December 24th. Present day. As MADISON KNIGHT contemplates Christmas in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, she’s dead broke, and eviction looms. Her only chance to pay her bills rests on the New Year’s bonus from Once Again Antiques—if she can hold onto her consulting job for that long. One more misstep, one more unsatisfied customer, and she’ll be looking for employment elsewhere.
While working from home, she takes a call from ZACH MURDOCK, a local rancher. Through a mix-up, the antique store purchased his ninety-two-year-old grandmother’s beloved painting. GRAN believes the artwork has the power to transport a person to another time. Zach’s committed to returning the canvas to her by Christmas day.
Hoping to patch up the sales blunder, Madison …show more content…
Nineteen seemed a lifetime ago. Married and pregnant, she bought the painting for four bits at a thrift store on December 24th. Afterward, as she admired the painting, time changed, and in an instant, she saw a family at a cabin on her ranch. Back in her present, she miscarried and never had children. As time passed, she became convinced the journey only existed in her imagination. Yet, in her golden years, on another Christmas Eve, she time traveled a second …show more content…
She pats the frame like an old friend and tells them a story. At the age seventy-two, and a widow, she returned to 1875. She found the cabin heavily damaged from rocks and snow. (Historical records would show an avalanche had hit the area.) Although a beeping sound scared the bejeebers out of her, she found a tiny hand holding a watch, sticking out of the snow. The child, an eight-year-old boy, survived. He told her his name, Shawn Zachary Murdock, and that a beautiful woman named Madison Knight gave him the wristwatch. With the boy’s parents dead, she wouldn’t leave him there alone. They return to her present—only the child has no memory of his past. She bought phony documents, making herself his guardian. The lies continued, one to cover the other, and once the lies got their grips on her, it became impossible to take them back. Shawn becomes known as
While working from home, she takes a call from ZACH MURDOCK, a local rancher. Through a mix-up, the antique store purchased his ninety-two-year-old grandmother’s beloved painting. GRAN believes the artwork has the power to transport a person to another time. Zach’s committed to returning the canvas to her by Christmas day.
Hoping to patch up the sales blunder, Madison …show more content…
Nineteen seemed a lifetime ago. Married and pregnant, she bought the painting for four bits at a thrift store on December 24th. Afterward, as she admired the painting, time changed, and in an instant, she saw a family at a cabin on her ranch. Back in her present, she miscarried and never had children. As time passed, she became convinced the journey only existed in her imagination. Yet, in her golden years, on another Christmas Eve, she time traveled a second …show more content…
She pats the frame like an old friend and tells them a story. At the age seventy-two, and a widow, she returned to 1875. She found the cabin heavily damaged from rocks and snow. (Historical records would show an avalanche had hit the area.) Although a beeping sound scared the bejeebers out of her, she found a tiny hand holding a watch, sticking out of the snow. The child, an eight-year-old boy, survived. He told her his name, Shawn Zachary Murdock, and that a beautiful woman named Madison Knight gave him the wristwatch. With the boy’s parents dead, she wouldn’t leave him there alone. They return to her present—only the child has no memory of his past. She bought phony documents, making herself his guardian. The lies continued, one to cover the other, and once the lies got their grips on her, it became impossible to take them back. Shawn becomes known as