Christmas Every Morning — Lisa Tawn Bergren

"As I wove through the tense strands, I thought of Mother and what her weaving would be like. I believed that on top it would hold light, promising color, that farther down it would depict the Alzheimer's knots that tied up her mind and memory, the encroaching darkness of life slipping away, the shading of hope dimmed. But I began to spot some curious color in her weaving too, color I would never have imagined there."

TWO LOST SOULS
In Colorado, history professor Krista Mueller awaits news of her mother's death. It has been more than a decade since Alzheimer's disease first claimed a part of Charlotte Mueller's mind and memories. But Krista cannot forget the pain of her childhood. Nor can she face the dying woman who has -- despite Krista's desperate attempts to gain her love -- always been far beyond her daughter's reach.

ONE LAST CHANCE TO BE FOUND
Then a call from New Mexico launches Krista on a dramatic journey of discovery -- a journey that helps her begin to finally understand her estranged mother and allow the lost, love of her youth back into her life. But Krista struggles to seize her final opportunity for forgiveness -- and love -- even when she knows that such a step is not for her mother's sake any longer but for her own.

A story of joy and loss, connection and forgiveness, Christmas Every Morning presents each day as a gift to be opened and every loved one as a treasure to be rediscovered.