The Lantern House

A Second Chance Christmas Romance

By: Nora Ashford

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Twelve years ago, Juniper Reade fled her small Vermont hometown with a shattered heart and a single question she never got answered: Why did he leave her? Now a successful Boston event planner, she has built a life far from Hartwell and the boy who broke her without explanation. But when the woman who was like a grandmother to them both passes away, Juniper is summoned home for the reading of a will that changes everything. Maggie left them the Lantern House Inn. Together. Equally. The catch? Juniper and Callum Frost must run the historic inn side by side through Christmas Day, or lose it forever.

Forced into close quarters with the man she has spent over a decade trying to forget, Juniper discovers that some wounds never fully heal, and some secrets are worth more than the silence that hides them. As the Winter Lights Festival approaches and old memories threaten to surface, the walls between them begin to crack. Callum is no longer the boy who walked away. He is a man carrying a burden she never knew existed, a truth that could either destroy them or finally set them free. With a developer circling the struggling inn, a community counting on them, and a love that refuses to stay buried, Juniper must decide: Is she brave enough to risk her heart again? Some places hold onto love until you are ready to claim it.