NOVEMBER 4, 2025

Sometimes the road back home leads you straight to your heart.

Florence MacLeod has zero interest in going home for the holidays. But returning to Christmas Island, Cape Breton is unavoidable when she’s promised to help plan her cousin’s winter wedding. A decade after she left, there’s no real home to return to—only the grief she never faced after her mother’s death. Then on her first day back, Florence has an infuriating run-in with Alistair Campbell, the rugged, frustratingly handsome Scottish police officer who's made himself at home in her hometown. And it turns out Alistair is tangled up in her past in ways she never expected.

As wedding arrangements kick into high gear, Florence keeps crossing paths with Alistair—from the pub to the post office to cold plunges in the icy Bras d’Or. What starts as irritation melts into banter, then something warmer, as his steady presence nudges her toward facing the grief she’s kept buried for so long. With the end of her holidays near, Florence must decide, for a second time, whether to leave the shores of Christmas Island behind or finally open her heart to the one place that’s truly felt like home.