A Love Story with Heart, Healing...and GhostsArtist T.J. MacGregor had come to the Seascape Inn to heal. To find peace. There had been a sense of something almost magical about the place on his first visit years ago, and after suffering yet another painful loss and a crushing personal blow, comin...
Fontaine. To: Dr. Sara West, Major, USAF, staff physician From: Dr. F. Fontaine, Colonel, USAF, facility director Subject: Intelligence Warfare Psychological Training Major West, be advised of the following: 1. Upon review of your personal records, we have determined you are deficient in the afor...
Richards.” The fire in the fireplace crackled and the image of Meriam sitting beside it, curled up on the rocker’s red-and-white-checked cushion and smiling at him, disappeared. “Mr. Richards? Did you hear me?” Mrs. Wiggins pulled out a chair. Its legs scraped over the tile floor. “I’m resigning....
Boudin! She started to take off.“Beth, it’s me, Joe!”Joe. Lighter hair. She studied his eyes, then hopped out of the car and rushed into his arms. He pulled her close, his body shaking. She pulled back. “Kiss me. Right now, Joseph!”Joe touched his lips to hers, and Beth’s world tilted on its axis...
“Hey!” Doris yelled out from the stove “Where are you going? Breakfast is nearly ready.” “Doris.” Kelly paused a brief second and clasped Doris’s hand. “Thank you for coming. It means the world to me. But I need to talk to Ben. It’s critical.” “Ben.” Her voice warmed. “Now he’s a package.” “Yes, ...
Staring down at his Porsche, he hoped it would still be parked there in the morning—unstripped. Rubbing his neck, he walked back to Caron’s bedroom door. In the morning, she’d be mad as a hornet at him for staying. But he couldn’t leave. What if she got sick again? His hand on the knob, he bent t...
I was starting to worry. T. J. said to expect you just after noon.” Bess set down her bags in front of the Seascape Inn registration desk, then looked at the innkeeper, Miss Hattie. She did look like Norman Rockwell’s grandma model, just as Maggie had said. Soft, round face, crinkled into a welco...
Lisa Harper walked across the Crossroads Crisis Center exercise studio to Kelly Walker. “In that position, he’ll attack you from the left. You need to be able to pivot and get your arm up. Then when he does attack, you twist and bring your arm down. That will break his hold.” She hiked her leg an...
The Florida swamp wasn’t all fire and brimstone, but it was definitely a place where those condemned to being in it suffered abject misery. Crashing down from an adrenaline high, Sybil stared at Westford’s back and wrung out her jacket hem, chiding herself for not sucking it up and focusing on he...
Survivor to survivor, he’d done all he could to protect her. True-she recalled the bathroom-sink dunking some of his methods sucked dead canaries, but he had been effective. And she’d been ungrateful-and unwilling to give him even the benefit of doubt. “What exactly is your on-base , story?” ‘,Do...