Season of Love

Miriam Blum returns to Carrigan’s to mourn the great-aunt she loved. She plans to sit shiva and go home. The will complicates her exit by leaving her a share of the family’s Christmas tree farm, a Jewish-run business with a precarious future. Noelle Northwood has spent the years of Miriam’s absence making a life at Carrigan’s. From where Noelle stands, an heir who can walk away again is hardly the person to trust with its future. Keeping the farm open gives them an urgent reason to work together. It also gives Miriam time to get to know the woman who stayed, and Noelle a chance to ask why Miriam left.