When Christmas Brings You Home: A Small-Town Romance

Lucia Romano left Bellavista more than twenty years ago and built a successful life and career in Toronto. She has never regretted leaving-and when she returns home in December to help her father recover from knee surgery, she fully intends to leave again after Christmas. Then her father volunteers her to help revive Bellavista's long-forgotten Christmas Wishes Festival. Working on the festival brings Lucia back into the orbit of Adrian Moretti, a talented restoration craftsman she knew growing up but never truly knew. Adrian built his life in Bellavista, while Lucia built hers elsewhere. Yet as they work side by side beneath Christmas lights and falling snow, their friendship turns into something neither expected. But Lucia's Toronto career-and an exciting new opportunity in New York-are waiting. Adrian has a life and business of his own. Neither wants love to require the other to become smaller or surrender everything they have built. As Christmas Eve approaches, Lucia must reconsider what it really means to come home. Perhaps belonging doesn't require choosing between the life she created and the people she loves. And perhaps home can be more than one place-especially when there is someone willing to meet you along the way. A warm, mature Christmas romance about family, belonging, unexpected love, and discovering that sometimes coming home doesn't mean going backward-it means finding another place where your heart belongs.