Nutcracker Sweet — Lynn Crandall

A year after her sister's death, Noël Hartley is haunted by memories of Christmas past. All around, life is going on, including all the happy celebrations of Christmas. Noël is having nothing of it, or the firefighter who failed to save her sister Regina from the deadly fire.Firefighter Jonah Grant is going through the motions of working and living his life. The night he fought a fire in Regina Hartley's house replays over and over, but always ends the same. He went into a fire to save her, but came out without her.A wall of pain keeps Noël and Jonah apart and alone in their suffering, though in mid-size Cranberry Cove they're finding it challenging to avoid one another. But when a stalker puts Noël's life in danger, Jonah has to find a way to prevent another tragedy and prove to her that their futures rely on facing the past.