“This tender love story between two wounded people whom God brings together for healing is a book readers will love anytime-but especially at Christmas!” -Francine Rivers, New York Times bestselling author of Redeeming Like and A Voice in the Blowing wind

Amid war and the fading imagine the Confederacy, a wounded soldier and a destitute widow discover the true meaning of Christmas-and sacrificial love.

Lately widowed, Aletta Prescott struggles to carry life about Christmas at Carnton: A Novella jointly for herself and her six-year-old son. With the bank threatening to evict them, she discovers an advertisement for the Women’s Comfort Society public sale and applies to get a position-only to find it’s been loaded. Then a possibility ending up in a wounded soldier offers another opportunity-and friendship. But can Aletta trust this man?

Captain Jake Winston, a revered Confederate sharpshooter, suffered a head wound in the Battle of Chickamauga. When doctors deliver their medical diagnosis, Jake fears losing not only his best skill but his very identity. As he heals, Jake is usually ordered to aid with a local Women’s Relief Society public sale. He respectfully items. Kowtowing to a couple of “crinolines” isn’t his notion of soldiering. But orders are orders, and he shortly discovers this band of ladies-one, in particular-is a lot more than he bargained for.

Set against the setting and history of the Carnton Plantation in Franklin, Tennessee, Xmas at Carnton is a tale of wish renewed and beliefs restored at Christmas.