Quiet Storm, Season 2, Episode 6 (Rising Storm)
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Authors: Julie Kenner
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Quiet Storm
By Julie Kenner
Rising Storm
Season 2
Episode 6
Story created by Julie Kenner and Dee Davis
Quiet Storm, Episode 6
Rising Storm, Season 2
Copyright 2016 Julie Kenner and Dee Davis Oberwetter
ISBN: 978-1-945920-00-4
Published by Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated
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This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination and are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or establishments is solely coincidental.
Quiet Storm
By Julie Kenner
Rising Storm, Season 2, Episode 6
Secrets, Sex and Scandals …
Welcome to Storm, Texas, where passion runs hot, desire runs deep, and secrets have the power to destroy… Get ready. The storm is coming.
As Mallory Alvarez and Luis Moreno grow closer, Lacey longs for forgiveness. Brittany and Marcus have a true meeting of hearts. Meanwhile, Jeffry grapples with his father’s failures and finds solace in unexpected arms. When things take a dangerous turn, Jeffry’s mother and sister, as well as his friends, unite behind him as the Senator threatens his son…
Julie Kenner (aka J. Kenner) is the
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Praised by Publishers Weekly as an author with a “flair for dialogue and eccentric characterizations,” JK writes a range of stories including super sexy romances, paranormal romance, chick lit suspense, paranormal mommy lit, and, with
Rising Storm
, small town drama.
A former attorney, JK lives in Central Texas with her husband, two daughters, and several cats. One of her favorite weekend activities is visiting small towns in the Texas Hill Country. Visit her website at www.juliekenner.com and connect with JK through social media at
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Acknowledgments from the Author
For all the readers who found a home in Storm, thank you!
Dear reader –
We have wanted to do a project together for over a decade, but nothing really jelled until we started to toy with a kernel of an idea that sprouted way back in 2012 … and ultimately grew into Rising Storm.
We are both excited about and proud of this project—not only of the story itself, but also the incredible authors who have helped bring the world and characters we created to life.
We hope you enjoy visiting Storm, Texas. Settle in and stay a while!
Happy reading!
Julie Kenner & Dee Davis
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Table of Contents
An excerpt from Blinding Rain, Rising Storm Season 2, Episode 7, by Elisabeth Naughton
Lacey Salt stood beneath the massive Storm Oak and stared at the ground, now dappled by the early afternoon sun. Finally the Texas heat was fading, and there was an actual chill in the autumn air that made it pleasant for the tourists on the square this beautiful Saturday.
She pulled the pale pink sweater she’d thrown on over her simple white T-shirt tighter around her. Not really for protection against the chill, but in defense against her thoughts that today seemed as wind-tossed as fallen leaves whipped up by a thunderstorm.
She sighed. She’d been coming here more and more over the last few weeks, usually in the hours after school. This was the spot where the bench and the plaque would be placed in honor of her brother Jacob’s memory. It was her pet project, and even though it hurt to think about the reason why the town needed a bench and a plaque at all, underneath that hurt there was comfort. And even a little bit of pride for herself that she’d come up with this idea. Mostly, though, it made Lacey happy to know that her brother wouldn’t be forgotten by the people of Storm.
Her frequent visits to the tree had also made her realize that she felt close to Jacob here. Sometimes she even talked out loud to him, and that was a comfort, too. She told him how much she missed him. She even confessed about what a bitch she’d been lately. And she told him that she didn’t quite know how to make amends and get her friends back.
Most of all, she told him about their mom, Celeste, who had been spiraling down ever since Dakota Alvarez had dropped her bomb, revealing Ginny’s lie and making it pretty damn clear that the baby she carried wasn’t Jacob’s after all, but the spawn of Lacey’s slimy uncle, Sebastian Rush.
The news had destroyed her mom, who had looked at Ginny’s growing belly as if the child would be Jacob reborn. And even though Aunt Payton and Grandma Bethany had tried to drag Celeste out of her funk, nothing seemed to do the trick. Lacey’s older sister Sara Jane hadn’t made a dent either. And their father, Travis, couldn’t get through to Celeste at all.
She seemed tragic. Like a character in one of those Shakespeare plays they’d had to read in school last year. And those stories never did ended happily.
Honestly, Lacey was worried. More than worried, actually. So she’d come down here today in the hopes that spilling her fears to Jacob might help. And for the more practical purpose of buying some flowers for the entrance hall and kitchen table. Before Jacob died, her mom had always kept the house perfect, with lots of fresh flowers, usually from the carefully tended gardens in the front and back yard of the Salt home.
But those gardens hadn’t been tended in months, and the flowers had been overrun with weeds. So Lacey had decided to buy some arrangements from Pushing Up Daisies. Maybe if the house looked more like the way it used to, then her mom would start acting more like the old Celeste, too.