THE KEEPER OF LOST WISHES
A NovelBy REGINALD A. ROSCOE
Length3h 9m
About this audiobook
Every December, thousands of letters addressed to Santa Claus pass through dead letter offices across the country. Undeliverable. Unread. Meant only for children.
Mara Whitfield has spent six years reading them anyway.
Working the night shift at Atlanta's dead letter annex, Mara has a secret nobody knows: she can hear the wishes hidden inside the letters adults write in secret, the ones they'd never admit to sending. A dying man's brother. A mother's unspoken fear. A little girl's wish that her uncle simply not be sad. One by one, anonymously, Mara has been answering them.
Then a machine jam delivers a letter that stops her cold, written in the handwriting of the man who left her at the altar nine years ago without a word of explanation.
As Mara races to unravel the truth behind Eli's disappearance, she's pulled into the fight for a family running out of time, a mentor with one unspoken wish of her own, and a building counting down its final days before closing forever. What she discovers will force her to answer the one wish she's spent a decade too afraid to make: her own.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, General Fiction, Fantasy
Length3 hrs 9 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 25, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Keeper of Lost Wishes
2Introduction
3Chapter 1: The Building That Swallows Christmas
4Chapter 2: What the Building Keeps
5Interlude: How They Met
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6Interlude: The Ones Before
7Interlude: The Machine That Shouldn't Jam
8Chapter 3: The Woman Who Wanted an Hour
9Chapter 4: The Return Address
10Chapter 5: Nine Years, Seven Months
11Chapter 6: The Man Who Kept the Secret
12Interlude: Walter's Amends
13Chapter 7: Millbrook Lane
14Chapter 8: What He Never Got to Say
15Chapter 9: The Letter She Never Sent
16Interlude: Small Mercies
17Interlude: The Nurse Who Never Slept
18Chapter 10: Tuesdays
19Chapter 11: What the Shelter Allows
20Interlude: A Room at the Shelter
21Chapter 12: The Fund
22Chapter 13: Nineteen Days
23Interlude: Corinne and Marcus
24Chapter 14: The Call at 4 A.M.
25Interlude: What the Building Remembers
26Interlude: Theodore's December
27Chapter 15: The Last Letters
28Interlude: The Neighbor Who Kept Watch
29Chapter 16: What She Was Afraid to Ask For
30Interlude: The Ring
31Interlude: What Grief Teaches
32Chapter 17: The Last Night
33Interlude: Nine Years, His Side
34Chapter 18: Christmas Eve
35Chapter 19: One Year Later
36Chapter 20: The Wedding
37Chapter 21: Five Years Later
38Conclusion
39Acknowledgments
40About the Author
41A Conversation with the Author
42Reading Group Guide
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