Title: The Summer Diary
Author: Elyse Douglas
BLURB:
After her best friend and husband are killed in an airplane crash, a
young woman finds her best friend’s diary and learns that she was secretly in
love with another man, a soldier.
Determined to find the secret lover, Keri sets off on a journey and
discovers the key to her destiny.
Excerpt:
Keri
stopped, hovering on the edge of an absurd thought. Should she try to find Ryan? The thought gave her a sudden electric
thrill. She stared down into the sand,
seeing the eroded ruins of an old sandcastle that had been punished by the
hostile tide.
“Ryan,”
she said aloud, the sound instantly swallowed up by the beat of waves striking
the beach.
Keri
circled the space, gently kicking at the sand castle, mentally kicking at “what
ifs.” What if he’d been killed? What if he’d moved away? What if he was married and didn’t want to
remember Sophia? What if Sophia hadn’t
revealed the whole truth about the relationship because there was some awful
truth about him?
And
how could she possibly ever locate Ryan without a last name? Sophia had never once mentioned it.
In
an instant, Keri knew the decision had already been made: She had to find a way to track down and speak
to this man. She whirled and marched
back across the beach to where she’d left her chair and the diary. There had to be clues in the diary—had to be
phrases that could help her find Ryan.
At the very least, she could discover what had happened to him.
Author Bio:
Elyse
Douglas is the pen name for the married writing team Elyse Parmentier
and Douglas Pennington. Elyse grew up near the sea, roaming the
beaches, reading and writing stories and poetry, receiving a Degree in English Literature.
She has enjoyed careers as an English teacher, an actress and
a speech-language pathologist. She and her husband, Douglas
Pennington, have completed five novels: The Other Side of Summer,
Christmas for Juliet, Wanting Rita, Christmas Ever After, The Christmas
Town and The Christmas Diary.
Douglas
grew up in a family where music and astrology were second and
third languages. He attended the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music
and played the piano professionally for many years. His two detective
books include Death is Lookin' for ELVIS and Death is a
TAPDANCER. His great, great grandfather
lived to be 132 years old, and was the oldest man in the world when he
died in 1928.
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