A heartwarming and inspirational Christmas novel in the tradition of The Christmas Box, The Gift , and The Christmas List .
And things that should have..
Things that never should have been hidden.
This much I know: too many things were kept secret in those days.
Still, there are things that become clearer to me as I grow older.
My memory, like my eyesight, has waned with age.
I pray I can still get the story right.
The experience of that winter has grown on my soul like ivy climbing the outside of a home, growing until it begins to tear and tug at the brick and mortar.
We can bury the past, but it never really dies.
As I begin to write, a part of me feels as if I am awakening something best left dead and buried, or at least buried.
And when she was gone my innocence left with her.
She was a runaway who taught me more about life than anyone has before or since.
She was a little match girl who could see the future in the flame of a candle.
My first love.
She was my first kiss.
The New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box and The Walk series returns with a holiday novel of hope, love, and redemption.
A heartwarming and inspirational Christmas novel in the tradition of The Christmas Box, The Gift , and The Christmas List
