The Christmas Box/Timepiece/The Letter (Hardcover)

This glowing novel of loss and healing carries us back into the lives of the characters who have become nearly as real and precious to us as family. The Letter opens 19 years after the death of David and MaryAnne Parkin's daughter, Andrea, when MaryAnne discovers a letter left at the base of the angel statue that marks her child's grave. She shares the letter with her loving but estranged husband, David, who knows in his heart that the letter is from the mother who abandoned him as a child. David embarks on a journey to find his mother, but instead finds himself -- returning the joy to a marriage that has suffered from the loss of their child.

It is within the final pages of this beautiful novel that David and MaryAnne face love's greatest challenge. And in finding life's true meaning, they learn the lessons that are echoed throughout The Christmas Box story.