An Angel's Touch - Hardcover

Pozzessere, Heather Graham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0821751263 ISBN 13: 9780821751268

Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp, 1995

Synopsis

To earn their permanent wings after dying on Christmas Eve, probationary angels Cathy and Don Angel are given the task of performing three miracles by midnight and become entwined in the lives of several strangers in desperate need of divine intervention.

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About the Author

Heather Graham is both a national and New York Times bestselling author.

Reviews

Don and Cathy Angel are an enviable New York couple?he's a successful lawyer, she's a rising interior designer?until a deadly car accident on Christmas Eve turns them into a couple of angels. In the crowded, misty corridors of the afterlife, ruled over by a God who's depicted as a celestial CEO, they take a meeting with the angel Gabriel. Acerbic and businesslike, with a taste for Versace suits and stretch limos, Garbriel briefs the couple on procedure: to earn their wings, they must perform six Christmas miracles by midnight. Equipped with paranormal powers, Don and Cathy return to Earth. In Boston, they help unite a hard-drinking man with his long-suffering wife and aid an elegant bag lady; in Florida, they offer comfort to a terminally ill nun, who is afraid to die, and to a suicidal young angel expert who needs a reason to live. Returning to New York, the angels face their ultimate test. Cramming a plethora of miseries into her slender tale, Pozzessere, who writes contemporary romances under that name and historical romances under the pseudonyms Heather Graham and Shannon Drake, veers unevenly between the sad circumstances of characters at various nadirs and the forced comic mayhem of the yuppie couple trying to get an afterlife. While some heartwarming moments seep into the hackneyed scenes, this novel is, for the most part, an ill-conceived exploitation of the angel craze that pulls sentimental strings as shamelessly as it does spiritual ones.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Accidentally killed on Christmas Eve, Cathy and Don Angel are given a chance to achieve angelhood by performing three miracles each before Christmas Day. Their success is predictable, although the end result may be a surprise. Pozzessere (Slow Burn, Mira, 1994) gives a unique portrayal of the heavenly realm featuring a yuppie angel Gabriel. The realistic, punchy dialog is a plus for this short contemporary, with occasional flashes of humor, healthy doses of sentimentality, and tidy solutions to a series of standard holiday crises (e.g., a homeless woman, a family of unwanted children, a drunken father, a suicidal, blind teacher). Despite this slim hardcover's price, fans will most likely request it. Pozzessere also writes historicals as Heather Graham and Shannon Drake. She lives in Miami, Florida.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821751263
• ISBN 13: 9780821751268
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 188