It's Christmastime in New York City when the impossible happens. In a poor, basement apartment a puddle of water mysteriously freezes into a sparkling circle of dazzling ice. Hundreds of visitors are mysteriously drawn toward the gleaming mirage and what lies within. But why has this miracle appeared in Kelly O’Sullivan’s home just days before Christmas? And why will it melt at the stroke of midnight?
Kelly promised herself she would never be a chauffeur like her dad and grandfather, but she is desperate to provide for her three-year-old daughter, Rose. Rose’s medical bills are mounting and Christmas is coming. Kelly quickly lands a job, not because she’s qualified, but because nobody else wants it.
Her new client, Marcus Irving, is an egotistic billionaire, notorious for problems of his own. Although Kelly resigns to mind her own business, it is impossible to be stuck inside a Rolls Royce all day long without getting to know this family, quite personally: the quirky thirteen-year-old son, the pampered girlfriend, and the miserable dog walker. Secrets are shared and truths leaked by everyone, and Kelly quickly becomes not only their driver but their confidante, mentor, and even friend. At least to everyone but Marcus Irving. He prides himself on running his family like he runs his global company—but that is the very problem. Kelly sets out to prove him wrong, only triggering a life-threatening disaster.
Ridden with failure and guilt, Kelly returns home to her dilapidated basement apartment to find that stubborn puddle of city water is back again, but this time, it has frozen into a shimmering patch of ice. And what Kelly sees inside this Christmas miracle is beyond what she could ever imagine.
What hundreds of visitors, drawn to the scene, see inside this sparkling circle of ice will change their lives forever.
The Harbinger
coming February 2, 2027
In 1775, Irish immigrant Mary Jemison is taken from her cabin and adopted into the Seneca Nation of Indians. Forced into a family that is not her own, Mary wears the mask of an obedient daughter while secretly hoping to escape. But the deeper she is pulled into the unfamiliar world around her, the more unsettled she becomes, especially by her new sister, Lomasi. Quiet, watchful, and strangely different, Lomasi is determined to welcome Mary into this new family. Yet Mary cannot forget the family she left behind, or the sister waiting for her back home…where she belongs.
Suddenly tragedy strikes and everything changes. Broken and stripped of the last pieces of the girl she once was, Mary finds herself facing an impossible truth: the only person who can save her now is the one she loathed. Lomasi…her sister.
Within that fragile bond, Mary begins to release her guard and discover something beyond survival: a sense of belonging and community that she has never known before. In the colonial world that she left behind, women were expected to be silent and unseen. But among the matriarchal Seneca Nation, women are honored as leaders and decision makers.
For the first time in her life, Mary Jemison is allowed a voice. And with this voice, she does not just survive. She lives a life she never dreamed possible.