As Christmas approaches, Irena Maddox faces typical teenage problems: her mother is half the world away, the boy of her dreams doesn't know she exists, and it doesn't even have the decency to snow.

Then she meets her eccentric new neighbor, Moira, and everything seems to change. But is there something more to her run of good luck... and to Moira?

LINDSEY DUNCAN is a life-long writer and professional Celtic harp performer, with short fiction and poetry in numerous speculative fiction publications. She feels that music and language are inextricably linked. She lives, performs and teaches harp in Cincinnati, Ohio.