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Christmas on the Seventh Floor: A Story of Grace, Reconciliation and Forgiveness
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 18 2025
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the snow-covered city of Norfolk, Virginia, two estranged siblings lie just one wall apart-unaware that their shared past is about to find them again.
Hazel Goodwin has spent a lifetime building a polished life on Granby Street: luncheons, charity committees, and a perfect smile that hides the ache of family lost long ago. Her brother Worth Doc Worthington stayed behind in the working-class neighborhoods of Ocean View, raising a family, fixing what was broken, and carrying wounds that never healed.
They haven't spoken in decades. Not since the Thanksgiving that divided them.
But on Christmas Eve, 1988, fate-and a stubborn four-year-old nicknamed The Little Diplomat-brings them to neighboring hospital rooms on the seventh floor of DePaul Hospital. What begins with a child's note slipped under a door becomes a quiet miracle of forgiveness, grace, and the mending of a lifetime of silence.
As snow falls over the Elizabeth River and church bells echo from Holy Trinity, Hazel and Doc rediscover that reconciliation often comes in unexpected ways-and that grace still finds its way through the cracks of the human heart.
Set against the backdrop of Norfolk's shipyards and candlelit Christmases, Christmas on the Seventh Floor is a tender story of family, forgiveness, and the small messengers who heal what pride once broke.
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