Tragedy turned into hope

The story was inspired by “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens. In it a miser Scrooge is visited by four ghosts: his partner with a warning and the ghosts from Christmas, past, present and future. He learns a valuable lesson that changes his life.

In this book the power of ghosts to communicate with the living is taken from Dickens.

“Tackling Molasses Crinkles” is a supernatural romance novella available at http://goo.gl/B7lKMs and other distributors in ebook format and in an anthology print “A Hint of Vanilla” with three other supernatural holiday stories.

This book came out of the tragedy of Sandy Hook where first graders were killed in their classrooms. I wrote a column about how parents had purchased presents for their children, but they would never be opened. But the presents represented lives that would never reach their full potential. What if one of these children would have discovered a cure for cancer or written beautiful music or been a doctor who saved lives? No one would ever know what could have been.

The holiday story is filled with hope as two strangers meet on Christmas Eve and discover secrets from their past.

Blurb: While delivering freshly baked cookies to her elderly neighbor, Crystal sees a shady stranger inside the house and sneaks to the back door to determine if he’s friend or foe.

Nick catches sight of a suspicious person outside and thinks it’s a porch pirate looking for Christmas packages. He drives the thief to the ground with a football tackle. Only his victim is his hostess’s neighbor, stunned by the force of the impact and furious about her broken cookies.

After this cute-meet gone wrong, can these two adversaries find common ground and discover the tragic secrets that have brought them together?

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