The Last Starlight Wish: The Audrey Stone Havenbrook Christmas Romance Series, Book 6

A myth-busting historian and the heir to a beloved Christmas legend clash when she’s hired to audit his Cornish town’s “Starlight Wishes” tradition. As Jade digs into Victorian ledgers and secret love letters, Hugo fights to protect the Winter Market that keeps Havenbrook alive. Enemies-to-lovers sparks, small-town Christmas charm, and a heartfelt story about truth, community, and choosing your own miracle.

Cornwall’s brightest night hides a kinder secret.

Jade arrives in Havenbrook clutching a leather-bound journal and a controversial theory that could rewrite the Cornish town's beloved Christmas legend. As a historian specializing in debunking romanticized local myths, she's been hired by the council to investigate the true origins of the town's famous "Starlight Wishes" tradition—a centuries-old Christmas Eve ceremony that supposedly grants one true wish to a deserving couple each year. But her academic mission to expose the tradition as Victorian tourism propaganda puts her directly at odds with the man whose family fortune was built on it.

Lennox Tennyson isn't just Havenbrook's most successful dentist—he's the descendant of the Victorian entrepreneur who allegedly discovered the tradition and turned the town into Cornwall's premier Christmas destination. His state-of-the-art practice overlooks the harbor where the ceremony takes place each year, and his considerable wealth quietly funds most of the town's holiday celebrations. When he learns that Jade's research could destroy the magic that defines his hometown—and tarnish his family's legacy—he's determined to charm, distract, or outmaneuver her at every turn.

Their battle of wits begins with Lennox volunteering as her "local liaison," insisting he's merely protecting historical accuracy while actually trying to steer her away from damaging discoveries. Jade sees right through his expensive suits and practiced smile, recognizing a man desperate to preserve a profitable fairy tale. But as they traverse hidden archives in manor houses, decode cryptic church records, and uncover love letters buried in museum collections, they stumble upon a truth neither expected—one that's more extraordinary than any legend.

Working through frost-covered mornings and by candlelight when winter storms knock out power, their academic sparring transforms into something dangerously personal. Lennox begins to see past Jade's scholarly armor to the woman who chose history because she never had roots of her own. Jade discovers that Lennox's dedication to tradition stems not from greed but from a promise to his late grandmother, the last true believer in the family.

As Christmas Eve approaches and the truth about Havenbrook's tradition threatens to change everything, Jade and Lennox must decide what matters more: the facts that divide them or the connection that's grown between them. Because sometimes the most powerful magic isn't in ancient ceremonies—it's in choosing to believe in love when logic tells you not to.

A sparkling enemies-to-lovers romance about the collision between truth and tradition, perfect for readers who love their Christmas stories with intelligence, passion, and just a touch of genuine mystery.