(October 12, 2023 release date)
We were all intensely listening to the story and at the end she said, “and you know what? He was a real sick guy, he attacked women all year, but did it Twice on Christmas.”
I looked at her and said, “That’s a great title for a book”. This is the first time that I had the title before I had an inkling of the story. As it turns out, my story isn’t much like the one she told, except for the Christmas part. The book has a few rather demented twists which I’m hoping everyone enjoys. There’s even one final little twisty nugget on the last page.
Here’s the SUMMARY.
After choir practice for Christmas Eve midnight mass, college sophomore Rose Grandon takes a short-cut through Harbor Park. Grabbed from behind, she is violently assaulted, beaten and left for dead. The last thing she hears is a tenor voice singing Silent Night.
Several hours later, the police find Rose lying in a ditch. Badly beaten — but alive.
As she recovers in hospital, Rose is told she’s pregnant. She has a terrible choice to make. She decides to keep the baby.
Nine months later, she gives birth to a beautiful baby girl. She names her Mary.
Rose lives quietly in her small Connecticut hometown raising her daughter — the one good thing to come out of her horrible ordeal. She begins to get her old self back.
But her evil attacker has never been caught. He strikes twice a year. Once on Christmas Eve, once on Christmas Day.
And until he’s behind bars, Rose and her baby can never be safe.
McGARVEY BLACK 