About This Book
This was a special book for me. I’m not quite certain, for sure, why it became so important. It was, after all, designed to meet certain requirement of the market place at the time. But, for some reason, I couldn’t cheapen it up to the “lowering standards†that publishers were demanding â€" not in this case. I actually took a little more time with it than usual.
It was the theme that hooked me.
We all have some person in our past who lingers, haunts and stays locked up in our memories as “unfinished business†and stays with us for the rest of our lives.
We wonder what if things had happened differently. What might have happened if we’d made a right turn, rather than a left, at a number of possible moments, events, that were turning points in the relationship.
In simple terms, there are those past relationships that never entered into intimacy for one reason or another; usually for moral or ethical or simply “by chance†being diverted from becoming acted on.
Or, perhaps, it was a raging affair where something went wrong or where the needs of one person countered with the needs of the other, and it was impossible to continue on. And things just simmered out, incomplete, leaving haunting memories to feast on in lonely moment, across the years that tended to idealize those past events into something they may never have really been.
We seldom get a second chance to fix things. Life isn’t a landscape that generously offers the ability to go back in time and alter events.
But sometimes, magically, events can come up to give a person the chance not only to look back, but to finally face up to what really existed, what still exists, and get a chance to pick things up and let them become totally satisfied and completed, once and for all.
That’s what One Summer of Love is all about.
It ended up being published under the byline of Fred MacDonald, in a somewhat shorter and different form than it is now being presented.
I have, for this version, expanded the book, and returned its original title.
It is now the story I always wanted it to be. One Summer of Love has truly become a study of lost love, rediscovered.
