Serendipity by Becky Chalsen EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Becky Chalsen
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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After six years in California, Maggie was surprised. She didn’t expect
to feel so charmed by the beach.
Surprise was an all too familiar feeling for Maggie these days, though.
Recently, it seemed all her would-be plans had stood up and flung
themselves out the window, leaving rushing emotions in their wake. She
rotated between bemusement and bewilderment, shock and fear, and hope
and panic. But Maggie was a writer, a master of spin, so the word she chose
to encapsulate it all was simply surprise.
It had a better ring to it.
For instance: In the past week alone, Maggie had chosen to feel not
depressed but surprised as she handed in her security pass at the studio lot,
saying goodbye to the Melrose office she’d spent more time in than her own
home while working as Kurt’s assistant for the past two years. She was not
ashamed but surprised as she packed up her month-to-month rental in Los
Feliz afterward, throwing what few belongings she had into cardboard
boxes and old suitcases, loading the luggage into the trunk of her bright
blue Ford Escape. Its bumpers were still scratched and peeling from Los
Angeles parking mishaps. (She never quite mastered the art of the parallel
park.) Maggie was surprised, and definitely not regretful, as she pulled out
of her driveway for the last time and made her way onto the darkened
highway headed east, leaving visions of moviemaking glory in her rearview
for good, like roadkill on the 405.
No, she was none of those things, those misfortunate mindsets. She
couldn’t be. She was simply surprised.
And well, perhaps the biggest surprise of all was happening right now.
Maggie, sitting at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, toes in the sand, as the
sun began to set on the first evening of an extraordinarily unexpected
weekend on Fire Island, New York.
Talk about a plot twist.
A return to Ocean Beach had no place in Maggie’s original summer
plan, so how had she gotten here?
Technically, she’d taken the Long Island Rail Road from Penn Station
to Bay Shore, followed by a five-minute shuttle bus to the docks and a halfhour ferry to Ocean Beach, her favorite of all the Fire Island towns.
Metaphorically, she’d made a thousand wrong turns until the universe
somehow brought her back to where it all started.
Back, against all odds, to Long Island.
Brenna and Quinn had been nothing but kind since Maggie reached out
with the news of her sudden LA departure and the announcement that she
was moving back home. On that same awful morning, the one when she
realized her career was over before it had even begun, she had logged on to
Facebook with tears still pooled in her eyes. Like kismet, she saw that
Brenna and Quinn had posted with a crowdsourced plea for a subletter to
fill the vacant space in their Murray Hill apartment. “ASAP, ASAP,” the
status had read.
The post felt like a billboard for Maggie to follow. She brushed off their
numbers in her phone contacts and within hours, a subletting arrangement
was formalized. To New York she’d go. Home for the summer—she told
herself that it felt like the premise of an early-aughts comedy, hijinks and
humor around the corner.
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