The Christmas Keepsake

"After losing one of her longtime, favorite patients, Nurse Mallory Blue takes some much-needed time off in order to rethink her life. She decides to finally clean out her grandmother's old theater, where Christmas was brought to life on stage each year. As she's organizing her grandmother's office, she finds a box of Christmas ornaments and a notebook detailing which memory was captured with each. It's a love story told in ornaments-a story her grandmother, who has Alzheimer's, is unable to tell. As Mallory packs up Nan's things and prepares to sell the theater, she runs into a huge problem. Hollis Franklin is a big believer in second chances. Growing up in foster care, Hollis found life-long friends who he now runs a construction crew with. Hollis would love to help Mallory get the theater back into tip-top shape, but he thinks the community theater should re-open, not close for good and be sold. Nan always made sure the kids in foster care were involved in the community plays, and some of Hollis's best childhood memories are wrapped up in this beloved space. Determined, Hollis makes Mallory a deal that she can't refuse. He'll do the construction work on the theater for free if Mallory will step into her grandmother's shoes this holiday season and put on one last Christmas theatrical, in the hopes that one last will turn into one more.."--

Annie Rains is a USA Today bestselling author of small-town contemporary stories full of hope and heart. After years of dreaming about becoming an author, Annie published her first book in 2015 and has been chasing deadlines and creating happily ever afters for her characters ever since. When she isn’t writing, Annie is usually spending time with her family or reading a book by one of her favorite authors. Annie also enjoys spending time with her three attention-hungry and mischievous rescues, which inspire the lovable pets in her books.