Paper Angels: A Novel

Kevin Morrell is a forty-three-year-old husband and father who runs a successful design and marketing firm that's crashed into the suffering economy. Attempting to navigate the busyness of the mall at Christmas,Kevin is humbled when he stumbles across the Salvation Army's Angel Tree Project. His wife insists that hetakea paper ornament.

The name on the ornament is ThomasBrandt, a fifteen-year-oldstill reeling from the implosion of his familyfrom years of verbal abusefrom an alcoholic father to a mother who finally left him behind, only to findherself andher childrenpenniless and struggling. The only thing has allowedLynn to survive is her faith. Thomasshares that faith, but he also wonders why God has seemingly abandoned them.

This is the story about a man and a boy one December. A man whose life is changed by a simple expression of kindness, and a boy who takes that expression of kindness and shows the true meaning of Christmas.