It is that time of year when I enjoy a quick dip into the world of the Christmas novel. Gretchen has moved to be closer to her mother. She is not doing it to help her mother, but just the opposite. Gretchen is now a single mother with two children who are missing their father. In the condo next door lives Melissa. She is very abrupt, unfriendly and just down-right weird. One day a man knocks on Gretchen's door to see if she knows where Melissa lives. He is trying to find her to break the news that her mother has died and she has one week to clean out the apartment or he is throwing everything away. Melissa is at work and the man asks - well actually tells Gretchen that she needs to pass on the message. No way does Gretchen want to undertake that task. She avoids it for a while but eventually she does. Turns out Melissa and her mother weren't exactly close and she has no intentions of cleaning out the apartment. Eventually Gretchen talks her into doing it by offering to help her. Thus begins a rocky 'friendship' of sorts. It is a short book, so try to put a little Christmas magic on your reading list. Tis the season.
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