Christmas Past: When the Power of Love Reaches Across Time - Hardcover

Robert Vaughan

3.52

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9780785262350: Christmas Past: When the Power of Love Reaches Across Time

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0785262350 ISBN 13: 9780785262350

Publisher: Thomas Nelson Inc, 2003

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With their marriage in jeopardy, T.J. and Madison Carmichael take their children to a Victorian bed-and-breakfast for one last family Christmas, and seem to be transported to another time and place.

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About the Author:

Robert Vaughan is the author of more than 250 published works including The Valkyrie Mandate, which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and Andersonville, which was made into the popular TNT television mini-series. He has written westerns, romances, historicals, and adventures. A retired military officer with tours in Vietnam, Korea, and Germany, Vaughan has received the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. Vaughan and his wife, Ruth, live in Gulf Shores, Alabama, where he is actively involved as a lay minister at Holy Spirit Episcopal Church.

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In this cloying novella, T.J. and Madison Carmichael, both high-powered entertainment brokers in Nashville, take their children to a remote bed-and-breakfast for Christmas, trying to hide the fact that their marriage is on the skids. But the innkeepers are not just dressed in period costume; their world is that of 1893, and the Carmichaels begin to suspect that they have bypassed a cozy historical re-enactment for the actual 19th century. (The outdoor privies are a big hint.) The novella's Victorian details are historically accurate, but the era is painted in an entirely romantic fashion, with cardboard characters who seem to have stepped directly from a Currier and Ives print quoting scripture. T.J. and Madison are better drawn, with sharp edges and a suggestion of smoldering marital resentment-though their children are implausibly mature and pious. Overall, there's a little too much sugar in this batch of nog.
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