the Christmas You Ran Village Inn: A Cozy Adventure Where Choose Story

You came to run your great-aunt's village pub for a fortnight. Then it snowed, and a stranger knocked, and the whole of Christmas became yours to decide.Little Wickham in December is not the green village you half remember from childhood summers. It is cold and lit gold at every window of the Green Man, where your great-aunt Sadie rules from a fireside chair and has just handed you the keys. You are only meant to mind the place until her hip mends. You are meant to be on the Sunday train.Then, three nights before Christmas, a young woman knocks at the door. She is soaked through, heavily pregnant, and looking for a man called Robin who told her he came from here. The village goes quiet the moment she says his name. The snow is closing the lane. And the best room in the house is yours to give, or to keep.This is an interactive novel, and every choice is yours. Give the stranger the good room, or hold her at arm's length until you know more. Chase the mystery the whole village is keeping. Check the old register, the photograph, the letters no one answered. Or simply keep one frightened girl safe through one hard winter. Perhaps you notice the quiet local man who mends your inn and asks nothing back, or maybe it is the traveller you notice more. The one the storm blows in and will take away again the moment the road clears. Follow the numbered choices through the carol night, the snowed-in inn, and the longest night of the year.There are seventeen ways this Christmas can end. Some are golden, some are sweet, some ache a little. And, one stays hidden until you've kept every small thing the winter hands you. There is no wrong way through.Perfect for readers who love: - Cozy, gentle stories - English villages, snow, warm inns, and buried secrets, with no gore and no grim stakes- Interactive, choose-your-path fiction written for grown-up readers- A slow-burn mystery, two possible romances, and a solo path every bit as satisfying- Books you can read again and again and experience a different Christmas every time- A warm, giftable Christmas escapePour the tea. Lift the latch. The winter is yours.Begin at section one.(You do not need to have read Book One, The Summer You Owned a Cottage, first - but if you have, you'll know why the gate sings.)