Christmas in Hawthorn Bay. Kathleen O'Brien

Mayor Nora Carson knows that council's plan to bulldoze the Killian family's mansion won't just stir up bad blood–it will attract the last person on earth she wants to see: Jack Killian. Run out of town when they were high school sweethearts, the big city lawyer is back to protect his turf–but what he'll find is Nora's eleven-year-old secret.Her worst nightmare is that he'll put two and two together and start asking questions. But there's no way she can tell him how she came to be a single mother. Or why her son has the Killians' blue eyes and curly black hair…