Long Way Home

Three days before Christmas, Ethan Cole wants only one thing: to make it home.Then he stops for Mara Bennett.Stranded at a rural gas station with a dead car and a winter storm closing in, Mara needs a ride north. Ethan reluctantly agrees, expecting a few awkward hours with a stranger before they go their separate ways. Instead, the storm worsens, the roads disappear beneath the snow, and they discover a wrecked van abandoned along a lonely back road.Inside is Lucy, a frightened eight-year-old girl hiding beneath a seat with a wrapped Christmas present and a warning that someone is coming for her.Suddenly, getting home no longer matters.Pursued across frozen highways, isolated forests, small towns, churches, cabins, and snowbound back roads, Ethan and Mara must keep Lucy alive while uncovering why her father entrusted her with evidence powerful people are desperate to recover. Along the way, two strangers who have spent years protecting themselves in very different ways begin to discover something neither expected to find in the middle of a blizzard.Each other.The Long Way Home is a cinematic Christmas adventure-romance filled with suspense, survival, small-town warmth, humor, danger, found family, and a slow-building love story about the people who stay when the road changes.Because sometimes home isn't the place waiting at the end of the road. Sometimes it's the person who takes the long way with you.