Christmas Eve at Friday Harbour

About this book

Mark Nolan's happy-go-lucky bachelorhood is interrupted by the death of his sister and his subsequent guardianship of her six-year-old daughter, Holly, who is traumatized into muteness and desperately seeking a maternal figure. Enter Maggie Collins, a toy shop owner who lost her own husband to cancer.

Subjects

  • death
  • family-owned business enterprises
  • fiction
  • mate selection
  • mothers
  • orphans
  • restaurants
  • uncles
  • vineyards