Book Review: Maggie's Miracle

Many years ago, I read Karen Kingsbury's Red Glove series. Eager for the Christmas "feels," I picked up Maggie's Miracle. If I read this before, I didn't remember the storyline. It was a quick and easy read. At only 3-1/4 hours, I devoured it in only a handful of treadmill sessions.

Eight-year-old Jordan is grieving the loss of his father and feeling like a burden to his mother and grandmother. He writes a letter to God asking for a Christmas miracle. He wants his mother to believe in love again and he wants a daddy. When his mother chances upon an article about a program pairing adult volunteers with grieving children, she hopes it will change his life. She never dares to believe it will change her own, as well. Nor can she imagine the depths of prayer leading to these changes.

You can count on Kingsbury's Red Glove series for inspiration and Christmas charm. Perhaps I should revisit the rest of the series. Maggie's Miracle delivers a delightful little Christmas story (made into a Hallmark movie in 2017). It follows Gideon's Gift, the first book in the series. Yet, each is a stand-alone, so order is not absolutely necessary.