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    Thanksgiving in Connecticut
    Thanksgiving in Connecticut
    Thanksgiving in Connecticut
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    Thanksgiving in Connecticut

    By May McGoldrick

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    Talented photographer Paige Coleman has stayed away from her beloved seaside Connecticut village of Stonington ever since being mortified by ‘viral’ YouTube video that captured her in the buff at the top of a whaling ship at Mystic Seaport. Now, four years later, Paige decides that the time has come to face up to her past when her quirky, eighty-six year old grandmother throws the mother of all Thanksgivings to celebrate her recent marriage to ‘younger man’ Ed Fenwick. But with hometown god and former flame Stanley Fenwick, grandson of the groom, sure to be a part of every event, Paige must now protect her heart as well as retain her sanity, even as her cougar-turned-matchmaker grandmother uses every resource at her disposal to rekindle old fires of passion. As Thanksgiving dinner looms, Paige must realize that the sacrifice of a little dignity is worth the home and family she has missed so much.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMay McGoldrick
    Release dateOct 2, 2012
    ISBN9781301739387
    Thanksgiving in Connecticut
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    May McGoldrick

    Authors Nikoo and Jim McGoldrick (writing as May McGoldrick) weave emotionally satisfying tales of love and danger. Publishing under the names of May McGoldrick and Jan Coffey, these authors have written more than thirty novels and works of nonfiction for Penguin Random House, Mira, HarperCollins, Entangled, and Heinemann. Nikoo, an engineer, also conducts frequent workshops on writing and publishing and serves as a Resident Author. Jim holds a Ph.D. in Medieval and Renaissance literature and teaches English in northwestern Connecticut. They are the authors of Much ado about Highlanders, Taming the Highlander, and Tempest in the Highlands with SMP Swerve.

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      Thanksgiving in Connecticut - May McGoldrick

      Thanksgiving in Connecticut

      Thanksgiving in Connecticut

      May McGoldrick

      MM Books

      Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Edition Note

      Author’s Note

      Recipe: SWEET POTATO AND APPLE CASSEROLE

      Preview of MADE IN HEAVEN

      Preview of TROPICAL KISS

      Also by May McGoldrick, Jan Coffey & Nik James

      About the Author

      Thank you for choosing this book. In the event that you enjoy it, please consider sharing the good word(s) by leaving a review … and connect with the authors. Thanksgiving in Connecticut

      Copyright © 2012 by Nikoo & James McGoldrick

      All rights reserved. Except for use in any review or face-to-face educational use, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including xerography, photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher, MM Books.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Chapter One

      Connecticut

      Saturday, November 17th

      Should Bob take the exit for Mystic? Ryan asked, sending the driver a sly look. We can drive to the Borough along the water.

      No, Paige croaked at her younger brother from the back seat. Her yogic breathing had quickly devolved into hyperventilation when she saw the highway sign for Tall Ships and Mystic Seaport. She closed her eyes to the scenic panorama of crystal-clear water and quaint cottages.

      Just ten minutes past Mystic and they’d be in Stonington Borough, the homey little village situated on a narrow, mile-long peninsula jutting into Fisher’s Island Sound. From the old stone lighthouse at the Point, visitors could see Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New York. A couple of blocks away, the last commercial fishing fleet in the state still brought in fresh lobster, scallops, and flounder to the Town Dock.

      Paige loved the Borough. She’d grown up here. But she felt a lot different about the place since The Incident four years ago.

      Twelve million, three hundred thousand, forty-five views. Ryan's announcement sliced through Paige's brief moment of nostalgia.

      I may have to kill you, she whispered.

      Seriously, Paige. That’s really impressive. Bob was looking at her in the rearview mirror. My producer would cheerfully sacrifice a choice part of his anatomy for that kind of coverage on YouTube.

      Bob Morse was a famous celebrity chief on the Cooking Channel. Paige Coleman was a hard-to-make-ends-meet photographer who, because of this video, had been too embarrassed to come back to the only place she considered home.

      As they passed the exit for Mystic, she turned her gaze away from the view of the seaport and the masts of the tall ships down the river. But she couldn’t stop her mind from recalling that disastrous ten-year high school reunion four years ago.

      Always a bit of an outsider at school, Paige didn't know what possessed her to go solo to the reunion they held at Mystic Seaport the Friday of that Thanksgiving weekend. What made things worse was drinking way too much and falling prey to a prank her classmates played on her.

      Naturally, the fuzzy YouTube video showing Paige climbing butt-naked up the rigging of the whaling ship Charles W. Morgan, and carrying their class banner, was a hit.

      Even more horrible, ten seconds after reaching the very top, she'd suddenly remembered her fear of heights. Screaming, crying, and begging for help only made for better entertainment, of course, and the cellphone video continued to capture the pathetically frantic, comically naked creature clinging to the mast.

      Four years later, she still had splinters in her thighs.

      The four minute, nineteen second video had gone viral after being posted. No names, no location, no close-up of her face, nothing that categorically tied Paige to the incident, but somehow, everyone in the world seemed to know.

      The greatest personal embarrassment for Paige wasn't even captured on video. After what felt like an eternity, Stanley Fenwick had left his gorgeous girlfriend on the dock, climbed the rigging, pried Paige’s fingers and legs off the mast, tucked her under one arm, and carried her sobbing and slobbering to the dock.

      She was such an idiot.

      Paige had given away her virginity to Stanley Fenwick the night they'd graduated from high school. She’d been totally in love with him for as many years as she cared to remember.

      But what good is it having a ‘knight in shining armor’ when you can never bring yourself to look him in the face again?

      Okay, we’re almost there, Ryan warned.

      Paige realized they had already exited the highway. She glanced at the familiar stone walls lining the country road leading to the Borough.

      Trying to fight the rising panic, she envisioned her grandmother’s face.

      Tough, quirky, full of life and surprises, Grandma Shirley was Paige's absolute favorite person in the world. She idolized the old woman for the way she lived her life. She had no fear. Nothing embarrassed her. Clichéd or not, Live every day to the max! was her mantra—and be remembered for the love you have for everyone and everything.

      Getting the call last month that her eighty-six-year-old grandmother was eloping to Vegas with her younger man, a seventy-six-year-old retired minister from Stonington, was hardly a shocker. It was right in line with Shirley’s personality. The only problem was that the groom was Edward Fenwick, Stanley’s grandfather.

      Now Shirley planned to have a weeklong post-wedding celebration at Thanksgiving to celebrate the union. As the only granddaughter of the older woman, Paige was given no choice. The same way that she wasn’t given an option as to where she stayed. The whole family had to room at the house on Fenwick Point.

      Minutes later, they were driving down the causeway that connected Fenwick Point to Stonington Borough. Paige picked up the camera from the seat next to her and held it against

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