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A clean coastal romance about second chances, trust, and finding home when you least expect it.

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A note from Angie

I wanted to write a town I would want to wash up in after a hard year - somewhere that decided joy should not have to wait for the right season. That is how Harbor's Hope got a Christmas festival in the middle of July: a whole community being a little stubborn about hope.

Margot was the first character who showed up, clipboard already in hand, fighting a puddle of melting fake snow and absolutely refusing to lose.

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Margot's Christmas-in-July Itinerary

If you want to understand Margot Pine, you do not need her whole backstory. You need her clipboard. Here is the festival run-of-show, margin notes and all.

Evergreen Tide Resort - Christmas in July - Run of Show

  • 7:00aSnow machine test on the boardwalk.Note: "snow" is soap. The gulls have opinions.
  • 9:00aLobby tree raising.Sand-weighted base this year. We learned.
  • 10:30aBakery delivery - lighthouse cookies, 12 dozen.Hide three dozen from the staff or there are none by noon.
  • 12:00pLobby snowfall.$300 of powder. Lasts four minutes. Worth it.
  • 5:00pLights on the masts, harbor-side.Boats still out. String them anyway.
  • 7:30pTree on the sand, lit.This is the one that makes people go quiet. Leave room for quiet.
  • 9:00pCocoa stand by the water.Iced cocoa. It is July. We are not monsters.

Evergreen Tide Lighthouse Cookies

The sugar cookie the resort kitchen guards like a state secret. It is not a secret. It is butter, and patience.

You will need:

  • 1 cup salted butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • Simple icing: powdered sugar, milk, vanilla, and a little red food coloring

Directions:

  1. Cream the butter and sugar until pale. Beat in the egg and vanilla.
  2. Stir the flour, baking powder, and salt together; add and mix just until it comes into a dough. Chill 30 minutes.
  3. Roll 1/4 inch thick, cut into lighthouses or stars. Bake at 350 F for 9-11 minutes, until the edges barely turn gold.
  4. Cool. Ice in white and a stripe of red. Eat one warm anyway, before the icing sets. Margot would.

That is the festival, more or less. The rest of it - the part with the boardwalk, the recognition, and the long summer that follows - is in the book.

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