The
Cottage Next DoorThe
Beach House # 3.5
By:
Georgia Bockoven
Releasing
July 14, 2015
William
Morrow
Blurb
What
should have been the best day in Diana Wagnor’s twenty-nine years
easily turns into the worst when her job is downsized, she discovers
her fiancé in bed with her best friend, and watches her cherished
grandmother’s house burn to the ground.
Clearly
it’s time to start over and get out of Topeka, Kansas, where she’s
spent her whole life. But what should she do? And how does she ever
trust herself in another relationship when her one indisputable skill
seems to be picking the wrong man?
Diana
finds her answers at the cottage next door to the beach house with
the help of a tall, sculptured, soft-spoken Californian, and a
heart-shaped piece of sea glass.
EXCERPT;
Excerpt
There was no way to know the tiny
heart-shaped fragment of translucent green beach glass that washed up
on the shore seventy-five years ago brought a touch of magic with it.
The young woman who found it had gone to the beach that morning to
decide whether her life was worth living alone. She’d lost the only
man she’d ever loved in a nameless battle, on a nameless island,
three days before the war in the Pacific officially ended.
She didn’t feel the magic right
away, just a comforting sense of peace that grew to acceptance, and
finally hope. The sea glass resided in the pocket of whatever pants
or jackets she wore while she stayed at the cottage, a talisman she
clasped when her loss threatened to return and overwhelm her. When
the principal at the school where she taught fifth grade called to
gently remind her that there was an upcoming mandatory staff meeting
to get ready for the first day of school, she reluctantly started
packing.
Distracted, she didn’t notice when
the sea glass slipped from her pocket, nor did she feel it under her
foot when she moved her suitcases out of the bedroom and into the
enclosed back porch. She might have noticed a flash of color
reflected in the sunlight when she made one more quick pass through
the cottage—if only she hadn’t stepped on the tiny heart again,
this time tilting it on edge and forcing it between two six-inch wide
pieces of rustic flooring.
She left the cottage through the
back porch, stopping to look out the wall of windows that gave an
unimpeded view of the cove. Something had drawn her to this room for
a last good-bye, settling a sense of contentment over her as gently
as one of her grandmother’s silk knit shawls.
The taxi appeared ten minutes early,
the driver giving two quick honks to announce his arrival. She led
him to the back porch, standing to the side while he picked up three
of her four suitcases. As she reached for the last bag the sun cut
through the morning fog, and for an instant, out of the corner of her
eye, she saw a burst of blue light. It was gone as quickly as it
had appeared. Had it not been her
final day, had she not been in a hurry to get to the bus depot, had
the taxi driver arrived on time rather than early, she would have
investigated.
Instead she forgot all about the
strange blue light until she was on the Greyhound bus to Arizona, and
thought to look for the glass heart in her pocket. It wasn’t there.
She checked her other pockets, desperately hoping she’d
absentmindedly put it in one of them. But even as she looked, a voice
whispered in her ear—It’s
gone, leave it be.
B&N:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cottage-next-door-georgia-bockoven/1121191649?ean=9780062389879
Author
Info
Georgia
Bockoven is an award-winning author who began writing fiction after a
successful career as a freelance journalist and photographer. Her
books have sold more than three million copies worldwide. The mother
of two, she resides in northern California with her husband, John.
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