Starry Night / Debbie Macomber / 243 pages / Patridge in a Pear Tree Christmas Challenge

Carrie Slayton works as society editor for the Chicago Herald.  She wants to cover regular news stories and perhaps become an investigative reporter.  Her editor tells her that if she can track down the elusive, reclusive author of Alone, a bestselling book on survival and get an interview with him, she can have her pick of assignments.  Carrie succeeds where others have failed...in more ways than one.  Finnegan Paul Dalton steals Carrie's heart in the Alaskan wilderness.  Resolution of past hurts and reconciliations bring special meaning to this particular Christmas Day.