Camino Ghosts (CAMINO #3) by John Grisham EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: John Grisham
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THE PASSAGE
None of the fifty or so guests wore shoes. The invitation specifically
ruled them out. It was, after all, a beach wedding, and Mercer Mann, the
bride, wanted sand between the toes. The suggested attire was beach chic,
which may have had one meaning in Palm Beach and another in Malibu,
and probably something else in the Hamptons. But on Camino Island it
meant anything goes. But no shoes.
The bride herself wore a low-cut white linen gown with an entirely
bare back, and since she had been on the island for the past two weeks she
was superbly tanned and toned. Stunning. Thomas, her groom, was just as
lean and bronzed. He wore a brand-new powder blue seersucker suit, a
starched white dress shirt, no tie. And of course no shoes.
Thomas was just happy to be included. He and Mercer had been
together for three years, sharing an apartment for the past two, and when
Mercer finally got tired of waiting for a proposal she had asked him, three
months earlier, “What are you doing on Saturday, June sixth, at seven
p.m.?”
“Well, I don’t know. I’ll have to check.”
“Say nothing.”
“What?”
“Say you’re doing nothing.”
“Okay, I’m doing nothing. Why?”
“Because we’re getting married at the beach.”
Since he was not exactly a detail person, he had little input into the
planning of the wedding. However, had he been detail-oriented it would not
have mattered. Life with Mercer was wonderful in so many ways, not the
least of which was the absence of responsibility for making decisions. The
pressure was off.
A guitarist strummed love songs as the guests sipped champagne. She
was a creative writing student of Mercer’s at Ole Miss and had volunteered
for the wedding. A server in a straw hat topped off their glasses. He, too,
was studying under Mercer, though she had yet to break the news that his
fiction was too weird. If she were a blunt person she would point out that he
was likely to earn more money tending bar at small weddings than trying to
write novels, but she had yet to gain tenure or the ability to discourage
students with little promise.
Mercer taught because she needed a salary. She had published a
collection of short stories and two novels. She was searching for a third.
Her last one, Tessa, had been a bestseller, and its success had prompted
Viking Press to give her a two-book contract. Her editor at Viking was still
waiting for the next story idea. So was Mercer. She had some money in the
bank but not enough to retire, not enough to buy the freedom to write fulltime with no worries.
A few of her guests had that freedom. Myra and Leigh, the grandes
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