The year is 1874. It is April in Chicago. Instantly you will be on Miss Althia Heathley’s side & hoping her father’s new wife trips herself — any place, anywhere but preferably at the top of a long flight of stairs. Her life has been miserable since her father remarried and it only took four months. And when she isn’t miserable, she is bored. Oh, she makes up stories in her head for the novel she wants to write, but her life is a “prison”. Which is why she secretly responded to an advertisement in her father’s discarded newspaper.
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“A novella is a short novel, that is, a narrative prose fiction whose length is shorter than that of most novels, but longer than most short stories. No official definition exists regarding the number of pages or words necessary for a story to be considered a novella or a novel.” ~ Wikipedia
The Amish Author’s Christmas
by Ashley Emma Ivy Everwood is an author. When she meets with her literary agent, Meg, about her newest book, Ivy is told her writing has grown stale and the publisher won’t touch it. The plot is formulaic. The scenes are repeats of her previous work. Meg won’t even accept a new outline. Meg tells…