A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Ashley Poston
- Language: English
- Genre: Historical Romance
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Country Roads
I WAS LOST.
Not metaphorically—at least, I didn’t think so—but physically lost,
hundreds of miles from home, in the middle of nowhere.
No cell service. An outdated map. A gas tank running on empty.
Oh, and I was alone.
When I started this road trip yesterday, before eight hours on the
interstate and a pit stop at a dinosaur-themed hotel, and eight more hours
today, I didn’t think I’d lose my way on the last leg of the journey. I was so
close—the cabin where I’d be staying for the next week was within reach—
but Google Maps kept glitching as I drove my way through Rip Van Winkle
country, until my phone screen was nothing more than beige land and my
little blue dot roamed, without a road, in the middle of nowhere.
I’d taken the same road trip with my best friend for the last two years to
the same cabin in Rhinebeck, New York, to meet the same people in our
Super Smutty Book Club. I shouldn’t have gotten lost.
But this was a year of firsts.
Overhead, angry-looking clouds rumbled with thunder, dark purple with
the coming night and heavy with rain. I hoped the weather held up until I
found the cabin, unearthed a bottle of wine from my back seat, and settled
down in one of the rocking chairs on the front porch with a romance book
in my hands.
The promise of a week of wine and happily ever afters had kept me sane
all year, through boring English 101 classes with half-asleep students and
AI-generated papers on Chaucer and colleagues who swore that War and
Peace was a riveting read. The English department was rife with people
who would love to talk to you for hours about Beowulf or modern literary
theory or the intersectionality of postmodern texts. But for one week out of
the year, I looked forward to shucking off my professorial robes and
disappearing into the twisting roads that hugged the soft hills of the
Catskills, and reading about impossible meet-cutes and grand romantic
gestures, and no one would judge me for it.
And when everyone else pulled out because life got in the way, it was
just going to be my best friend, Pru, and me—and that was perfect, too. I
needed this. Pru didn’t understand how much. No one did. So when she told
me last week that she couldn’t go, either, it surprised me.
No, that was the
wrong word—it disappointed me—but I didn’t want it to show. I sat on the
couch opposite her, The Great British Baking Show in the background,
digging my fingers into the comforter I’d pulled over my legs because she
always kept her and Jasper’s apartment freezing.
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