“Did you forget?” I say. “My family survives on this stuff.”

In the town below, I can see the flickering bonfire where Mom, Dad, and some of my best friends in the world are keeping warm. Maybe they’re looking up here right now. If they are, I hope they’re smiling because I’m smiling right back.

“Dance with me?” Caleb asks.

I hold out my hand. “We may as well practice.”

He takes my hand, spins me around once, and then we move together. The Christmas lights sparkle on my trees, which dance along with us in the gentle wind.

THE END

The Nice List

Ben Schrank, publisher, and Laura Rennert, literary agent

for being with me wholly since Book 1, and for being my insecure-author therapists as needed


Jessica Almon, editor

when I questioned, you believed; when I was done, you rightly pushed for more “It reminds me of a Taylor Swift song!”


Mom, Dad, and Nate (and my cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, neighbors, friends…)

for my childhood of holiday magic


Luke Gies, Amy Kearley, Tom Morris, Aaron Porter, Matt Warren, Mary Weber, DonnaJo Woollen

my guiding angels


Hopper Bros.—Woodburn, OR

Heritage Plantations—Forest Grove, OR

Halloway’s Christmas Trees—Nipomo, CA

Thorntons’ Treeland—Vancouver, WA

for tours of your Christmas tree farms and answers to professional, personal, and silly (but legit!) questions

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