Lost December

by Richard Paul Evans

Genres: Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Richard Paul Evans is the #1 best-selling author of The Christmas Box. In Lost December, Luke is the heir to the Crisp Copy Center fortune. He has a life of plenty before him-until he makes a huge mistake and blows all his money in a single year of partying and living it up. Now, determined to avoid asking his famous father for help, Luke manages to get an entry-level job as a clerk-and finds romance with a woman who might just help him get his life back on track.

Release date: November 1, 2011

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Print pages: 368

Sample

Lost December

PROLOGUE

A ninety-year-old man went to confession. “Father,” he said, “I left my wife and ran off with a thirty-year-old woman.”

The priest said, “That’s terrible, but I don’t recognize your voice. Are you a member of this parish?”

The old man replied, “No. I’m not Catholic.”

“Then why are you telling me this?” The priest asked.

“I’m ninety years old,” the old man replied, “I’m telling everyone.”



There are those who share their stories of waywardness with false shame and fond recollection—a misplaced pride in past misdeeds. I am not that fool. I share my story for your benefit, not mine. On my part, I feel nothing but shame and gratitude. Shame for the people I hurt and gratitude that they didn’t desert me when I most deserved it. It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place. This is the story of my second chance.