Blessedly Cursed Christmas

By Olivia Stowe

Curtain Call retirement home has received a bequest.

Having received a bequest to do “something to make the residents happy” movie star Brenda Brandon and her spouse, retired FBI agent Charlotte Diamond, owners of Curtain Call, a Hopewell, Maryland, movie colony retirement home, decide to make Christmas memorable. Motivated by the need to encourage residents to have the will to live through a season that is as challenging as joyful for the elderly and lonely, and also by the wish to integrate the retirement home into the village better, Brenda and Charlotte decide to bring in best friends and favorite relatives for each resident for a surprise Christmas Eve party. The plans are heartfelt, but they also are ambitious, and the weather has plans that challenge them at every step. Will Curtain Call get its Christmas miracle?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cyberworld Publishing
• Release date: Nov 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9780994380531

Olivia Stowe

Olivia Stowe is a published author under different names and in other dimensions of fiction and nonfiction and lives quietly in a university town with an indulgent spouse.You can find Olivia at CyberworldPublishing.Our authors like to receive feedback and appreciate reviews being posted at distributor and book review sites.All Olivia’s books, except the “Bundles,” are available in paperback and e-book.Mystery RomanceRestoring the CastleFinal FlightThe Charlotte Diamond mystery seriesBy The Howling (Book 1)Retired with Prejudice (Book 2)Coast to Coast (Book 3)An Inconvenient Death (Book 4)What’s The Point? (Book 5)White Orchid Found (Book 6)Curtain Call (Book 7)Horrid Honeymoon (Book 8)Follow the Palm (Book 9)Fowler’s Folly (Book 10Jesus Speaks Galician (Seasonal Special)Making Room at Christmas (Seasonal Special)Cassandra’s last Spotlight (Seasonal Special)Blessedly Cursed Christmas (Seasonal Special)Charlotte Diamond Mysteries Bundle 1 (Books 1&2)Charlotte Diamond Mysteries Bundle 2 (Books 3&4)Charlotte Diamond Mysteries Bundle 3 (Books 5&6)The Savannah SeriesChatham SquareSavannah TimeOlivia’s Inspirational Christmas collectionsChristmas Seconds (2011)Spirit of Christmas (2010)

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Blessedly Cursed Christmas

Olivia Stowe

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Contents

Blessedly Cursed Christmas

About the Author

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Blessedly Cursed Christmas

If how well—or, rather, not well—the Thanksgiving celebration had gone over at the Curtain Call movie colony retirement home was any indication, all of the elaborate preparations and expense going into the Christmas festivities there would go for naught. Not that the retirement community the senior box office leading lady, Brenda Brandon, and her now-spouse, retired FBI agent, Charlotte Diamond, were establishing on the banks of Maryland’s Choptank River was anywhere close to a doom-and-gloom nursing home. It was more of a nominal-cost resort, and that had been what Brenda had determined it would be (Curtain Call).

When Brenda, known in her childhood home town