The Christmas Victory, A Gem of a Sermon, All Wrapped Up In a Historical Novel

Powerful inspirational American Historical fiction novel:

Historical fiction or Alternative history?: Aside from both being authors, what do the lives of Henry W. Longfellow and Mark Twain have in common? The answer is that both of their lives contained terrible tragedies from which they eventually found real hope and spiritual meaning. This novel is about one little sermon and one, even littler poem, and how, fictionally, they may have influenced and given hope to, not only the author of th...