Debbie Macomber Books

In the first of the two stories gathered under *Country Proposals*, we meet a woman who carries both strength and sorrow — the quiet resilience of someone who has seen too much loss. Whether she is widowed or has simply been left behind by life, her story opens with solitude. Promise, Texas, seems a...

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The second story in *Country Proposals* begins not with loss, but with return. The protagonist here is a man or woman who has been away — perhaps chasing ambition, or perhaps running from the ghosts that linger in a hometown. When they come back to Promise, everything feels both familiar and changed...

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Sometimes we have to leave our ordinary routines before we can clearly see what has been missing in our lives. At the start of Dear Santa, Lindy Carmichael comes home to Wenatchee carrying exhaustion, disappointment, and the private shame that often follows a year gone wrong. Her plans have unravele...

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The dreams we abandon do not disappear; they often linger quietly beneath our daily choices, influencing our happiness more than we realize. One of the most moving elements in Dear Santa is Lindy’s encounter with the gap between the life she imagined and the one she is living. Her return home stirs ...

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Hope rarely begins with certainty; it often begins with a small, almost embarrassing act of belief. In Dear Santa, Lindy’s mother encourages her to write a new letter to Santa. For a grown woman wounded by real-life setbacks, the suggestion sounds childish at first. Yet this gentle, symbolic gesture...

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The past can wound us, but it can also restore us when it is held in a loving context. A major source of warmth in Dear Santa is Lindy’s reconnection with her family, especially through shared holiday traditions and remembered rituals. As she helps her mother sort old letters and decorations, memory...

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