| The Perfect Gift Contributor(s): Lacy, Al (Author), Lacy, Joanna (Author) |
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ISBN: 1590528395 ISBN-13: 9781590528396 Publisher: Random House Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2006 Annotation: As Jack and Julianna make their way back to Fort Bridger to announce their engagement they run across a couple stranded along the road, Matt and Emily McDermott, and their daughter Holly. Holly is six years old and bears a remarkable resemblance to Patty Ruth. When tragedy strikes and Holly dies of pneumonia Emily McDermott becomes mentally unstable and refuses to believe that Holly is dead. She heads out one day to find Holly and mistakes Patty Ruth as her dead daughter. Matt's heart is torn between his wife and the guilt of keeping Patty Ruth. He finally decides he must take Patty Ruth home on Christmas Eve. Hannah decides that God has given her the perfect gift this Christmas-to have Patty Ruth back. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Christian - Western - Fiction | Romance - Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 99011742 |
| Series: Hannah of Fort Bridger |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 5.19" W x 8.25" (0.83 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Holiday - Christmas - Religious Orientation - Christian - Theometrics - Evangelical |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Picking up where the fourth book in the Fort Bridger series leaves off, Jack Bower and Julianna LeCroix are making their way back to Fort Bridger to announce their engagement when they run across Matt and Emily McDermott and their daughter, Holly, stranded along the road. Jack and Julianna help the family travel safely to Fort Bridger, only for tragedy to strike when Holly dies of pneumonia. Emilly refuses to believe that Holly is dead. She heads out one day to find Holly and mistakes Patty Ruth, another child in the town, for her dead daughter. Matt's heart is torn between his wife and the guilt of keeping Patty Ruth, but through God's love, the broken Fort Bridger families will slowly start to heal. |