Legend of the Wooden Star

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>Legend of the Wooden Star</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(119 119 119 1)> is a heart-warming story set at Christmastime. The present-day story revisits the Reid family first introduced in the1995 bestseller The Special Guest A Christmas story. Now 30 years later we meet Hunter Reid the 19-year-old grandson. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>As the story opens Hunter and his new girlfriend Denèe along with their Sunday school class visit Richmond Children's Hospital to bring the kids Christmas cheer. That afternoon they meet Joey an 11-year-old boy whose leukemia has come out of remission. Joey has just returned to the hospital for a life-saving bone marrow transplant only to learn his donor backed out.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>Despondent Joey is visited by a mysterious stranger who comes after visitig hours. Problem is no one else sees him come or go. Shaz who dresses in the robe and headpiece of Middle Eastern royalty comes from an ancient line of priests who study the stars for Divine answers. He's there to help Joey find the miracle he now so desperately needs.  </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>But first Joey must discover a special star--known as the Miracle Star--due to make a spectacular appearance in time for Christmas. This rare star only shows up once in a millennium Shaz explains. When it does legend says it can bring a Amiracle to whoever  recognize it and believes its special message.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>When Hunter and Denèe hear aboutJoey's miracle star that afternoon they are baffled. What Joey describes sounds eerily like the theme of their church's Christmas play. Who is this mysterious friend of Joey's really they wonder? When an ancient game dating back to Roman times shows up in Joey's room the mystery deepens. Now everyone knows Joey's friend is not his imagination. That puts hospital security in crisis mode as it seeks to explain how a stranger can slip in with no signs of his presence. Most startling of all is the game called Game of Mercenaries plays a pivotal role in the church play. A game no one has ever heard of outside of the play.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>While Hunter and Denèe try to solve these mysterious happenings a little wooden star carved by a shepherd boy that first Christmas night will reach across time to bring Joey his miracle. The ending will inspire anyone who has ever hoped for a miracle. </span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>Legend of the Wooden Star</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(119 119 119 1)> offers a memorable lesson how faith gives substance to what we hope for... before it appears. </span></p>