Silver Bells: A Short Story

By Ashley Sargeant Hagan

Hilarious adventures in Christmas shopping! Three customers will stop at nothing to win the elusive Silver Bell Sunday gift certificate. A down-on-her-luck teacher, a savvy businessman, and a cut-throat professional shopper all vie for the prize. Who will win in the end, and

• Language: English
• Publisher: Inkwell Literary Press
• Release date: Dec 10, 2018
• ISBN: 9780578432311

Ashley Sargeant Hagan

Ashley Sargeant Hagan has the mind of Agatha Christie with the soul of Mark Twain. She writes mysteries with a literary twist, and sometimes something completely different! Originally from Lakeland, Florida, she is a long-time resident of Nashville, Tennessee, where she lives with her musician husband and three children. She loves cats, mysteries, history, and tea, and serves as the chapter president of Sisters in Crime of Middle Tennessee. When she's not writing, you'll find her involved with Historic Nashville and volunteering for the Land Trust for Tennessee's Glen Leven Farm.

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Isobel pulled her hat down closer over her ears as she stood outside the store window, looking in. She felt like all those children you see at the beginning of Christmas movies, gazing in wonder at the toys in the toy store. Only this window didn’t have toys.

Or maybe it did, Isobel realized. Grown-up toys. There was a pretend bed covered in a beautiful comforter, with piles of pillows begging for someone to knock them onto the floor as they snuggled