02405cam a2200421 i 4500 513754855 TxAuBib 20210923120000.0 210914s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021936519 9781496730633 hbk. 1496730631 hbk. TxAuBib rda Monroe, Mary Alice. Once in a lifetime / Mary Monroe. Once in a life-time. First Kensington hardcover edition. New York, NY : Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Corp, 2021. ©2021. 208 pages ; 19 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes discussion questions. "Free-spirited, living on the fly, Vanessa Hayes is still always down for traditional family holiday fun--until now. She's making her oft-delayed wish finally come true: Christmas in Paris, the glittering City of Lights when her passport gets delayed, it's too late for Vanessa to rebook. Now it looks like the Yuletide she longs for won't happen. Until a stranger suddenly enters her life, and changes it forever ... Overwhelmed by responsibility, Judith Guthrie is too busy worrying about her seriously ill brother to have time to celebrate. She's taken a leave from her teaching job to care for him as he's on the waiting list for a life-giving transplant. A trip to France is a kind of happiness she can't imagine. But when she accidentally receives Vanessa's passport, Judith can't resist delivering it in person so Vanessa will at least have her holiday dream. She can't anticipate that her small gesture will result in a series of big choices, big miracles, and lifelong rewards that all will be thankful for over many Christmases to come"-- Provided by publisher. 20210923. Single women Fiction. African American women Fiction. Women caregivers Fiction. Female friendship. Fiction. Organ donors Fiction. African American families Fiction. Christmas stories. California Fiction. Domestic fiction. Christmas fiction. Kensington Publishing Corp., publisher.