First published 2009
Hope Jensen has built the life she wanted. Two years after finding her biological mother Marianne on Christmas Eve at Chuck's Chicken n Biscuits, she writes for a family magazine and runs the Christmas Jars Ministry from the restaurant. She dates a marketing executive long distance. Her organized chaos feels perfect as another Christmas approaches. Then Thanksgiving weekend arrives. The Maxwells bring in a nephew to run their furniture restoration business, and Hope cannot stop thinking about him. A mysterious stranger appears at the diner, offering to help with the ministry but hiding his true motives. Two men want to change Hope's life before Christmas Day ends. Hope must navigate these competing forces while discovering how a simple jar can heal wounds and how forgiveness sometimes requires the greatest courage of all.
Genres: romance, christian-fiction, contemporary-romance, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, second-chance
Setting: Chuck's Chicken n Biscuits, Christmas Jars Ministry
Period: Christmas, Thanksgiving
197 pages · Hardcover · Shadow Mountain