title: A Miracle Under the Christmas Tree: Real Stories of Hope, Faith and the True Gifts of the Season
author:  Jennifer Basye Sander 
description: Jennifer Basye Sander is the author and co-author of over 50 titles, including the New York Times bestseller Christmas Miracles (1997). Sander and her books have been featured on CNBC, CNNfn, The View with Barbara Walters, C-Spans Book TV, and Fox News, among others. Articles about Sander have appeared in People, USA TODAY, the New York Post, the Chicago Sun-Times, Cosmopolitan, the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times, among others. Visit her at WriteByTheLake.com.
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  All he wants for Christmas...
  
  
  Widower Luke Forrester’s fortune can’t buy happiness, but he’s counting on it
  to give his twin daughters the magical Christmas they deserve at Poppy Gold
  Inns. Activities director Carlie Benton, with her upbeat seasonal spirit,
  definitely isn’t impressed by money. She’s all about holiday cheer and he
  can’t resist.
  
  
  While Luke and Carlie try to restore the sparkle in his kids’ eyes, the heat
  between them melts the winter chill. And in the season of miracles, anything
  is possible—including a tempting second chance at love.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Luke released a harsh breath as he watched Carlie walk away.
  
  
  While he’d already noticed she was attractive, this time her appeal was
  striking a primal chord.
  
  
  There was nothing indifferent about Carlie; she was passionate, vital and far
  more beautiful than he’d recognized at first. She reminded him of being in the
  desert after a spring