Thy Eternal Summer
Novella (Contemporary Romance/Hen Lit)
Description
Sarah Harrison is a housewife and the mother of two grown children
but her marriage is tainted by alcoholism and emotional abuse. When her
husband Ed drowns in a river at an RV park in Tennessee, she’s on her
own for the first time in her life. She can’t drive the Winnebago to
return to their home in North Carolina.
Max McCloud, newly retired from NASA, is parked next to Ed and
Sarah’s Winnebago. He designs aircraft components online with his
friends and misses his late wife, Adela, who died the previous year. He
befriends the newly widowed Sarah and offers to drive her home in her
Winnebago.
Can their new friendship and potential romantic attachment overcome
the memories of their deceased spouses and provide them with the kind
of Golden Years they both desire?
Excerpt
What a marvelous thing, to be adored and cherished by a man like Mr.
McCloud. Sarah hoped Mr. McCloud hadn’t thought she was nosey for
asking what his wife had been like, but she’d wanted a personality to
go with the lovely face in the pictures. The McClouds proved that
sometimes love stories were real. The McClouds also proved that some
women were luckier than others. But it accomplished nothing to be
envious of the blessings of other people. Envy only brought
unhappiness. It was far better for a woman to be grateful for what she
did have instead of envying what she didn’t.
At least she had life and breath. Poor Adela McCloud was dead.
Sarah had missed out on so much in her life, but she refused to feel sorry for herself. There was no point in agonizing over what couldn’t be changed. And she refused to entertain notions of Mr. McCloud being attracted to her. He couldn’t be. She had behaved like such a rube in his Rialta. Look at what he’d seen of her life, what he knew of her life. How could she measure up to his wife, who’d been a successful mother and a savvy career woman, well-traveled and cosmopolitan? Who’d been unafraid to chase her dreams, grab them, and hold on to them? And Mr. McCloud was brilliant: he’d been an engineer with NASA, for heaven’s sake. He even made Ed look mundane, and she, Sarah, was nothing but a college drop out and housewife. Max McCloud was way out of her league: so far it was laughable.
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