Josephine "Josie" Shelby Sullivan is the daughter of a New
York Times
best-selling author of romance novels. Her relationship
has always been
closer to her father than her mom Shelby, but she loves
them both dearly.
A single mom with a 16 year old daughter; Orli is the
perfect daughter.
Discovering her pregnancy during her freshmen year of
college, her
choice was to go it alone. Orli's father Grant Cooper was
on the cusp of
beginning his career as an attorney, and Josie's
aspirations didn't
include marriage at the time even though she was deeply in
love with
Grant.
Grant has been in Orli's life at all times and she
visits him in Boston
often. Josie's home is Cedar Key, Florida where she has
just been laid off
from her nursing position in Gainesville. An avid
knitter, Josie is asked to
help out at Yarning Together while one of the owners is
recovering from an arm injury. This fills in for income
until she is offered a
position with Dr. Simon Mancini who is starting a new
practice on the
island. Feeling an interest more than as an employee,
Josie is confused
as to her true feelings for her first real love, Grant.
The group of close-
knit friends surrounding Josie share her love of knitting,
even offering
Josie the chance to hold a knitting class for men.
Shelby's medical scare
shakes Josie to the bone, creating a new intimacy with her
mother that is
totally new to her. With Grant in her life, now is the
time to consider that
her own true happiness might mean realizing that love,
home and
happiness is where the heart is not the geographical
locality in which she
resides.
The warm and fuzzy feelings between the women of the
knitting group
and surrounding family, is what life is all about. A
strong and stubborn
woman determined to make it on her own, has to face facts
that it is ok to
need someone else. Terri DuLong has a knack for setting
her characters
in small but warm communities where love and kindness
abounds.
FAREWELL TO CEDAR KEY is
not the first I have read by this author and definitely
not the last. All
endings lead to new beginnings and Terri DuLong includes
this in her
writings.
"You'll fall instantly in love with Cedar Key and this homespun knitting community." --Lori Wilde New York Times bestselling author Terri DuLong welcomes you to the colorful community of Cedar Key, Florida--a place where hearts are warm and friendship is true… Josie Sullivan adores her Cedar Key home. It's been the ideal place to raise her daughter, Orli, who's just turning sixteen. Now that Josie has realized her dream of becoming a registered nurse, she's been offered the perfect job too--helping Dr. Simon Mancini run his new practice. Until the clinic opens, Josie is filling in at Yarning Together, where she launches a series of knitting classes for men. Yet for all the vibrant changes, there are some tangled threads. Josie's romance-author mother, Shelby, receives a worrying diagnosis. And though Josie has always guarded her independence, her connection to Orli's father, Grant, seems to be rekindling. Most of all, as Shelby's college classmates rally around their dear friend, Josie begins to see that "home" is more than a place;it's the relationships woven into each life, strand by strand…
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