Title: The Gift
Description: **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>*
Subjects: Thriller, Christmas, Mystery, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Short Stories, Novella, Holiday
Time periods: Christmas