The Twelve Keys of Christmas

Christmas in Pinehaven was supposed to be temporary.

Eliza Wren has returned to her charming Tennessee hometown for one reason: sort through her late grandmother’s belongings, settle the family mercantile, and leave before Christmas. She has a carefully planned life waiting for her—and no intention of reopening old memories.

Then she finds the first key.

Her grandmother’s final message is simple…and impossible to ignore.

There are twelve keys.

Each opens something that has been waiting to be discovered.

And Eliza must find them all before the Christmas Eve bells ring.

The first key leads to an unfinished piece of her father’s past. The next uncovers a forgotten Christmas tradition. Soon, old photographs, hidden letters, long-kept promises, and decades of quiet kindness begin revealing a story Pinehaven has nearly forgotten.

Unfortunately, Eliza isn’t supposed to solve the mystery alone.

Grant Holloway—the steady, quietly funny restoration expert whose family is tangled in the mystery right alongside hers—has been specifically instructed to help.

The more doors they open, the more Eliza realizes that the story she believed about her family may not be the whole truth.

Neither is the story she has been telling herself about home.

As Christmas draws closer, the twelve keys begin connecting two families, an abandoned train depot, an unfinished dream, and a secret tradition built on the belief that no one should stand on only one side of grace.

And somewhere between old mysteries, Christmas lights, community dinners, unexpected laughter, and one increasingly difficult-to-ignore man, Eliza begins wondering whether God might be opening a door she never planned to walk through.

But the twelfth key is still waiting.

And what it unlocks could change everything.

The Twelve Keys of Christmas is a heartwarming clean Christian Christmas cozy mystery romance filled with small-town charm, gentle humor, faith, family secrets, second chances, a slow-burn love story, and a Christmas mystery with no murder or violence.

Perfect for readers who love:

• charming small towns at Christmas

• clean, wholesome romance

• Christian fiction with natural faith

• intriguing mysteries without frightening danger

• hidden letters, old keys, and family secrets

• slow-burn romance and witty banter

• found family, community, forgiveness, and hope

• cozy Christmas stories with a deeply satisfying happily-ever-after