Romance, Women’s Fiction
Title: Cupid’s Christmas
Author: Bette Lee Crosby
Date to be published – early October 2012
In a fun Christmas Romance, Cupid is charged with making certain an older couple gets the love they've been waiting for and a young woman who’s far too attracted to handsome men with sexy eyes finds her perfect match. And, he has to make it happen by Christmas.
In a spot somewhere between Heaven and Earth, Cupid tries to maneuver around the complications that threaten to wreck this romance as he struggles to overcome the forces of lust, jealousy and the events brought on by his nemeses—Life Management. He matched John and Eleanor some thirty years ago, but Life Management stepped in and fouled things up. Now they’re both single and back together again. But before Cupid can give them the happiness they deserve, he’s got to come up with some magic, a few miracles and a dog for John’s daughter.
If you’re a Debbie Macomber fan, you’re gonna love Cupid’s Christmas!
A wonderful feel-good story that I for one am better for having read it. I definitely recommend this book very highly…Goodreads review
Award-winning novelist Bette Lee Crosby brings the wit and wisdom of her Southern Mama to works of fiction—the result is a delightful blend of humor, mystery and romance along with a cast of quirky charters who will steal your heart away.
Her published works to date are: Cracks in the Sidewalk (2009), Spare Change (2011), The Twelfth Child (2012), and Life in the Land of IS (2012). Life in the Land of IS is a memoir written for Lani Deauville, a woman the Guinness Book of Records lists as the world’s longest living quadriplegic.
Crosby newest novel Cupid’s Christmas is scheduled for release in early October and following that, What Matters Most will be released in early 2013.
CONTACT
Twitter - @betteleecrosby
Read an Excerpt
CUPID’S CHRISTMAS
by Bette Lee Crosby
Cupid
The problem with humans is they’re in love with love. Even worse,
they’re determined to find it themselves. They stumble in and out of
relationships that simply were never meant to be and then wonder why it didn’t
work. Females are infinitely more complicated than males. Lindsay Gray for
example, she’s dead-set on doing this her way and four times she’s ended up
with the wrong male. She’s the kind of female who makes my job a nightmare.
Contrary to
popular belief, love isn’t a result of me shooting an arrow into some human’s
heart—that whole bit is a lot of hooey. I get my orders from Upstairs. The Boss
gives me a rundown of matches then it’s my job to make sure the male and female
get together. When things go wrong I’ve got to come up with a Plan B. Unfortunately
Lindsay Gray has already used up B through E, I’m now working on Plan F and
she’s dangerously close to being reclassified as Love-Challenged.
Her problem is
she can’t tell love from lust. She sees a pair of heavy-lidded dark eyes, or a
rippling muscle and thinks she’s in love. This started when she was only ten
years old and caught sight of the boy who lived two doors down. The lad was
twelve and wanted nothing to do with her, but that didn’t stop Lindsay from
developing a preadolescent case of lovesickness. She followed that poor boy
around like a faithful puppy until she saw him kissing Sara McLachlan. Once
that happened she swore she’d never love again and she didn’t, until she was
eleven.
Lindsay’s
mistaken love more times than I can count, and every time it ended in a
disaster. She can’t understand why this keeps happening to her, but the answer
is obvious—humans with do-it-yourself determination are not equipped to
identify true love. They inevitably mistake passion for love. Elizabeth Taylor
is a perfect example. She refused to let me handle things, so eight times she
got married and seven times she got divorced. One poor chap was killed in a
plane crash before she had a chance to divorce him—that was not my doing, that
unfortunate event came from Life
Management. Not one of those gents was included in Elizabeth’s plan which goes
to prove what I’ve been saying.
But I’m
digressing, so let me get back to the subject at hand.
One of the
advantages of this job is my ability to see the future and I can tell you
Lindsay’s got a lot of problems ahead of her. Problems far worse than her bad
boyfriend choices. Most of those problems are coming from the guy over in Life
Management. Me, I’m a lovable fellow. But Life Management—well suffice it to say
he handles things like car crashes, bankruptcies and heart attacks.
.
Right now my primary assignment isn’t
Lindsay—it’s her father and Eleanor Barrow. But if I don’t step in and take
control of Lindsay’s life, she’ll ruin theirs. Eleanor and John deserve better,
they’ve been waiting a long time.
This isn’t the first time for Eleanor and John Gray, they were a
perfect match back in high school. If Eleanor had gone to Penn State instead of
Kentucky, she and John would have had four daughters and a lifetime of
happiness. I set up that first match, but once she left the North East, she was
out of my region. Raymond, the fellow she married was from Seattle—North West
region—and they met at the University of Kentucky—Central region. You probably
know where this is going, right? She was out of my region, Raymond was out of
his and my counterpart in Kentucky was busy fending off the nineteen girls who
thought they were in love with the same basketball player, so Eleanor and
Raymond got married and became what we call an MM. (Migratory Mistake)
Despite the
fact that I’d let her down, Eleanor made the best of it. If you were standing
on the outside looking in, you’d actually think she was happy. Of course I knew
the truth because I go to the inside of a person’s heart—I have to, it’s my
job. Eleanor was a good wife and a good mother—a bit overindulgent with Ray
Junior maybe, but still a good mother. Papa Raymond was another story. It was
bad enough that he had an eye for the ladies, but he also had a great fondness
for beer and the business sense of a turnip. An insurance salesman who sold
life insurance to everybody but himself, how crazy is that?
When Life
Management stepped in and did their dirty work, Raymond got an illness nobody
wants and it was two years before they finally gave the okay for him to die.
Eleanor took care of him that whole time and once he was gone, she worked two
jobs so Ray Junior could go on to college.
Eleanor’s a
woman with a big heart, lots of grit and steadfast determination, which is
fortunate because when it comes to dealing with Lindsay Gray, she’s gonna need
all of it. If Eleanor’s got a flaw it’s that she’s blind to the faults of those
she loves, which is why Ray Junior is such a problem.
TOUR SCHEDULE
12. My Cozie Corner
17. K is for Kechell
20. The Other Shelf
22.Book Maven
23. Bunny's Reviews
24. Inside BJ's Head
No comments:
Post a Comment