Summer on Highland Beach (SUMMER BEACH #3) by Sunny Hostin EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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The Wicked Witch of the Beach
May 2022
Olivia stood on the serene shore of Highland Beach. Though quiet, it
buzzed with the same thread of energy as her other favorite places—a
delicate silken cocoon filled with pride and history and safety.
A place carried out by the ancestors, a place to lay your head down and
let your soul rest. The founders made Highland Beach, a Black resort town
near Annapolis, into a haven like Sag Harbor and Oak Bluffs.
Its very existence was revolutionary, spurred by discrimination. The
founders—Major Charles Douglass, the son of Frederick Douglass, and his
wife Laura—didn’t go low or high but headed for the middle path, working
around racism, carving out a new path of their own by purchasing and
developing beachfront property south of Bay Ridge.
Olivia felt proud looking at the sandy beachfront where famous Black
figures like Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Paul Laurence
Dunbar once rested. They needed the calm waters of the bay to wash away
the poison of racism. It was their refuge.
At least for a little while.
She inhaled, and the salt in the air soothed. Shoots of grass surrounded
the edge of the beach. Wooden planks stood high in the bay, creating a safe
buffer between man and water.
Olivia could feel the tension in her body release as the salty water kissed
her toes. She’d been in Highland Beach for only forty-eight hours. The
entire time she avoided people, quietly watching from the house as
neighbors strolled by, walking their dogs and greeting each other.
They were entirely too friendly. Too social. She didn’t mind it normally,
but she planned to visit here for only two weeks.
And she had absolutely no plans to reveal that she was the mayor’s secret
love child.
Which was why she’d quietly crept out of her father CJ’s home at dawn
to give her restless body a sweet boost of adrenaline by jogging a few
blocks around the neighborhood of not only Highland Beach but also its
sister community, Venice Beach.
Now she glanced at her Apple Watch, walked away from the shoreline,
then slipped on her sneakers and resumed her run before anyone stopped
her for a friendly chat.
Even through her self-imposed seclusion, Olivia could still feel the
special beat to Highland Beach. It wasn’t noisy, like a busy city with a
symphony of horns. It wasn’t quiet and isolated. But there was a constant
thrumming, something that felt communal and intentional and steady—like
a mallet on a bass drum.
The sound was faint, like a well-kept secret, but it thrummed throughout
her body, pulling her in.
She didn’t understand the yearning.
Or rather, she did not want to know. She had only one mission—to get to
know her father. A man she didn’t even know existed a few months ago.
Breathe.
Throat tight with tension, she massaged her neck without breaking her
stride. The air flowed through.
She ran away from the water, breathing in the salty air, creating her own
chaotic rhythm with her pink sneakers tapping impatiently against the
pavement.
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