But 12 days before Christmas, presents begin appearing on her doorstep with notes from their “True Friends.” As the Smiths came together to solve the mystery of who the gifts were from, they began to thaw out from their grief and come together again as a family. The novel tells how this family overcame their grief enough to carry on but only with some rather unconventional help.įor readers of Richard Paul Evans and Greg Kincaid comes The 13th Gift, a heartwarming Christmas story about how a random act of kindness transformed one of the bleakest moments in a family’s history into a time of strength and love.Īfter the unexpected death of her husband, Joanne Huist Smith had no idea how she would keep herself together and be strong for her three children–especially with the holiday season approaching. Her eldest teenage son agreed with her, but her two youngest children as well as her ‘true friends’ certainly did not. Jo lost her husband in September 1999 and was determined to ignore Christmas completely that year. This book is the true story of exactly this experience. You try your best to ignore it, but worst of all, your 10 year old daughter is constantly asking you to buy a Christmas tree and start decorating the house. Everywhere you go there is happiness in the form of Christmas music, decorations and lights. Imagine you have lost your husband of 20 years three months previously, and its Christmas time.
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