In bestseller Elin Hilderbrand's first Christmas novel a family gathers on Nantucket for a holiday filled with surprises.
Kelley Quinn is the owner of Nantucket's Winter Street Inn and the proud father of four - Patrick Kevin Ava and Bart all of them grown and living in varying states of disarray.
As Christmas approaches Kelley is looking forward to getting the family together for some quality time at the inn. But when he walks in on his wife Mitzi kissing Santa Claus - or the guy who's playing Santa at the inn's annual party - utter chaos descends. With the three older children each reeling in their own dramas and Bart (a Marine) unreachable in Afghanistan it might be up to Kelley's ex-wife to save Christmas at the Winter Street Inn.
Before the mulled cider is gone the delightfully dysfunctional Quinn family will survive a love triangle an unplanned pregnancy a federal crime a small house fire many shots of whiskey and endless rounds of Christmas caroling in this heart-warming novel about coming home for the holidays.
Elin Hilderbrand is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Iowa Writers Workshop. The Academy is her thirty-first novel, and the first co-written with her daughter, Shelby Cunningham. Hilderbrand is the co-host of the podcast "Books, Beach and Beyond" along with @TimTalksBooks creator, Tim Ehrenberg. She is raising four young adult children and likes to spend her free time at the beach and on her Peloton. She's a grateful ten-year breast cancer survivor.
Shelby Cunningham was born and raised on Nantucket Island. She's a 2024 graduate of St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island.
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