Tourist Season by Brenda Novak EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Brenda Novak
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Ismay Chalmers had never faced such terrible weather. A farmer’s daughter,
born and raised in a small town in northern Utah, she’d seen the occasional
blizzard during winter, a twenty-year drought, and scars left by wildfires
once. But she’d never experienced anything even close to a hurricane. “I
can’t believe this is happening,” she told Remy Windsor, her fiancé, over
the phone.
“You have nothing to worry about,” he said, but his words sounded
hollow. She was alone on an island off Cape Cod that was only ten miles
long and five miles wide, facing shrieking gale-force winds that seemed
determined to claw the house apart, and dark roiling clouds that blocked out
the sun so completely it could’ve been nighttime instead of midafternoon.
“Easy for you to say. You’re sitting in sunny LA,” she grumbled. Just
imagining the balmy spring weather he was experiencing made her wish
she’d stayed in California. She would’ve waited for him, but after passing
the bar, there’d been nothing for her to do while he continued to study
almost 24/7 for the third and final part of the United States Medical
Licensing Exam, which would enable him to become a medical doctor.
Instead, she’d flown to Mariners Island ahead of him to get settled while
he finished up. He was supposed to join her in three weeks. Then they’d
spend the rest of May and all of June in paradise, unwinding from the
pressure they’d been under, both before they knew each other and after—
obtaining their bachelor’s degrees at UCLA, passing the exams necessary to
get into higher education at the same school, and earning their advanced
degrees.
“The storm won’t be as bad as it seems,” he insisted. “Like Martha’s
Vineyard and Nantucket, Mariners is an outlier that gets far more
nor’easters than hurricanes. Those can be bad enough, of course, but they
only come in the winter. And hurricane season doesn’t start until August.”
When the wind had first come up, she’d checked the internet. She knew
what he said was accurate. But there were always exceptions.
“Hurricanes almost always slam into the coast farther south,” he
continued as she moved to the living room window to be able to watch what
was happening outside. “They lessen in severity before moving north, or
they curve into the Atlantic.”
Feeling the house shudder around her did nothing to build her
confidence. Windsor Cottage—a play on Windsor Castle using his family’s
last name—was located at the end of a lane called “Land’s End,” because it
was on the easternmost tip of the island.
When a jagged bolt of lightning electrified the sky, she could see the
angry froth of the sea churning not far away—watched a giant wave rise up
and come crashing down on the beach. “It’s hard to feel safe when I’m
afraid the house will blow down and be swept into the ocean,” she said.
“The house won’t blow down and be swept into the ocean,” he said with
a chuckle. “It’s been in the family for almost a century. Everything will be
fine.”
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