CHRISTMAS: A Coming of Age Novel D. C. Ashley Tiffany Churchill, a shy only child living with her troubled parents in their Manhattan town house, spends a happy summer with her new boyfriend and classmate, Nevio, from her university architecture school class. But then when they head back upstate to the demanding rigors of their sophomore year, a handsome Swiss transfer student is assigned to the seat next to Tiffany in her design studio. Concurrently, her father, Willis, hires a comely Hungarian immigrant, Marta, as his home secretary for his new business venture of becoming a conservative talk show host. Willis rents Marta the basement flat under their town house where his home office is located. Trouble brews as his wife Grace, a literary agent, becomes intensely jealous and suspicious of Willis's new office assistant while simultaneously Tiffany finds herself trapped in a triangle situation at school. Her boyfriend Nevio decides that he needs to go to extraordinary measures to maintain his relationship with Tiffany and transforms himself into a dynamic, attractive leader. Some unusual events occur and come together at Christmas time. With the help of Nevio's transformation, the young couples discovers some of the lofty goals and needs of modern society and they accomplish some inspiring achievements benefiting society.