Christmas is supposed to be the season of celebration, family, and peace, but tragedy doesn't celebrate holidays. The closeknit Baxter Family always makes time to share Christmas together, but this year multiple emotional traumas have taken away some of that positive spirit. With one family member killed in a car accident, leaving her young daughter orphaned, the remaining Baxter family wants nothing more than to make young Amy's transition into life without her parents as easy as possible.

But, when Amy finds out her mother Erin's heart went to a woman named Kendra, she is torn between meeting the woman holding an intimate tie to Erin and mourning her mom. John, Amy's grandfather, befriends Kendra and invites her and her husband Moe for Christmas with the Baxter family. The rest of the Baxter's do not share John's enthusiasm, and want to shield Amy -- and themselves -- from any more pain. It is just too soon. How can they look at this women and not miss Erin? John feels that if they all pray the answer will come to them.

Karen Kingsbury writes a very inspiration novel. I am not a very religious person, but this novel did make me think a lot. I am not sure if this was happened in my family if I could welcome this person into our lives.

Karen Kingsbury is such a great writer. I have never read any of her books before this, but I would really like to get a few and read more about the Baxter family. Karen makes them all so real. It was easy to put my own family's faces onto the Baxter characters, but they also stand out on their own as fully fleshed out people. I cannot wait to read more.