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Chapter 5 The next morning, after their fabulous day sailing on Patrick’s extraordinary boat, Austin Wylie appeared at the house, driving a black Ferrari. He stepped out of the car wearing white leather pants, a black shirt open to the waist, and black alligator cowboy boots, and put a black Stetson on his head as … Read more
Chapter 4 They were all at breakfast the next morning when Austin Wylie called Eugenia on her cell, and she left the table to speak to him. She walked out to the porch and sat down in the swing. “Good morning, I’m sorry to call you so early, but I wanted to catch you before … Read more
Chapter 3 Stefano and Brad left to play tennis the next morning, and were getting along like old friends after the relaxed evening before. Daphne had gotten them a guest membership at her tennis and golf club. The women hung around after breakfast, making plans. Geoff and Gloria hadn’t come to breakfast, still tired and … Read more
Chapter 2 It only took Eugenia an hour to finish packing when she got back to the apartment from her office. She had three bags full of clothes for every eventuality, evenings at home, days at the pool, a few fancier things to wear out to a restaurant, or a party, if they were invited … Read more
Chapter 1 Eugenia Ward had spent the morning minutely going over her personal accounts and all her accounting records online, the same records that had been causing her endless anxiety and sleepless nights for the last eighteen months, ever since the pandemic began. She was a tall, slim, blond, serious-looking woman, impeccably trained as a … Read more
Chapter 20-30 wakes Clara up. Jonah calls and she answers. They chat, share their favorite memories of each other, and confess their love. Morgan finds Clara vomiting in the bathroom after hanging up and tends to her. Clara, still intoxicated, asks Morgan to sing her to sleep because she feels guilty about texting Jenny the … Read more
Chapter 11-20 Since she may have to care for Elijah, Morgan worries about how she and Clara will survive. Clara returns from school and wonders why Jonah left Elijah. While washing Elijah’s bottles, Morgan sends Clara to the store for diapers. Clara goes to the store by passing Miller’s house. Clara decides to drive to … Read more
Chapter 1-10 Morgan, 17, wonders why she feels empty at the start of the novel. She gets along with her boyfriend Chris and sister Jenny, who dates Chris’s best friend Jonah. Most of the time, the four teens hang out. Chris and Jonah recently graduated from high school. Morgan and Jenny have a close relationship, … Read more
Chapter 14 By the time they all left for France in time to spend the Fourteenth of July there, the week before the wedding, everyone had had a good month. Marlene and the boys had been to Lake Tahoe and Santa Barbara, while Tommy commuted in a plane he chartered. The boys had been to … Read more
Chapter 13 When Felicity heard Taylor crash into the apartment at two .., she thought for a minute about pretending to be asleep. But she decided to deal with it calmly and remind him that he was staying at his parents’ apartment that night, not hers. He had come home like a homing pigeon to … Read more
Chapter 12 The gallery opening was a dazzling success. A huge number of people came, art lovers, critics, a good portion of their mailing list, many of Felicity’s friends, professors, and other artists she’d taken classes with. The Whitfields never showed up and she didn’t care, and Taylor had fun meeting people and chatting with … Read more
Chapter 11 While juggling half a dozen crises in the office, including fabric that hadn’t come in from Italy, two June brides changing their wedding gowns radically and the sewers playing beat the clock to finish them, delivery problems, a crucial pattern that went missing, and a foreign head of state who wanted Dominique to … Read more