Tomorrow's Destiny: A Victorian Christmas Novella

Written by Hope Tarr

Narrated by Leanna Renee Hieber

Approaching her thirtieth birthday on Christmas Day, 1890, bookshop proprietress Fiona MacPherson is in danger of becoming a Scrooge on par with Mr. Dickens’ curmudgeon. With her beloved Da dead, she’s set to lose her beloved bookshop to a mysterious antiquities collector. Fortunately for Fiona, her guardian angel-in-training, Fern, is determined to set her stubborn charge’s life, and future, back on track. Masquerading as the Angel of Christmas Future, Fern has until the final stroke of midnight on Christmas to persuade Fiona to embrace her destiny, and her one true love.

Antiquarian Tobias Templeton has been cursed from birth with an unknown form of albinism, a condition that renders him unable to endure sunlight and overly sensitive to touch. For five years he’s been obsessed with an ancient Aristotelian text on alchemy; Tobias is convinced the book holds the key to his cure. Unfortunately, it was snatched away at auction by MacPherson, a Scottish bookseller and rival collector. Five years later, success is in sight! Tobias has the deed to MacPherson & Daughter Booksellers in his pocket.

When Tobias shows up on Fiona's doorstep on Christmas Eve to claim his property, will her scheme to save her shop, and his certainty that his condition makes him unlovable, keep them apart? Or will they embrace the magic of the holiday season and accept the destiny that eluded them five years ago?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bryant Street Publishing
• Release date: Dec 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781094400389

Hope Tarr

Hope Tarr is the award-winning author of twenty-five historical and contemporary romance novels. She also writes screenplays as Hope C. Tarr – Stolen Kiss with Emmy Award-winning producer and director Linda Yellen is in development – and women’s historical fiction as Hope Carey. Hope is a founder and curator of the original Lady Jane’s Salon® reading series in New York City. Launched in 2009, the Salon donates its net proceeds to the NYC charity, Women in Need, Inc. Visit Hope at her website at www.HopeCTarr.com and follow her on Instagram @hopectarr and Twitter @hopetarr.