The Carpenter's Miracle

Josh Carey is a small-town carpenter whose quiet life shatters when he pulls a drowned boy from a frozen lake—and the boy inexplicably revives at his touch. Branded a "miracle man," Josh is swarmed by reporters, including ruthless TV journalist Delia Tynan, who is determined to expose him as a fraud. As Josh falls for the boy's mother, Sarah, and struggles to pay for his ailing mother's care, a warm, wry Christmas story about faith, doubt, and second chances unfolds.

• A carpenter with the initials J.C. who lives in an old church accidentally becomes America's "Christmas Messiah"—and hates every minute of it.
• A feel-good Christmas miracle story with a sharp, funny satire of tabloid TV news at its heart.
• From an award-winning Hollywood screenwriter (Jesus, Nicholas' Gift): a warm holiday tale about faith, doubt, and the miracles we can't explain away.
• A skeptic's romance: the more Josh insists he's no miracle worker, the more the miracles keep happening.

“"I've been on the force twenty-two years, and I've seen a lot of strange things," said the policeman. "But this is the first time I've ever seen anyone rise from the dead."”

Perfect for a reader who loves warm, faith-tinged Christmas stories in the vein of a Hallmark movie and enjoys gentle satire of media culture alongside a clean romance.