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Mistletoe, Memories & Missing Letters
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 18 2026
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Bayshore Bluff Cozy Mystery
A beloved Christmas book. A letter lost for more than forty years. Two sisters who stopped speaking-and a small-town mystery that may finally reveal why.
Christmas has come to Bayshore Bluff, filling the little coastal town with twinkling lights, decorated storefronts, gingerbread houses, and enough holiday plans to keep Helena Blackstone busier than she ever intended.
At the Bayshore Bluff Inn, Margo Thorne is preparing an unforgettable Christmas Eve celebration. Violet Finch has turned gingerbread-house building into something suspiciously competitive, Zinnia Jax is adding her own artistic touch to the festivities, and Asher, Margo's tan-and-white Pembroke Welsh Corgi, remains convinced that every holiday gathering should include snacks for him.
Then Gloria Whitaker walks into Helena's bookstore, Second Chances & Sea Glass, hoping to find a copy of the beloved Christmas book her father read to her and her younger sister, Kate, every Christmas Eve when they were children.
Helena finds one.
But this isn't simply another copy.
It is Gloria and Kate's original childhood book.
Inside is an inscription written by their father in 1968:
To my girls-may you always find your way back to each other.
And tucked between its pages is something even more unexpected-a letter written more than forty years ago that Gloria never received.
The discovery raises questions neither sister can easily answer. Gloria and Kate haven't spoken in forty-three years, and each has spent those decades believing the other chose to walk away.
Now Kate is coming to Bayshore Bluff.
As Helena begins piecing together what happened during one long-ago Christmas season, memories conflict and old assumptions begin to unravel. A home renovation, forgotten family belongings, a mysterious loan, an old photograph, and a letter that may never have reached the mailbox slowly reveal a very different story from the one Gloria and Kate have carried all these years.
There is no murder to solve this Christmas and no dangerous villain hiding in the shadows. Instead, Helena finds herself unraveling a quieter mystery-how two sisters who once loved each other could lose forty-three years to something neither fully understood.
The mystery becomes unexpectedly personal when Helena's own sister, Marianne, arrives in Bayshore Bluff for Christmas. While the sisters continue rebuilding a relationship that has known its own share of distance and hurt, Helena begins to see that discovering what happened in the past is only part of finding a way forward.
With Sebastian nearby, Margo determined to create the perfect Christmas Eve, Violet defending the structural integrity of gingerbread, Zinnia keeping everyone laughing, and Asher carefully monitoring every unattended plate, Christmas in Bayshore Bluff becomes a celebration of family in all its complicated, imperfect, wonderful forms.
Warm, humorous, and filled with the charm of a small coastal town at Christmas, Mistletoe, Memories & Missing Letters is a heartwarming holiday cozy mystery about sisters, family secrets, forgiveness, second chances, gentle romance, and the memories that bring us home.
Perfect for readers who enjoy Christmas cozy mysteries, small-town mysteries, coastal cozy mysteries, clean mysteries, amateur sleuths, family mysteries, heartwarming Christmas fiction, second-chance family stories, lovable dogs, gentle romance, and cozy mysteries filled with humor, friendship, and holiday warmth.
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