by Lisa Wingate
Book 1 in the Outer Banks series (2014)
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
A Christmas novella set on the Outer Banks. A story of love, loss and finding oneself again. The story of a young military widow and her son finding themselves again after the loss of their husband and father. The proceeds of this book go to Operation Military Kids. A charity that helps military children while their parents are deployed.
From morose to hope to joy in only five short chapters, this book has a little bit of everything.
Tiff is a widow with a 3-year-old boy. She avoids Christmas because her husband, Aaron, was shipped home from Afghanistan at Christmas. She goes to Outer Banks to escape the holiday with her son Micah.
A young widow with a little son has been struggling to get over the death of her husband in Afghanistan. Every year she goes away around Christmas with her boy so that she doesn’t have to celebrate the festivity that reminds her of how her husband arrived home at Christmas in a coffin. But this year everything will change…