Workaholic Henrietta Wegner can feel her edge beginning to dull in
middle age. Once the company's hottest mergers and acquisitions
executive, Henri can see the ambitious and impossibly young
up-and-comers gunning for her job. When her boss makes it clear she'll
be starting the New Year unemployed unless she can close a big deal
before the holidays, Henri impulsively tells him that she can convince
her aging parents to sell Wegner's--their iconic Frankenmuth, Michigan,
Christmas store--to a massive, soulless corporation. It's the kind of
deal cool corporate Henri has built her career on.
Home for the holidays has typically meant a perfunctory twenty-four-hour
visit for Henri, then back to Detroit as fast as her car will drive her.
So turning up at the Wegner's offices in early December raises some
eyebrows: from her delighted, if puzzled, parents to her suspicious
brother and curious childhood friends. But as Henri fields impatient
texts from her boss while reconnecting with the magic of the store and
warmth of her hometown, what sounded great in the boardroom begins to
lose its luster in real life. She's running out of time to pull the
trigger on what could be the greatest success of her career...or the
most awkward family holiday of her life.
Unabashedly charming, The Wishing Bridge is full of the humor and
heart fans of Kristy Woodson Harvey, Nancy Thayer and Jenny Colgan love
most.
