One December Morning

Zoe Ellison has ridden the same December train for eleven years, chasing a picture book her grandmother once bought for the town library. She never expected to remember a stranger's face from a station bench for a whole year—or to find him sitting across the aisle the next December. Leo Dayton came back to Barton Cove to make peace with his father and the lighthouse he abandoned. Neither of them planned on staying. Both of them might have to.