Wild Sands (ePub)

Jason is an overworked, stressed-out software manager who hasn't had a vacation ever. One day he blows a fuse and books a stay at an oceanside B&B on a weekend when he's supposed to be working.

The B&B is owned by two women. Robin is a reserved painter who has always repressed her emotions except at the canvas or the piano. Sheila has never repressed an impulse in her life: she latches onto Jason the moment he arrives and drags him into athletic daytime activities when all he wanted was a few days of peace and quiet.

But the B&B has an alter-ego at night, when Sheila is asleep and Robin bakes the breads, cakes, and rolls she serves for breakfast every morning. Jason is also an insomniac, and when he wanders into the cinnamon-spiced kitchen, Robin invites him to stay and chat.

This becomes the pattern for his monthly visits: a frenzy of activity with Sheila during the day and quiet conversations in Robin's kitchen at night.

He could have been happy leaving things this way, but his friends hound him with questions, his mother is already planning his wedding to one of the two women (as soon as he picks one), and Sheila has convinced herself that Jason intends to marry her. But Jason is coming to believe that his secret moments with Robin are the best thing that ever happened in his life—except that one of her neighbors has been steadily wooing her for years, and Robin is on the verge of saying yes.

Somewhere in the crashing chaos surrounding the Wild Sands B&B there must be a key to all of their happiness.