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Thanks to everyone who stopped by last week and left comments. Sorry it took me so long to get to everyone. This snippet is from my Christmas story, ROMANCE REKINDLED.
To orient you: After Abby got a middle-of-the-night phone call from the police, she and her teenage daughter, Bethany, race to the jail.
Please excuse the creative punctuation, necessary to keep this within the guidelines. It's also edited some from the original.
“Who are you?” Abby demanded of
the old man sitting in the cell next to Mother . . . and holding her mother’s hand!
Florence bounded off the cot
with the agility of a much younger woman, all those classes at the Senior
Center must be paying off, “Abigail Louise, what are you doing here?”
Abby fisted her hands on her
hips, “What are you doing in jail—and
who is that man?”
That
man
rose more slowly than Mother had—he looked to be about her age, or slightly
older, and a little taller with a head of thick, gray hair and a weathered face
that had seen a lot of sun. When he reached Mother’s side, he placed his arm
around her waist. Around her waist! How
dare he?
“Abigail, go home, I don’t want
you here. How could you drag poor Bethany out of bed at this hour of the
morning? And it’s such a nasty night with the storm coming in across the lake.”
Blurb:
Abby Ten Eyck likes her life the way it is. She runs a successful business, has a well-adjusted teenage daughter, and has managed to keep men at bay since her divorce fifteen years ago. Just before Christmas, she’s hit with change. Her mother decides to sell the family home. Then she’s arrested, with an unknown man. Could this new man in her mother’s life create more upheaval? Or could his handsome son be just what Abby needs to revive her dormant feelings?
Sam Watson embraces transition from frenetic Wall Street to a small Michigan resort town. His health is worth moving close to his dad who seems over the moon in love. But it’s the daughter of his father’s girlfriend who fascinates him. Abby Ten Eyck reminds him of his driven self. He must help her slow down before she burns out. Like he did.
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