The Christmas Clock - Softcover

Perseus

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593155476 ISBN 13: 9781593155476

Publisher: Vanguard Press, 2009

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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 fianc�, 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 adoresone 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?

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About the Author:

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 prestigiousRomantic Times Magazine Career Achievement Award. She currently resides with her husband, Larry Jay Martin, in Missoula, Montana.

From Publishers Weekly:

In this yuletide yawner, young Teddy Winters is being raised by his grandmother, Lottie, who is stricken with Alzheimer's. While she seeks a guardian for her grandson, two Dreyerville couples overcome their own obstacles: the Culvers have been married for decades, but they have let a distance grow between them. Meanwhile, Joe Dixon and Sylvia Winters were young lovers, but they let secrets tear them apart. With Christmas just around the corner, these six people's lives intersect as they struggle for second chances at marriage, love and family. It's standard-issue sentimental holiday fare, peopled with wholesome and one-dimensional caricatures, though, notably, there's no late-book miracle. It has plenty of competition with other seasonal titles, and there's little to distinguish this from the others. (Oct.)
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