This Christmas season, a journalist returns to the small town she abandoned years ago—and uncovers the secrets of her mother’s past and the truth behind Cranberry Cove. Elena Vasquez’s once-promising career as a war correspondent ended in disaster. Eighteen months ago, she lost her job at CNN and was quietly blacklisted from the industry she loved. Now she’s washed up in Queens, scraping by on freelance gigs and waiting for something, anything, to change. Then, on Thanksgiving Day, a phone call shatters her stagnant life. Her estranged mother has collapsed during Millbrook’...