With Love

Someone has been paying attention.

Nora Callahan has no time for Christmas magic.

She has a bakery to save, two hundred gingerbread stars to make, a radiator with opinions, and an eighteen-year-old golden retriever who has appointed himself Director of Quality Control. Three years after losing her grandmother, Nora is determined to keep the Sugar Maple Bakery alive, even if it means doing absolutely everything herself.

Then the gifts start appearing.

A tin of rare plum tea she mentioned wanting months ago. A hand-carved maple whisk made precisely for the way she works. Small, thoughtful things that couldn't have come from someone who merely knows Nora.

They came from someone who notices her.

Naturally, Nora decides to investigate.

Her prime suspect? Ellis Vance, the quiet woodworker two doors down who fixes things she hasn't asked him to fix, drinks his coffee black, and has spent four years becoming an unexpectedly steady part of her life. Ellis also happens to have a workshop full of maple, suspiciously talented hands, and an infuriating ability to reveal absolutely nothing.

As Christmas approaches and the mystery deepens, so does something Nora has worked very hard not to examine: the possibility that the person who knows her best may have been standing just across the street all along.

But with the bakery in trouble and the life her grandmother built threatening to slip away, Nora will have to decide whether holding everything together means doing it alone...or finally letting someone love her enough to help carry it.

Warm, funny, and tender, With Love is a small-town holiday romance about handmade gifts, old grief, new beginnings, and the terrifyingly wonderful feeling of being truly seen.