The Christmas Clock - Softcover

Perseus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 159315593X ISBN 13: 9781593155933

Publisher: Vanguard Press, 2010

Synopsis

From New York Times bestselling author Kat Martin comes and inspiring holiday story of vows broken and love redeemed, of courage and strength, all wrapped in a memorable tale that will resonate long after the book is over.Teddy Winters was eight years old that Christmas, too young to understand all the undercurrents swirling around him in the tiny Michigan town of Dreyerville.He wasn’t able to value that Christmas for the miracle it truly was.Teddy only knew he wanted to buy the beautiful Victorian clock in the window of Tremont Antiques as a gift for his grandmother, Lottie Sparks, a woman desperate to find him a home before her rapidly progressing Alzheimer’s left him an orphan.Teddy didn’t know that in trying to buy the clock he would meet Sylvia Winters and Joe Dixon, a couple, once in love, desperate to overcome the past. He didn’t know he would form a friendship with his neighbors, Floyd and Doris Culver, two people struggling to revive their long-dead marriage.He didn’t know that these people would fill his Christmas with magic and hope; that the love of his friends would change his world, and that he would forever change theirs.

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About the Author

Kat Martin is the New York Times bestselling author of over forty bestselling novels in a variety of genres including historical, romantic suspense, and contemporary. Over eleven million copies of her books are in print. She lives with her husband 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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About this edition

• Publisher: Vanguard Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 159315593X
• ISBN 13: 9781593155933
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 206