A Time for Angels

by Sandra Petit

Gail Sattler

Book Cover Description:

Special Angels stir up love in the hearts of two couples at Christmastime.

Moira Sullivan has been secretly crocheting angels and then delivering them anonymously to hard-working staff members of her church. Secretly, that is, until Joe Corrigan finds out and threatens to blow her cover. The only way she can keep him quiet is to grudgingly accept his help and hope that their good deeds remain anonymous. Will the time they are forced to spend together forge a serious relationship between them or create a distance that will never be bridged?

Kim Warner has tried to get boy-next-door Trent Johnson's attention for years, but he's never taken her seriously. When Kim has only one week to make a few hundred beaded angel ornaments as favors for everyone attending the annual church Christmas party, Trent offers to help. The only problem is he ends up making a difficult situation even worse. At the end of the party, will their two hearts be stripped as bare as the Christmas tree?

In the presence of angels, will these hearts accept God's message of love and open to each other? (c) book cover, A Time for Angels, 2005

I quite enjoyed these two novellas in A Time for Angels. Because novellas are short and need to be brief, the love stories often feel "compacted" and almost unrealistic in how quickly the characters fall in love. Although one can almost never get away from that feeling, I felt that the authors did these stories justice. I found them entertaining, engaging and memorable. A good holiday read.