A Small-Town Affair
“Don’t give it all to the gulls.”
Jack patted him on the arm and turned back to Charlie. She was staring at him with a soft smile. “You know Crazy Ed,” she said.
“Yeah, we’ve met.”
“No, I mean, you know him. Don’t you?”
Which quickly leads to declarations of love and a marriage proposal. Love always prevails in Carnelian Cove.
And then the final, dastardly thing happens — your beautiful, nearly finished waterfront project burns to the ground! Who do you blame?
Not Crazy Ed, he didn’t do it. Instead, it is most certainly a deliberate act possibly performed by an unlikely web of conspirators … or maybe just one of them. There are confusing clues: the sleazy self-interested councilman, an environmental group’s slogan spraypainted on the construction site trailer, the blue truck of a disgruntled former employee of Jack’s. We don’t know, by the end of Book Two, who actually did it. But we are comforted by the knowledge that it wasn’t just the impersonal act of a troubled individual, but that there is someone with a motive to blame, and perhaps there was even a real conspiracy. Good is about to rout Evil.
OK, but how do you fend off Evil that comes from the Outside?
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THREE Comments
Comment / By Susan Fox / Nov. 12, 2009, 7:11 p.m.
This rated a cover article? You’ve got to be kidding.
Comment / By Thirdeye / Nov. 14, 2009, 5:34 p.m.
Fluffy topic. Fluffy article. Fluffy reporter.
Comment / By Jeff Musgrave / Nov. 16, 2009, 12:58 p.m.
Not so fluffy…
You can smell the stench of Terry’s greenscare propaganda, it burns the eyes stronger than pepperspray. It’s not surprising that she promotes big development and attacks activists in her novel(her husband works for Eureka Ready Mix).
Kind of reminds me of Caltrans Richardson Grove Improvement Project(RIP) manager Kim Floyd’s husband Bryan Plumley. I’m sure Kim’s pursuit of the RIP has nothing to do with big development(and Plumley’s ties to Goldman Sachs).
I always thought that romance novels were trashy. Thanks for reaffirming my convictions.
Great article Heidi!