She came looking for a story. He was trying to leave. Christmas had other plans.

Samantha Hale has one week to find a missing rock star.

Silas Hart has vanished from public view, and the trail leads to a snow-covered harbor town on the Nova Scotia coast. Samantha expects secrecy, stubborn locals, and a career-making story.

Jeff Bull came to Peggy’s Cove to escape a grief he couldn’t outrun. Now he’s packing up his veterinary practice and heading home to Los Angeles, determined to leave nothing behind that might make goodbye harder.

Then Samantha walks into his clinic wearing expensive boots, carrying an injured stray, and asking far too many questions.

As Christmas draws closer, Samantha finds herself pulled into a small town where everyone knows everyone, nobody gives up a secret easily, and belonging has very little to do with blood.

But the story she came to find is still waiting.

And when Samantha finally discovers the truth, she’ll have to decide what matters more: the career she’s spent years chasing, or the people who trusted her enough to let her in.

Because in Peggy’s Cove, Christmas has a way of making room for people who thought they were only passing through.

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