A Christmas Home

By: Greg Kincaid / Narrated By: Mark Bramhall

Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins

The series just keeps getting better and better

As if A Dog Named Christmas and Christmas with Tucker weren’t good enough, here Greg Kincaid comes up with the third in the series, A Christmas Home.

Christmas isn’t the only thing coming to Crossing Trails—hard times aplenty have come to stay. The animal shelter Todd McCray is assistant manager at is taking in surrendered pets galore. They’re all getting names like Foreclosure and Sub-prime as people simply can’t make ends meet and keep their furry kids.

But that’s not all. Crossing Trails is closing the animal shelter as there’s just no money to keep up the old broken down place. Animals have to find homes or new shelters, and all staff, including Todd, have to find new jobs. George McCray, Todd’s dad, thinks this is the perfect time for Todd to get used to reality as everyone else lives it: Reality means doing hard things you don’t like, all in the name of getting a paycheck.

Todd has the opportunity to work at a dairy farm, but there’s no room for affection there. Cows are simply equipment: Do NOT consider them as thinking, feeling creatures, for heaven’s sake. Can Todd, with his tender heart, manage such work?

To top it off, there’s Laura, a volunteer at the shelter, who is also Todd’s best friend. What on earth is this feeling he has for her? A young man with disabilities? Are such feelings wise to have? But they both have Gracie between them, the dog Todd trained to be a service animal for Laura as she tries to navigate the world with her crippling arthritis.

It’s a hard world, but at least it’s Christmas, a time when hearts are open.

A Christmas Home confronts disabilities head-on, confronts the sacrifices we all have to make, confronts the fact that we sometimes hold our deepest desires too closely, with nary a thought for reality. And through it all, there’s a strong sense of community and the complete and utter love the McCray’s have for each other. It’s a really, really fine Christmas book, and with Mark Bramhall narrating, it’s a great audiobook. He can do the variety of characters throughout and the variety of emotions all express.

You want another dose of the McCray family, their friends, the animals they love? Here ya go. A wonderful Christmas listen!