WINTER STREET

Bestseller Elin Hilderbrand's first Christmas novel: a family gathers on Nantucket for a holiday filled with surprises.

Kelley Quinn, owner of Nantucket's Winter Street Inn, is the proud father of four children - Patrick, Kevin, Ava, and Bart, all grown and all living in varying states of disarray. The first three - or "the olders," as the family calls them - are Kelley's children by his first marriage to the now famous nightly news anchor Margaret Quinn, while Bart, his youngest, is the product of his second marriage to Mitzi. Spending the holidays with friends and family on Nantucket is a Quinn family tradition, and Kelley is looking forward to welcoming one and all to the annual Winter Street Inn Christmas party. But when he walks in on Mitzi kissing Santa Claus - aka a longtime inn guest named George sporting a Santa suit for the party - chaos descends. With the three "olders" each reeling in their own personal dramas and Bart on a dangerous military mission in Afghanistan, it might be up to Margaret to save Christmas at the Winter Street Inn. Elin Hilderbrand makes us fall in love with the delightfully crazy Quinn family as we see them through a love triangle, an unplanned pregnancy, a federal crime, a small house fire, many shots of whiskey and endless rounds of Christmas caroling. Elin Hilderbrand is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels Beautiful Day, Summerland, Silver Girl, The Island, Castaways, A Summer Affair, and Barefoot. There are over two million copies of Elin Hilderbrand’s novels in print and her sales continue to grow. Her books have been published in sixteen foreign countries. She is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.