The Book Club #3
Dafina
August 2022
On Sale: July 26, 2022
Featuring: Reese; Cherie
320 pages ISBN: 1496735447 EAN: 9781496735447 Kindle: B09FFXPPZD Trade Size / e-Book Add to Wish List
I've done it! I've finally made the decision to
move to Coates Island, North Carolina. It has taken me
more then a year to think about leaving Connecticut, and now
that I've put everything into motion, I know I've done the
right thing. Now it's time to let my book club friends
know.
Cherie Renee Thompson reread what she'd
written. She'd begun keeping a journal at fifteen, a
month before enrolling in the prestigious prep school where
she'd been awarded a full academic scholarship. Days
after moving into her dorm room, she'd found herself writing
down her thoughts and reactions to what had become an
entirely different lifestyle. After the first year,
her entries decreased from one every night to three or four
each week. And, most times, it was to release her
frustration about having to live in two worlds: one when
interacting with students who benefited from unlimited funds
from their wealthy parents, and the other when returning to
her old neighborhood, with low-income housing, where crime
and poverty had become the norm rather than the exception.
Capping her pen, Cherie dropped
it and the journal into the tote on the passenger
seat. She started up her car and headed in the
direction of the bridge connecting the mainland to the
island, and five minutes later she maneuvered into the
parking lot of the Seaside Cafe for the last time before
returning home.
Home.
The word conjured up memories that had made
her into the woman she had become. Connecticut was the
state where she'd been born, raised, educated, worked and
lived; however, it had taken just two visits to Coates
Island for her to conclude she hadn't been living but
existing. She'd lost the only man she'd ever loved,
and she'd lost the child they'd made together. She'd
traded the child she'd carried for nine months, in a moment
of weakness and madness, for a lifestyle she'd always
dreamed about. She'd made a deal with a man who'd
concocted a plan she'd been unable to refuse. Shaking
off the memories, Cherie walked into the restaurant.
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