After a depressing year of sadness, loneliness, and self-doubt, successful civil engineer and former All-American basketball star Elizabeth (Betsy) Curry returns home to Oakville, Ohio, for the Christmas holidays a depressed and broken women. Reeling from her bitter divorce from the handsome, charming, but morally decrepate Tommy DeMalio, her college sweetheart and first big love, who left her after two years of what she thought was a good marriage for a stripper he met at an office bachelor party for her co-worker, Betsy feels lost and empty. Not exactly anticipating the happy holiday with her family and their multitude of joyful Christmas customs and long-time storybook-like traditions, she knows she needs them in order to heal.
Once comfortable at home and feeling somewhat better about herself, Tommy shows up and claims he wants a reconciliation, throwing her back into the self-destructive cycle of doubt, hostility, and suspision she is trying so hard to escape.
She discovers her father has set her up with his protégé at work, the tall, handsome, athletic red-haired Patrick, who, try as hard as she can, she can’t find a single thing she doesn’t like about him.
So, what’s the problem? Betsy feels it’s too soon for her to love again. How can she love anyone again when she doesn’t like herself or what she’s become since the break-up. Also, she fears she will hurt the sweet, gentle Patrick.
Will the love, joy, and goodwill of the holiday season coupled with the many long-time holiday customs and Curry family traditions help Betsy to find herself again? Will she be strong enough to lift herself out of her self-induced prison so that she can take another chance on love?
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Dear Gentle Readers,
“I Need Christmas” was a challenge to write! Three authors from Books To Go Now Publishers decided to write a trilogy of Christmas stories called An Oakville Family Christmas. That is not unusual. If you read my “A Dilemma for Daisy”, also with Books To Go Now Publishers, it was a series of five stories revolving around a bookstore in the imaginary Ohio town of Oakville. The books were written in a sequence. The Christmas stories, though, were to take place simultaneously. Each would have the prospective of a different member of the Curry Family. My character was Betsy Curry, the younger daughter, a successful civil engineer with a mess of a personal life. I think you will really like it.
Hugs,
Carol
