The Rom-Com Agenda By Jayne Denker EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Authors: Jayne Denker
- Publish Date: 10 January 2023
- Language: English
- Genre: Contemporary Women’s Fiction
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Size: 1 MB
- Pages: 316 pages
- Price: Free
Leah Keegan was positive she was not meant to be a superhero. Or an alien. Or
whatever other life-form came in a peculiar shade of near-fluorescent lime green.
A disturbingly large amount of her skin was sporting the lurid tint at the
moment, proving that this was not her color. Besides, the last time she had seen
this particular shade on a humanoid, the poor thing was being pursued by one
Captain James T. Kirk, and no thank you to that.
The green had to go.
She plopped down on the narrow boards ringing the inside of Ward
Peterson’s tiny, rustic bare-bones boathouse, just the right size for a small
motorboat and nothing more. The interior was now painted said screaming
alien-green, solely so Ward could more easily locate it and navigate his boat back
in after a long day of fishing. His eyesight wasn’t so good these days, he had told
her, especially at dusk. Leah preferred not to speculate on how much his eyesight
was affected by how many beers he had indulged in on any given fishing
expedition.
Leah picked at the dried paint that had somehow managed to cover almost as
much of her as it had the inside of the boathouse. But doing that tugged on the
fine hairs of her forearm, which just plain hurt, so she let it be for now and
admired her handiwork instead. Seventy-five dollars and flights of fancy about
being a different sort of creature. Not bad for a day’s work.
Now it was time to pack up the paint and brushes and rollers, haul her butt
out of the boathouse, and get home to a cool shower. She forced her tired bones
to move but paused mid-boost, a wash of melancholy knocking her back down
to the boards. Except for the siren song of that shower, there was no need to rush
home. She kept forgetting. It was a strange thing to get used to, and she hadn’t
succeeded just yet. It would come. In time. She knew that—in her head, at least.
Her heart was still catching up.
She sat quietly, leaning back against the coarse boards of the boathouse,
watching the gentle flow of the water. From here all she could see were other
docks, other modest properties huddled up along the inlet. Follow this stretch of
water, however, and it soon opened out onto the vast, powerful St. Lawrence
River, moving northeast to the Atlantic Ocean. Beyond the huge vessels in the
shipping lanes and the various small bits of land in the river that gave this part of
New York State its name, the Thousand Islands, lay Canada.
On this side of the
river, the lush green flatlands gave no hint that the Adirondack Mountains
would poke up, ancient and imposing, less than a hundred miles away.
But here, in this boathouse, on this inlet, a bit of peace—from the tourists,
who were starting to wrap up their summer vacations as each day grew
progressively cooler and shorter, from the river traffic, from the thoughts that
filled her head day and night.
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