Sugar and Spice
READING AGE 18+
Mallory Baxter lives a perfect life filled with perfect straight lines inside of a perfect house. She has goals. She has aspirations. And she has a father who’s convinced her she has to be a machine if she has any hopes of amounting to anything.
Jay Dawson is chaos incarnate, in Mallory’s eyes. He lives the life of a drifter, unconcerned with straight lines or aspirations. He takes things day by day. So when he shows up at Stella Cucina, ready to start his summer job, Mallory has to face a reality where the perfect, straight lines that she’s always held onto no longer matter.
Will Jay be the variable that finally overrides the system and teaches her how to be human? Or will Mallory’s straight lines lead her to her goals, away from the town of Emerald Bay, and out of Jay’s life for good?It’s a prequel to “Off the Menu,” and the first in my spin-off series, “Emerald Bay Love Stories.”
Potential trigger warnings: weed/cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, fighting
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You left without saying bye.
I sat in my Honda, staring at the screen of my phone until it faded to black. My windows were down, and I could smell the thick savory scent of the pot roast my mom was cooking inside the stilt house. Normally, the smell would be comforting. Now, though, it mixed with the odor of Tiffany’s perfume that ……
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