The Christmas We Almost Missed

Clara Bennett can organise a wedding in a snowstorm. Facing the man who broke her heart might be harder.

Clara has a plan: return to Bellweather, put her late mother's struggling inn up for sale, and get back to her carefully organised life in the city.

Then Owen Reed opens his mouth.

Eleven years after family obligations pulled them apart, her first love is still infuriatingly charming. He's also the carpenter helping prepare the inn for its next owner, which means avoiding him is officially off the schedule.

When a snowstorm strands a houseful of guests and leaves a bride without a venue, Clara offers to host a Christmas Eve wedding. Suddenly, she and Owen have a celebration to save, a building full of unfinished jobs, and far too many opportunities to remember why they once worked so well together.

The teasing comes easily. So do the feelings she thought she'd packed away.

But Christmas won't last forever. When the roads reopen, Clara will have to decide whether she's ready to leave again, and whether either of them knows how to ask the other to stay.

A heartwarming, closed-door Christmas romance featuring second chances, small-town charm, playful banter, and an inn full of unexpected guests.