title: The Substitute Bride: A Novella (O' Little Town of Christmas)
author:  Carrie Fancett Pagels 
description: <span>In</span><i>The Substitute Bride</i><span>, author Carrie Fancett Pagels has writtenan enchantingholiday story guaranteed to warm the cockles of your heart in spite of the flurry ofsparkling, crystalline snowflakes dusting the town of Shepherd, Michigan.</span>As always, Carrie Fancett Pagels pens another delightful, heartwarming story of faith, hope, and healing--intertwining A Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful Life!<span>Carrie FancettPagels gives us a sweet taste of what it may have been like...in Christmas past.</span>
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  ALSO BY CARLA KELLY
  
  FICTION
  
  Daughter of Fortune
  
  Summer Campaign
  
  Miss Chartley's Guided Tour
  
  Marian's Christmas Wish
  
  Mrs. McVinnie's London Season
  
  Libby's London Merchant
  
  Miss Grimsley's Oxford Career
  
  Miss Billings Treads the Boards
  
  Mrs. Drew Plays Her Hand
  
  Reforming Lord Ragsdale
  
  Miss Whittier Makes a List
  
  The Lady's Companion
  
  With This Ring
  
  Miss Milton Speaks Her Mind
  
  One Good Turn
  
  The Wedding Journey
  
  Here's to the Ladies: Stories of the Frontier Army
  
  Beau Crusoe
  
  Marrying the Captain
  
  The Surgeon's Lady
  
  Marrying the Royal Marine
  
  The Admiral's Penniless Bride
  
  Borrowed Light
  
  Coming Home for Christmas: Three Holiday Stories
  
  Enduring Light
  
  Marriage of Mercy
  
  My Loving Vigil Keeping
  
  NONFICTION
  
  On the Upper Missouri: The Journal of Rudolph
  
  Friedrich Kurz
  
  Fort Buford: Sentinel at the Confluence
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  © 2012 Carla Kelly
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  No part of this book may be reproduced in 