A Home for the Holidays

A witty,warmhearted novel about coming to terms with grieftaking a chance on unexpected connectionsand finding family in time for the holidays For wedding singer Mel Hartthe holidays have always retained a certain magic. Her motherConniealways managed to pull off spectacular Santa hijinx that convinced Mel to keep believing in Santa way longer than other kids. Those moments meant everything to Mel because the rest of the yearlife was unpredictable because of her motherΓÇÖs alcohol use. But two weeks before ChristmasMel gets a call from the hospital: her mother has died. Then a woman shows up on Mel’s doorstepclaiming to be Connie’s estranged best friendpromising to tell Mel a different narrativeΓÇöone in which Connie was almost a famous country music starif only a man hadn’t gotten in the way. Instead of spending Christmas alone in her dead mother’s houseMel agrees to stay with Barb for the holidaysfinding herself in the middle of Barb’s complicated family and uncovering secrets while fighting an attraction to BarbΓÇÖs in-the-middle-of-a-divorce son. As Christmas approachesMel reckons with how little she knew about her mother’s past while reexamining her own future. A Home for the Holidays is a moving exploration of complicated griefmother-daughter relationshipsloving someone with addictionand the redemptive power of opening one’s heart to love in all its forms.