Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts EPUB & PDF – eBook Details About
- Author: Nora Roberts
- Genre: Mothers & Children Fiction, Women’s Friendship Fiction, Women’s Domestic Life Fiction
- Publish Date: 2 November 2010
- Size: 1.3 MB
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Status: Avail for Download
- Price: Free
PROLOGUE
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GRIEF CAME IN WAVES, HARD AND CHOPPY,
BUFFETING AND BREAKING the heart. Other days the
waves were slow and swamping, threatening to drown the
soul.
People—good, caring people—claimed time would heal.
Parker hoped they were right, but as she stood on her bedroom
terrace in the late-summer sun, months after the sudden,
shocking deaths of her parents, those capricious waves
continued to roll.
She had so much, she reminded herself. Her brother—and
she didn’t know if she’d have survived this grieving time
without Del—had been a rock to cling to in that wide, wide
ocean of shock and sorrow. Her friends Mac, Emma, Laurel, a
part of her life, a part of her, since childhood. They’d been the
glue mending and holding all the shattered pieces of her world.
She had the constant, unshakable support of their longtime
housekeeper, Mrs. Grady, her island of comfort.
She had her home. The beauty and elegance of the Brown
Estate seemed deeper, sharper to her somehow, knowing she
wouldn’t see her parents strolling through the gardens. She’d
never again run downstairs and find her mother laughing in the
kitchen with Mrs. G, or hear her father wheeling a deal in his
home office.
Instead of learning to ride those waves, she’d felt herself
being swept deeper and deeper down into the dark.
Time, she’d determined, needed to be used and pushed and
moved.
She thought—hoped—she’d found a way, not only to use
that time, but to celebrate what her parents had given her, to
unite those gifts with family and friendships.
To be productive, she mused as the first spicy scents of
coming autumn stirred the air.The Browns worked.They built
and they produced and they never, never sat back to laze on
accomplishments.
Her parents would have expected her to do no less than
those who’d come before her.
Her friends might think she’d lost her mind, but she’d
researched, calculated, and outlined a solid business plan, a
sturdy model. And with Del’s help, a fair and reasonable legal
contract.
Time to swim, she told herself.
She simply wouldn’t sink.
She walked back into the bedroom, picked up the four thick
packets she’d set on her dresser. One for each of them for the
meeting—though she hadn’t told her friends they were coming
to a meeting.
She paused, took a moment to tie back her glossy brown
hair in a tail, then simply stared into her own eyes, willing a
spark to light in the deep blue.
She could make this work. No, no, they could make this
work.
She just had to convince them first.
Downstairs, she found Mrs. Grady putting the finishing
touches on the meal.
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