Miracle on I-40

A Sweet Christmas Romance

By: Curtiss Ann Matlock

Narrated by: Jama Smith

Going home for Christmas can be risky to the heart.

USA Today bestselling author Curtiss Ann Matlock gives listeners a story of a road trip filled with affectionate wit and heartwarming romance.

Lacey Bryant, the ever-hopeful waitress at Gerald’s Truck Stop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, longs to go home for Christmas. It has been eleven years since ran away from her angry father. Now she is ready to go home and ask forgiveness and to share with her aging parents the grandchildren they have never seen. But home is all the way across the country, a trip Lacey can’t begin to afford as a single mother raising two children alone.

Cooper is every inch a Scrooge whose hard knocks in life took away any belief in the glory of Christmas. He definitely wants no part of traveling with two children. But he has promised to help out a friend, and he can’t manage to tell Lacey no. So he loads the woman and her brood into his eighteen-wheeler and carries them along with him on his trip down Interstate 40. As the miles roll under the big truck's wheels, it turns out to be Lacey and her children who are bringing Cooper along with them, on a journey that takes them all home to the heart.

©1988, 2014, 2023 Curtiss Ann Matlock (P)2025 Curtiss Ann Matlock

Critic reviews

"Matlock has a gift for telling what she calls, 'the secret lives of ordinary people,' " - Detroit Free Press

A Sweet Christmas Story

It's wonderful to hear on Audiobook an old Christmas favorite! A sweet story of two lonely people finding love and the magic of Christmas. On a cross country trip, a single mother taking her two precious children home to meet their grandparents and a man convinced he's destined to be alone get exactly what they wanted and didn't know they needed when they join forces to make the trip. Another heartwarming story from the wonderful Curtiss Ann Matlock!