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The Gift

A Short Story

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The Gift

By: Freida McFadden
Narrated by: Alyson Krawchuk
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It’s Christmas Eve and Stella Hansen is broke. She is so broke that despite working two jobs, she can’t even afford a present for her husband on their first Christmas as man and wife. But then a mysterious storekeeper at a pawn shop offers Stella an intriguing trade. Stella wants more than anything to buy her husband the Christmas gift of his dreams. But will it come at a terrible price?

©2022 Freida McFadden (P)2023 Hollywood Upstairs Press Genre Fiction Holidays Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense
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Felt like I could have saved the credit. Old story retold with a slight twist

Retold story

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I enjoy Freida McFadden very much and so I did this book, however I felt a bit cheated for it's a very short story for the credit paid.

short story

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Love this r but not his was not a great story and was over before it started. Had I realized it was less than 2 hrs I would of saved my credit.

Waste of a credit

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Very disappointed last time I preorder from this author. Not very original and not much time for any back story.

Short and boring

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I got this because it was on my bucket list to read all of her books but I’m just so upset how short this is. I read it in 35 min and it has a lot of potential that was ended too soon.

Eh.

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Horrible version of The Gift of the Magi. Disappointing ending that turned dark too quickly.

Horrible

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kinda mad I spent $5 on this to be honest. this should have been free

not her best

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Not worth my hour. Sorry. Great beginning, grabbede right away. when I saw 10 minutes left I was like, um, ok. Reep what you sew lesson not really needed.

disappointed

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The gift was not as thrilling as Frida McFarlane’s other books. I hope there is a sequel.

The gift

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WHY WAS THIS SO SHORT? Didn't like that at all. Did you do this on purpose?

How short it was

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