Embracing Hope at Christmas

The death of Arthur Taggart comes as a terrible tragedy, but for none more so than his young daughter Sara and her mother. The kindly Doctor Goodard proposes a unique way of life.

When misfortune strikes again, however, young Sara has little choice but to accept the help of a woman no one has a kindly word for. In the home of Miss Thrip, Sara finds only misery, her mother confined to the hospital and hope in short supply.

After Sara finds a companion in the likable Henry Fisher, she soon learns that life can still have its joys, particularly when the lighting of a Christmas tree grants her the wish of her dreams. It is not only Sara who finds hope at Christmas when other surprises unfold.

"Embracing Hope at Christmas" and all Catharine Dobbs' novellas are wholesome Victorian Romances.