Elin Hilderbrand spent her summers on Cape Cod, "playing touch football at low tide, collecting sea glass, digging pools for hermit crabs, swimming out to the wooden raft off shore. She moved to Nantucket in July of 1993, took a job as "the classified ads girl" at a local paper, and later started writing. Hilderbrand's novels have all been set on and around Nantucket Island where she lives with her husband and three children. She was born and raised in Collegeville, Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and was previously a teaching/writing fellow at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Kelley
Quinn is the owner of Nantucket's Winter Street Inn and the proud father of
four, 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, 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.