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About the Book…

Sylvia Winters just found a job and an apartment in her hometown of Dreyerville, Michigan, but she is hesitant to return. Eight years ago, she jilted her fiancé, Joe Dixon, telling him that she was moving to Chicago because small-town living was not for her. But she was lying. Syl was headed to Chicago to be treated for cervical cancer. Sadly, Joe never knew the real reason she left him. Confused and distraught, he turned to drinking to heal the pain, until he accidentally killed a man and served years in jail. Now Syl and Joe are both back in town, but it will take a miracle to bring them back into each other’s arms. Also in town is Lottie Sparks and her grandson, Teddy. Ever since Lottie’s daughter was killed in a drunk-driving accident, Lottie’s been in charge of Teddy. He appreciates her love more than she knows, so much so that the industrious eight-year-old hits up Joe’s auto body shop, so he can save enough money by Christmas to buy his grandmother a Victorian clock she adores—one that vividly reminds her of her childhood, even as the rest of her memories are slipping away with the onset of advanced Alzheimer’s. As spring turns to summer and summer to fall, matters in the Sparks’ household take a turn for the worse. And with winter approaching, will a little hope and a big dose of Christmas magic be enough to make everything all right again?

With Teddy’s grandmother’s Alzheimer’s progressing, he only had one thing on his mind, and that is to buy her the beautiful Victorian clock in the window of Tremont’s Antiques. At the time, Teddy didn’t know that in trying to buy the clock he would meet Syl and Joe, a couple, once in love, now striving to overcome the past.

Lottie Sparks, is a loving woman desperately trying to find him a home before her rapidly progressing Alzheimer’s leaves him an orphan. When she can’t take care of him anymore, he’s put into foster care. Joe wants to adopt Teddy, but doesn’t think he will be able to because of his past. This is a very touching novel where small town lives intermingle to leave you with a Charming Christmas ending!

About the Author, Kat Martin… Click on Kat’s Photo to learn more!

New York Times bestselling author Kat Martin is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she majored in anthropology and history. Kat has written over forty bestselling novels, including historical, romantic suspense, and contemporary. Over eleven million copies of her books are in print and her novels have been published in seventeen foreign countries. Among her many awards, she has won the prestigious Romantic Times Magazine Career Achievement Award. She currently resides with her husband, Larry Jay Martin, in Missoula, Montana.

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