title: Their First Noelle
author: Atwood, Leah
description: What do you do with a gift you can't return?
  Several weeks before Christmas, widower Lucas Sheridan discovered that his mother-in-law and daughter ordered him a bride for Christmas.
  Noelle Denison was to arrive on the train the next day. Orphaned at the age of ten, she had been shuffled around and on her own most of her life.  She moved west in anticipation of meeting the man who had stolen her heart and was crushed when she found out he did not want her.
  This Christmas, will a meddling mother's scheme bring love to those who are hurting? Find out in this SHORT STORY of thirty pages.
  NEWLY EDITED July, 2015