The Last Gift of Christmas

A Novelette

Worried about her marriage, Cynthia Charles accompanies her workaholic husband and his business partner to Upstate New York, where the two men hope to land a crucial software contract in Albany. While they focus on work, Cynthia sets out on a personal quest—driving to a quaint Vermont village where generations of her family once lived. Her goal is simple: to find the headstone of her great-great-grandmother, the woman she was named after.

But when a minor accident leaves her stranded in a blizzard, Cynthia finds unexpected shelter in the village church house. There, with the help of a kindhearted caretaker and his wife—and an old letter discovered from a long-departed ancestor—she finds the strength to face her husband, and together, take the first steps toward healing their troubled marriage.