GRR Reviews Annie's Gift: A Rocky Hill Holiday Novella by Barbara Bretton

Annie's Gift is a Christmas Redemption Story featuring a bit of supernatural. And it's a real tear jerker too. It is not a romance, but it is about love.

Harry Barnes does not hate Christmas... He simply wished it to be over. His wife and daughter are gone. He can't bear to think of them, so he won't. He hadn't spoken to his son, Sam, in years. Elsewhere, Sam Barnes had moved his family around the world for his military duty, but now he's back to stay, but his father still won't talk to him. When his own daughter Riley wanted to meet grandpa, he couldn't refuse. On a snowy Christmas Eve, Harry and Sam, father and son, are visited by the spirits of mother and daughter, who only has a few earthly hours to bring this broken family back together...

It's basically a Christmas Carol, albeit kinder and gentler, where the two ghosts are there to make the two men see the errors of their ways. it's sad, it's sentimental, it'll likely make you reach for Kleenex (tm), as the ghosts have to reveal some secrets that will cast all the men's decisions in a new light... and make them see family is a bond that endures.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Can two ghosts bring estranged father and son back together and reunite a broken family?

Overall Rating: 4/5

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