Here's a good read for readers who need a break from Christmas. Paperback and Kindle (et al).
Custer and His Naked Ladies, an excerpt
Janelle Meraz
Hooper
Newly divorced, Glory’s biological clock is pounding like a powwow drum. She heads back home to Oklahoma
1.
Dumped
Glory
was on her way to join her husband on a NOAA research vessel when she tried to
call him to say she was running late. That was when she discovered he wasn’t on
the ship; without telling her, he’d pulled out of the offshore project days
before. With that failed phone call, all of her recent, uncomfortable inklings
fell into place. Her marriage was over. He just hadn’t gotten around to telling
her yet.
That was how she ended up at
Sea-Tac Airport ,
halfway between Seattle and Tacoma
Her
original destination, the research vessel, was scheduled to drop anchor over
the undersea volcanoes off the coast of Washington
After the research trip, she and her
husband, Rick, were to take a much-needed vacation to Mexico
Before the research trip, he had convinced her to put all of their
things in storage because they didn’t know if they’d be back in Seattle
It made sense.
Sort of.
But why hadn’t she been suspicious when he’d insisted on putting all of
his things into separate marked boxes? How dumb was she? The dirty rat! And what would she have done on the research
ship without him for three weeks? Her specialty was in freshwater turtles; there would be no real work for her there. No
paycheck. He was the specialist in
coastal underwater volcanoes. He belonged
there. She would have been nothing more than a guest with no way off the boat.
Her cheeks burned at the embarrassment she felt. What was he thinking?
Her new
destination was her mother’s in Oklahoma Oklahoma
unless they had to, and airline tickets to the Sooner State
On her way to the airplane
boarding area, over and over, Glory thought, this isn’t the way normal, educated people get divorced.
I’ve been dumped!
With no explanation.
No discussion.
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