The Christmas Hour
by John Martin Hill
Category: Fiction

Amanda. Will she be a Monica or a Mother Teresa? Americas young women today are Monica clones, J-Lo and Britney wannabes and its all about me, me, me. Right? Amanda, straight A senior at the National Cathedral School for Girls, knowingly enters into a forbidden relationship with Parker, a teacher at the St. Albans School for Boys. Then, in a dramatic turn of events, Amanda must make a choice: simply forget Parker ever existed, or prove that when todays young women face enormous adversity they still can show great courage, compassion and class. Her eventual choice in this unusal love story, reaching to the White House, State Department and Congress, will climax one beautiful spring day in the Nave of the Washington National Cathedral.