THE KEEPER OF LOST WISHES

Every December, thousands of letters addressed to Santa Claus pass through dead letter offices across the country. Undeliverable. Unread. Meant only for children.

Mara Whitfield has spent six years reading them anyway.

Working the night shift at Atlanta's dead letter annex, Mara has a secret nobody knows: she can hear the wishes hidden inside the letters adults write in secret, the ones they'd never admit to sending. A dying man's brother. A mother's unspoken fear. A little girl's wish that her uncle simply not be sad. One by one, anonymously, Mara has been answering them.

Then a machine jam delivers a letter that stops her cold, written in the handwriting of the man who left her at the altar nine years ago without a word of explanation.

As Mara races to unravel the truth behind Eli's disappearance, she's pulled into the fight for a family running out of time, a mentor with one unspoken wish of her own, and a building counting down its final days before closing forever. What she discovers will force her to answer the one wish she's spent a decade too afraid to make: her own.