A Christmas Castle

＂What are you thinking about, Jack?＂ Gloria looked at him, knowing his thoughts were miles away in time.

Jack chuckled. ＂I was thinking about the Christmas night I found that shooting star stuck in a snow bank.＂

Gloria curiously raised an eyebrow. ＂Excuse me?＂

In this heartwarming novella, Christmas meets the butterfly effect when a young boy’s glance at a shooting star produces surprising results through time.

When Jack Mason was eight years old in 1966, he saw a shooting star on Christmas night. Then he tried to follow it, setting off a chain reaction that affected his life, and others, in ways he would only learn about eighty-two years later when he meets Gloria Grant at the Harbor View Retirement Home. This is a tale of ordinary people, distant memories and forgotten dreams--though sometimes even forgotten dreams can still blossom.

Thomas J. Prestopnik (pronounced press-TOP-nick) is the author of The Endora Trilogy, a fantasy-adventure series for pre-teens and adults comprised of The Timedoor (Book 1), The Sword and the Crown (Book 2) and The Saving Light (Book 3). The first book had originally been published as The Visitors in Mrs. Halloway’s Barn before the story was expanded into a trilogy and retitled The Timedoor. Prestopnik has also written the children’s adventure Gabriel’s Journey, a stand-alone novel enjoyed by both young and old alike, as well as the novella A Christmas Castle which is geared for adults and older teens. He is currently putting the finishing touches on a 117 chapter epic fantasy which he began writing in 1999 and completed in 2013. Prestopnik began planning and outlining this Lord of the Rings inspired novel in 1978 when he was fifteen, three years after first reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved classic. For more information, visit Prestopnik’s Amazon author page or go to TomPresto.com.