Nora Caldrin

Where winter
keeps its secrets.

A Christmas story about second chances, difficult letters and a little unexpected magic.

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Cover: Mara holds a letter and exchanges a look with Elias, who carries firewood, beneath the northern lights. The title is The Christmas Reply by Nora Caldrin.

The Christmas Reply

A Christmas in Talvela novel

Some wishes are easy to answer. Some change everything.

After her divorce, Mara Ellison comes to Lapland hoping for a quiet Christmas and one wonderfully unreasonable decision. An unexpected detour brings her to Talvela, a small village with a long table, a family full of secrets and an unexpected job answering letters sent to Santa Claus.

Then one letter refuses to stay the same. As Mara works alongside Elias, the man she thought she had left behind at the holiday hotel, she begins to wonder what an honest reply can really do.

A grown-up Christmas romance with a touch of magic.

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A note from Nora.

Nora Caldrin writes grown-up Christmas romance inspired by Northern Europe and the magic of Lapland. Her stories are about second chances, unexpected connections and finding warmth in unlikely places.

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