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Candace Hammond
​Candace Hammond grew up and still lives on Cape Cod, but will forever be considered a washashore for not having been born there. She is a journalist, playwright, and novelist, who also hosts an arts podcast/radio show on WOMR out of Provincetown, because people in the arts have the best stories. She is the mother of three adult children who are scattered around the globe, and grandmother to one amazing little girl. She lives with her musician partner and their very large cat on the Lower Cape.
Fiction | Cape Cod | Holiday | Cozy Read
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Christmas In Cranberry Harbor: Book 2 in the Cranberry Harbor Series
By Candace Hammond
paperback | 5.5 X 8.5 | 292 pages | October, 2024
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When Boston journalist Lizzie Martin returns to her Cape Cod hometown for Christmas, she’s faced with more than cocoa, cookies, and Santa arriving on a boat. Her ex-fiance, Jack, is also in town, her dad’s newspaper is struggling, her town is losing all its young people to opportunities and more affordable housing off-Cape, and climate change is rapidly eroding the coastline. Can two people who haven’t spoken to each other in three years find their way back to each other, work together to help change their town’s future and in doing so perhaps change their own?
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Fiction | Cape Cod | Small Town | Cozy Read
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Spring In Cranberry Harbor: Book 1 in the Cranberry Harbor Series
By Candace Hammond
paperback | 5.5 X 8.5 | 279 pages | May, 2025
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There are challenges to living in a seasonal community like Cranberry Harbor, especially for the young people who grew up there, trying to find their path now and help their communities grow and evolve with the times. Picking up a few months after Christmas in Cranberry Harbor ends, Lizzie Martin has returned to Cape Cod and is co-running the Cranberry Harbor Gazette with her dad, Peter. Thanks to an angel donor they are well-situated to keep telling the stories of their beloved community well into the future. Happily reunited, Lizzie and Jack seem to be on track to become engaged, but Lizzie has her worries, given their history. Jack has been very preoccupied with his proposed project for the town, and while most of Cranberry Harbor is on board, a couple of locals seem determined to undermine its success. Some folks just don’t like change. Moving back home isn’t always easy, but thankfully, Lizzie has a wonderful mix of old and new friends helping her make it home again, and with lots of hard work, and never giving up, it might just all work out.
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