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The Gift
Freida McFadden · Mystery & Thriller · 53 pages
39 Pulse Score
Based on recommendations from independent creators
psychological thrillertwist ending
psychological thriller
🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit
#223 All Time
About this book
**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? *The Gift is a gripping Christmas-themed thrilling short story inspired by the classic O. Henry tale, <a href="https://openlibrary.org/works/OL181953W" target="_blank">The Gift of the Magi.</a>*
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