The midnight before Christmas
(2012)

Fiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : No Publisher : Made available through hoopla, 2012
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781453277225 (electronic bk.) MWT11549736, 1453277226 (electronic bk.) 11549736
LANGUAGE
English
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On Christmas Eve, a lawyer helps a battered wife search for her kidnapped son As ex-husbands go, they don't get much worse than Carl. He's violent, drunken, and possessiveand worst of all, he's an ex-cop. Bonnie has remarried, and done everything she can to keep their son away from his father, but when Carl comes to terrorize themstinking drunk on Christmas Eveshe cannot call the cops for help. After years of living in fear, she visits a legal aid office to arrange a restraining order. But by the time the lawyer starts the paperwork, it's already too late: Carl has kidnapped their son. Bonnie's lawyer, an ex-priest named Megan McGee, has too much Christian spirit to turn the woman's case over to the corrupt local police. Together they comb the city in search of the boy, racing to find him before his father's affections become violent, and turn this white Christmas into a bloody one

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