An Angel's Touch
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
A tale of loss, love, and heartwarming holiday miracles from a beloved New York Times–bestselling author.
Thirty-something Cathy and Don Angel seem to have it all. But tragedy strikes when, driving from New York to New England on Christmas Eve, they are involved in a catastrophic accident—with no survivors. Halfway to heaven, they are visited by the angel Gabriel, who tells them both that they must perform three miracles by midnight to complete their journey. To do so, Cathy and Don must get inextricably involved with the lives of several desperate strangers, all afflicted with unique miseries, and all in need of divine intervention. On this dark and silent night, these six individuals will discover that as long as miracles can happen, hope will never die.
From a master novelist known for both romance and suspense, including such bestsellers as Haunted Destiny and Let the Dead Sleep, this is a humorous, touching Christmas story featuring "a unique portrayal of the heavenly realm" (Library Journal).
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Heather Graham including rare photos from the author's personal collection.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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.
