Inspired very vaguely by a favourite song on mine. A Guy's Wife makes an unexpected announcement whilst they're eating dinner one evening. But apparently the announcement might not have come as so much of a surprise to some of the others sharing the table!
Andy is alone on a Caribbean cruise and he's bored. Beth is a beautiful but neglected housewife and looks like just the challenge Andy needs. But is he up for it?
Sam's marriage seems to be getting stale. They try marriage counseling but his life goes up in flames. Can a woman and her daughter on the run from her husband help him believe in love again? And just what shade of gray are those lovely eyes?
I wanted to include this story along with my reposting of The Sun Also Rises. I tend to carry over characters from story-to-story. And I know that it can be confusing when people from prior stories appear in the middle of new ones. Especially if a lot of time has passed as is the case here. This was written over a year after the Sun Also Rises. I wanted to explore the theme of infidelity between people who are essentially made for each other. The title is from a Hemingway short story.
A story in the TRC Universe
First Name, Second Name:
The blacksmith's son, Devlin Fittlegault, sets out on his first adventure to rescue a captured knight and earns a new name.
Last Name Parts 1-2:
Devlin is older and leads his own adventuring party. After winning a costly battle, his employer refuses to pay up. His revenge nets him a new title, and something more.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire… Or in the case of 23-year-old Vincent Hargrove — out of a tragic past, into an unfaithful marriage. When it gets to be too much he runs away. Isolated in the woods hoping against hope that time will heal all wounds. Isolation in the deep woods of central Oregon he finds peace in solitude. As he develops a small parcel of land left to him by his grandparents he gets along with minimal human contact, until a desperate foreign woman crosses his path. / (Reviews)