The McCormicks, Book 7

**New Updated Edition Available June 2026**

A first love. A letter forty years late. One Christmas second chance that won’t let them say goodbye.

Thirty-seven years ago, the love of my life walked away.

Last week, his letter showed up in my mailbox.

For almost four decades, I have been Maureen McCormick. Wife. Mother. Grandmother. The woman who held everything together, even when life kept taking pieces of me.

I never let myself wonder what happened to my first love. There wasn’t room.

Now I’m driving to a secluded mountain lodge two days before Christmas, chasing a letter I never expected to receive and a love I never truly stopped carrying.

The snow is falling fast. The road behind me is disappearing. And the man I’m about to see is the only one who ever knew the girl I used to be.

I don’t know if Adam wants a second chance. I don’t know if thirty-seven years is too long. I don’t even know if a woman my age is allowed to want something this badly just for herself.

All I know is, I came here for an answer.

But if I’m too late, I could lose more than the love I should have had. I’ll lose myself.