New, feel-good Christmas novel offered free

Streator, IL, USA—Mary's Christmas Gift, a new, contemporary Christmas novel, is being offered free on the Web beginning today.

The lead in the book, Mary Chapman, an executive at a breakfast cereal company, finds herself 34 years old, unmarried, and nine months pregnant at Christmas time. When Mary puts her baby up for an unusual adoption, miraculous things start to happen. A mysterious stranger shows up to rescue her after a winter car accident, and events fall into place like pieces of a puzzle. After the adoption, Mary discovers that her prayers are answered in unexpected and spectacular ways.

Jack Zavada, author of Mary's Christmas Gift, has had four western novels published in paperback: Rebel Town, The Wolfer, Penwhistle's Prize, and West of the Pecos. This is his first work written from a woman's point of view.

"Readers might see similarities to 'It's a Wonderful Life,' but from the perspective of a single woman. It's a story most of us can identify with," Zavada says.

"All of us feel, from time to time, that our lives are crushingly ordinary. We schlepp from work to home and back, without much to look forward to. But in an instant, something incredible can happen and you're never the same again."

Mary's Christmas Gift, in PDF format, is available through free download—nothing to sign up for—at Zavada's web site: http://www.inspiration-for-singles.com/mary.html.

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