Marta loves her family’s new home on the shore of Lake Superior in Northern Minnesota. It feels so much like the seaside town she left behind in Norway.

But she misses her grandmother. And she misses the old traditions.

Fortunately, her grandmother sent her to her new life with one very important gift: her Yule log. Marta burns it on the darkest night of the year, hoping to feel just a little bit closer to the grandmother she left behind.

She succeeds, but in ways she never dreamed were even possible.

“The Yule Log,” a story of holiday traditions both old and downright ancient.