Profiles — Isabella Alden

Marian Chester will be home for Christmas―if things go according to plan! After visiting in the West. Marian boards a train for Boston, cradling a lunch basket. To pass the time, she sketches her fellow passengers, including the handsome man across the isle.

Stuart Lynde, a lawyer, notices Marian and wonders if her pretty head is a s empty as the girls he knows. He has nearly despaired of ever finding a woman of quality.

But neither of them can guess how much unforeseen delay―and the contents of Marion's basket―may change more than an earthly destination!

“The Day before Christmas” is but one in this collection of heartwarming, faith-filled stories of days gone by.

Heartwarming stories of faith and love by Grace Livingston Hill's aunt―Isabella Alden. Each book is similar in style and tone to Hill's and is set in the late 1800s and early 1900s.