The Librarian and the Tree Farmer

Maya Santos has run the Holly Ridge Library since she was twenty-five — fierce, funny, and the town’s information network. But this December the furnace is dying, the council wants to cut the library to three days a week, and the only rescue on offer comes with a price: the town will fund the library only if the resort deal goes through, and the resort needs Miller’s north field. That field belongs to the valley’s oldest trees — and to Ben Oakes, the quiet Christmas tree farmer who has loved Maya for three years without saying a word. He shows it the way he shows everything: a pumpkin carved with her initials, a wreath hung straight on the library door, a calendar that sells out. A blizzard strands her bookmobile on a country road, and Ben comes to get her. Snowed in at the farmhouse, Maya finds a box of his father’s love letters — and the half-finished one Ben wrote her three years ago. A warm, wholesome Christmas romance about asking for help, showing up, and the love that was there all along. The Librarian and the Tree Farmer is Book 2 of the Holly Ridge Romance trilogy.