Donna Van Liere is well known for her holiday stories of faith, hope and love. This year, her offering is THE CHRISTMAS NOTE and it is truly a special, heartwarming story!
Moving any time of the year is stressful enough, but to move with Christmas coming up soon is especially hard for Gretchen Daniels. After tragedy visits her life, she feels the need to be closer to family, and has moved to be near her mother. Gretchen thinks she has it hard, but when she meets her next-door neighbor Melissa, a gal who seems to have no holiday spirit at all -- well, life doesn't seem quite so gloomy after all.
Melissa McCreary has a dull life. And when a new family moves in next door, it just drives home how much Melissa is missing -- family, friends, love. Then a knock on the door and a mysterious note changes Melissa's life and sets her off on a search for what may be a true Christmas miracle in the making. But will secrets kept for many years threaten to derail Melissa's desperate search, or will love show itself in unexpected places after all?
THE CHRISTMAS NOTE is a beautifully told story, with a special surprise twist at the end. As a quick read, this book will certainly warm up the Christmas spirit in your heart!
From author of The Christmas Hope series, which has enthralled millions of readers, comes a new inspirational novel about an unlikely friendship between two women, but one that will change each of their lives forever.
Gretchen Daniels has recently moved into an apartment with her two children to be closer to her mother, Miriam. She and her children are building a life together in a new community when a mysterious young woman, Melissa McCreary, moves into the apartment next to them. She has few possessions, little personality, and keeps to herself.
One day, a local landlord who is looking for Melissa knocks on Gretchen’s door for assistance. Melissa’s mother has died and in the coming weeks the landlord needs Melissa to empty her mother’s apartment. Gretchen reaches out and offers to help, but the apartment is a gut wrenching shamble of a home. There is little worth saving except for a few photos and a note that is discovered on the crate beside the bed. It is unfinished but in the two scribbled lines, Melissa discovers she has a brother and a sister that she never knew about. Even more shocking, she begins to uncover family secrets that show her who she really is.
Can two very different women embark on a journey that explores a long-buried need for forgiveness, hope, and redemption?
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