The Holiday (SHIPWRECK KEY #8) by Stephanie Taylor EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Stephanie Taylor
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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Sunday
Three days until Christmas. Three days to wrap all the gifts, bake all the
desserts, fill the stockings, and enjoy the festivities of the island. Three days
of having both of her girls on Shipwreck Key, and also of having her
beloved grandson there in her arms.
Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas” is playing in the front room,
and from where Sunday Bond stands, she can see the twinkling lights of the
tree she’s set up in the corner of her dining space. A long strand of glittering
white tinsel is draped across the mantel of her fireplace, and her kitchen
table is covered in a red-and-white striped cloth with little embroidered
Santas dancing across it.
Banks, Sunday’s boyfriend, has strung colorful
lights around the outside of her beach bungalow (is it even kosher to call
one another “boyfriend” and “girlfriend” in their 50s? Sunday doesn’t care–
it just feels so nice to think of having a boyfriend instead of a jerk of a
husband, and she lets the word boyfriend roll around in her head like a
smooth marble in her palm), and she loves the juxtaposition of sunny blue
skies, sparkling sea, and white sand against her festive Christmas decor.
Sunday is beside herself with joy. As she stands in her small, cozy
kitchen with its window over the sink that looks out at the water, she feels
an enormous sense of gratitude and goodwill towards her very best friend,
Ruby Hudson.
Who could have imagined all those years ago, when they
first met, that one day they’d be living on an island in the Gulf of Mexico,
enjoying the fruits of their hard work in raising solid daughters and
surviving Washington D.C.? Could they ever have pictured themselves
without the husbands who had turned them into political wives (Ruby, now
widowed because President Hudson had flown his single engine plane nosefirst into the water, and Sunday, single because she’d finally made good on
her long-held promise to divorce Peter Bond after their time in the White
House was finished)?
And furthermore, what crystal ball might they have
looked into in order to see that after all the child-rearing, charity
volunteering, political-wifing, and heartbreak–after all of that–they’d find
themselves both wildly in love with good men? Really, truly, honestly good
men?
Sunday takes a kitchen towel from the top of a mixing bowl where her
dough has been rising, and she leans forward to inhale deeply the warm,
yeasty smell. Baking bread for the dinner she’s hosting that evening is the
last thing on her to-do list, and Sunday prepares the dough for the oven,
sliding the pan inside to bake while she takes a quick shower.
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