Christmas Star: A Novel

Thirty-four-year-old Gabe Rodriquez works in the maintenance dept of the Grandon Elementary School, where he often talks with seven-year-old Bella, a precocious young girl who has spent her childhood in foster care. Unbeknownst to Gabe, Bella is a mini-matchmaker, with her eye on just the right woman for Gabe at Glory's Place, the after school program she attends. When he attends the Glory's Place annual fundraiser, however, Gabe gets an unexpected surprise: the woman Bella wants him to meet is his ex-wife, Amy. As Christmas nears, Bella continues to push Gabe and Amy together, despite their protests. Although at first they are simply polite to each other for Bella's sake, as they start to spend more and more time together, they both begin to wonder: Could there be something more between them than years of heartache and broken promises?