Christmas Sisters

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202093 pages

Christmas Sisters is the prologue novella that opens Soul Sisters at Cedar Mountain Lodge, a connected holiday series written jointly by Tess Thompson, Judith Keim, Tammy L. Grace, Ev Bishop and Violet Howe.

A sudden accident takes Madeline Kirby's husband and only child. A school guidance counselor with nothing left but her work, Maddie decides to get through Christmas by easing someone else's pain, and takes in four motherless children for the holidays. What is meant to be a temporary arrangement changes all of them: defensive Stevie, distrustful Jo, delicate Alissa and small, frightened Hailey.

The novella establishes the four girls whose adult stories each of the five authors picks up in the books that follow, and the lodge that draws them back together. It is short, gentle and openly sentimental, written as an entry point rather than a standalone novel.

Avg. reading time: 1h 46m
Prose complexity: 1/10

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Ev Bishop

Ev Bishop is the author of Christmas Sisters. She writes fiction centered on family relationships and holiday themes.

Tammy L. Grace

Tammy L. Grace writes fiction focused on family relationships and holiday themes. She is the author of the book Christmas Sisters.

Violet Howe

Violet Howe is the author of Christmas Sisters. She writes fiction centered on family relationships and holiday themes.

Judith Keim

Judith Keim writes fiction focused on family dynamics and relationships. She is the author of Christmas Sisters and several other novels in the contemporary women's fiction genre.

Tess Thompson

Tess Thompson is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of contemporary and historical romantic women's fiction with over 60 published titles. She holds a BFA in Drama from the University of Southern California and turned to novel writing after a stint as a playwright. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, Cliff.

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Madeline "Maddie" KirbyProtagonist

A school guidance counselor and recent widow who fosters four girls over the Christmas holidays.

StevieSupporting

The defensive eldest of the four fostered girls.

JoSupporting

A distrustful girl slow to accept Maddie.

AlissaSupporting

The delicate one of the four sisters.

HaileySupporting

The youngest and most frightened of the girls.