Christmas Eve at Friday Harbour

Description:

Mark Nolan's happy-go-lucky bachelorhood is interrupted by the death of his sister and his subsequent guardianship of her six-year-old daughter, Holly, who is traumatized into muteness and desperately seeking a maternal figure. Enter Maggie Collins, a toy shop owner who lost her own husband to cancer.

subjects: Uncles,  Fiction,  Orphans,  Mate selection,  Family-owned business enterprises,  Vineyards,  Restaurants,  Mothers,  Death

Places: Washington (State),  San Juan Island