Carol's Christmas

Carol Sawyer built her empire with grit, ambition, and relentless drive-until the day life gave her something she couldn't control. Diagnosed with breast cancer just after the holiday season, Carol is forced to step away from the business she built from the ground up and let her best friend, Iona Crossman, take the reins.
As she navigates chemotherapy and radiation, her carefully curated world begins to unravel, leaving her to face a truth she never saw coming. Success isn't just about the bottom line.
With the support of her ex-husband, Noah, her daughter, Ems, and the staff that are keeping her business going, Carol embarks on a deeply personal transformation. Like a modern-day Ebenezer Scrooge, she is confronted with her past, present, and future-challenging her to become more than just a workaholic entrepreneur.
If she doesn't learn the lessons cancer is forcing upon her, she risks losing everything that truly matters.

Catherine Mede lives in a bustling coastal town of Motropolis, with a tall lanky son, a partner (Mr H) and a short haired domestic cat called Lunar. When not writing,
Catherine works full time as a gardener.
In her spare time, she likes to read, get creative with art and crafts and, of course, do the gardening.
Although having developed a love for writing while at High School, it wasn't until she was in her thirties that she decided to get down and dirty with the words in her head.
Catherine will dabble in any genre, as her backlist will attest. When she was younger, she would write to escape reality. Now she writes it to allow others to escape to a little piece of paradise in New Zealand.