[Mandrake Falls 03] • The Way Home · Winter

It is almost Christmas. Mandrake Falls, Vermont is cocooned in a thick blanket of snow when Michael Shannon, the star of Tomorrow Never Comes is dropped like a bomb in the middle of the town's well-ordered lives. Michael Shannon would say her arrival is more like a shining star, and that if anyone is suffering from this community service sentence it is she. Hudson Grace would say that Miss Shannon has as much chance of learning the value of anonymity as she has of coaxing his three-year-old nephew to eat with a fork. The hellion has been Hudson's secret weapon in his war against commitment for two years.

That was then.

For the next seventy-two hours due to a bureaucratic mix-up, dedicated bachelor Hudson Grace is stuck billeting daytime diva Michael Shannon. A fire on the hearth. A raging blizzard. And a three-year-old holy terror. Who will crack first?