Born Again
Book Details
Author(s)PJ Lincoln
PublisherPJ's Books LLC
ISBN / ASINB004RUXBQE
ISBN-13978B004RUXBQ8
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
Beth Tanner has a secret. It's one she's kept from her husband, Jackson, for more than a decade of marriage. Now, a chance encounter with a device that allows your past to be viewed in full detail, Beth Tanner must confront her long ago transgressions.
Beth lives an ideal soccer-mom suburban lifestyle. It's a life she's grown accustomed to and she doesn't want to give it up. But Jackson needs to know the truth and that world she treasurers so much could be taken away.
Moving and packed with twists, Born Again is a quick read that will leave you thinking about the skeletons in your own closet. This short story is approximately 3500 words.
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1. In the Sunshine
For Regan Morel, there's always been something missing in her life. Orphaned in infancy and raised by a reluctant aunt and uncle, she has never felt like she belonged anywhere or with anyone.
Now, in her early 20s and recently graduated from college, Regan is working to make her way in the world. Far away from her midwestern roots, she is waiting tables in sunny Cocoa Beach hoping one day to become a full-time teacher.
While her professional life is murky, her love life is uncomplicated at the moment. After a two-year relationship with playboy Eddie Levan, she's on her own and not minding it a bit. But Eddie does, and he wants Regan back. Eddie is use to getting what he wants, when he wants it. He thinks his one indiscretion - the excuse Regan used to dump him - is no big deal and if charm won't work to get her back back, well, there are other methods.
Meanwhile, police officer Matthew Fischer is visiting Cocoa Beach on a brief vacation. His divorce from Jen just became final and he needs a break, a fresh start. What better place to kick off the rest of his life than Florida? After a long Detroit winter, he needs blue skies and some sunshine to help get himself back on track.
The last thing Matt is thinking about is finding a new woman. But when he stumbles across Regan's path, everything changes. Instant, overwhelming attraction propels Matt to take a risk and that risk turns into a showdown with Eddie Levan.
In the Sunshine is a testament to the power of love to overcome all obstacles and how it can change the best-laid plans of those in its grips.
2. The Eden Effect
Eve Adams is envious.
She has raised her family and watched her children become successful. She has also been a great wife to George. But, in her heart of hearts, Eve always wanted something more than the life of a homemaker.
She watched as other women found freedom and fought their way from the secretary pool to the board room and knew she had what it took to do the same. So many regrets, at least about that portion of her life.
In The Eden Effect, Eve gets a second chance.
Long ago, George Adams inscribed their names on an apple tree in the middle of an orchard where they met and worked. Now he wants to find out if its still there. After a typical evening out, they stop by the long-since abandoned Culver’s Apple Orchard and find the tree.
To their surprise, it is still standing. While all of the other trees in the orchard are barren, George and Eve's tree has a single apple growing from it. Eve can't resist plucking it from the branch. Despite George's warnings, she bites into the apple. It's perfect in form and taste. Eve convinces George to eat.
And that’s all it takes to turn their world upside down.
Set it suburbia, The Eden Effect answers some of the questions we all ponder about the choices we’ve made in life. The grass is always greener, right? Eve Adams is about to find out...
Beth lives an ideal soccer-mom suburban lifestyle. It's a life she's grown accustomed to and she doesn't want to give it up. But Jackson needs to know the truth and that world she treasurers so much could be taken away.
Moving and packed with twists, Born Again is a quick read that will leave you thinking about the skeletons in your own closet. This short story is approximately 3500 words.
Free Previews:
1. In the Sunshine
For Regan Morel, there's always been something missing in her life. Orphaned in infancy and raised by a reluctant aunt and uncle, she has never felt like she belonged anywhere or with anyone.
Now, in her early 20s and recently graduated from college, Regan is working to make her way in the world. Far away from her midwestern roots, she is waiting tables in sunny Cocoa Beach hoping one day to become a full-time teacher.
While her professional life is murky, her love life is uncomplicated at the moment. After a two-year relationship with playboy Eddie Levan, she's on her own and not minding it a bit. But Eddie does, and he wants Regan back. Eddie is use to getting what he wants, when he wants it. He thinks his one indiscretion - the excuse Regan used to dump him - is no big deal and if charm won't work to get her back back, well, there are other methods.
Meanwhile, police officer Matthew Fischer is visiting Cocoa Beach on a brief vacation. His divorce from Jen just became final and he needs a break, a fresh start. What better place to kick off the rest of his life than Florida? After a long Detroit winter, he needs blue skies and some sunshine to help get himself back on track.
The last thing Matt is thinking about is finding a new woman. But when he stumbles across Regan's path, everything changes. Instant, overwhelming attraction propels Matt to take a risk and that risk turns into a showdown with Eddie Levan.
In the Sunshine is a testament to the power of love to overcome all obstacles and how it can change the best-laid plans of those in its grips.
2. The Eden Effect
Eve Adams is envious.
She has raised her family and watched her children become successful. She has also been a great wife to George. But, in her heart of hearts, Eve always wanted something more than the life of a homemaker.
She watched as other women found freedom and fought their way from the secretary pool to the board room and knew she had what it took to do the same. So many regrets, at least about that portion of her life.
In The Eden Effect, Eve gets a second chance.
Long ago, George Adams inscribed their names on an apple tree in the middle of an orchard where they met and worked. Now he wants to find out if its still there. After a typical evening out, they stop by the long-since abandoned Culver’s Apple Orchard and find the tree.
To their surprise, it is still standing. While all of the other trees in the orchard are barren, George and Eve's tree has a single apple growing from it. Eve can't resist plucking it from the branch. Despite George's warnings, she bites into the apple. It's perfect in form and taste. Eve convinces George to eat.
And that’s all it takes to turn their world upside down.
Set it suburbia, The Eden Effect answers some of the questions we all ponder about the choices we’ve made in life. The grass is always greener, right? Eve Adams is about to find out...
