Lost on Christmas Ridge

Three years in hiding. One name on the mirror.

For three years, Caroline Danforth has been Nora Quill: the quiet baker at a snowbound Vermont inn, the woman who never talks about herself, the girlfriend of a fiddle-playing lineman from Maine who doesn't exist.

Then a guest vanishes from Room 6 in the middle of the night. When the shower steams the bathroom mirror, Caroline's real name appears in the glass. Only two people alive know that trick. One of them is her little sister.

Deputy U.S. Marshal Hal Brennick comes over the mountain road to move his witness before the storm closes it behind him. He doesn't make it out. Now he's snowed in at an inn full of Christmas guests, with a town that has decided he's "Jack," a cat he's supposed to be allergic to, and orders to take Caroline away for good the moment a helicopter can fly.

But Caroline won't leave without her sister. And somewhere in Christmas Ridge, between the cookie swap and twelve nights of lanterns on the ridge, someone has been waiting a very long time for her to be found.

How do you stay hidden in a town that knows everyone's name?

Lost on Christmas Ridge is a small-town Christmas romantic suspense with fake dating, a grumpy protector hero, one bed in a blizzard, sisters, a fair-play mystery and a whole town that refuses to let her go. A standalone with a happily ever after and no cliffhanger.