title: In Time for Christmas -- a Novella
author:  Heather Blanton 
description: I started writing when I was five; my first tale was a ghost story that my mom typed up for me on a Brother typewriter. Over the years, I have worked as a journalist for newspapers, magazines, and blogs. I have also spent decades in the corporate communications field, marketing everything from software to motorcycles. (Did she really just say "decades"?) I grew up on a steady diet of Bonanza, Gunsmoke, and John Wayne Westerns. My most fond memories are of sitting next to my daddy, munching on popcorn, and watching Lucas McCain unload that Winchester! I love exploring out West and would happily spend all my time researching and exploring ghost towns till the cows come home. I live with my husband and two adventurous boys on a farm outside Raleigh, NC. They enjoy riding practically anything with four legs or two wheels, and being outdoors.
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  In Time for Christmas (2009)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Katie Flynn
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Random House (2010)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Addy and Prue Fairweather live with Nell, their widowed mother, in a flat
  above her shop on the Scotland Road. The sisters, however, are very different.
  Addy is dark-haired, plain and always in trouble whereas Prue is flaxen-
  haired, blue-eyed and as angelic as her looks imply. To make matters worse,
  Nell makes no secret of her preference for the younger girl, increasing Addy's
  jealousy and resentment.
  
  
  
  
  
  On the other side of the coin, Giles Frobisher and his twin sister, Gillian,
  live in a crumbling mansion near the sea in Devon. The family have lost most
  of their money in the Depression, so Giles leaves university and joins the
  Fleet Air Arm. He meets the Fairweather girls briefly on a visit to Liverpool
  but they lose touch. When they meet