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    Once Again: A Coming Home Short Story, #2
    Once Again: A Coming Home Short Story, #2
    Once Again: A Coming Home Short Story, #2
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    Once Again: A Coming Home Short Story, #2

    By Kristi Rose

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    From USA TODAY Bestselling Author Kristi Rose comes a second chance,feel good romance in this quick, just right short read. 

     

    Evie Barker needs a break. Between work and caring for her momma- she's burned out. When old flame Grady Duke moves in next door Evie realizes there's more lacking in her life than down time. 
    Neither can escape the wild attraction they feel, but taking a risk might be too much of a gamble for these opposites.

     

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVintage Housewife Books
    Release dateMar 22, 2015
    ISBN9781513053479
    Once Again: A Coming Home Short Story, #2

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      Book preview

      Once Again - Kristi Rose

      Once Again

      ONCE AGAIN

      A Coming Home Short Story

      KRISTI ROSE

      Vintage Housewife Books

      Contents

      Books by Kristi Rose

      Once Again

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Epilogue- One Year Later

      Chapter 1

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      Meet Kristi Rose

      Copyright © 2015 by Kristi Rose

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, without prior written permission.

      Vintage Housewife Books

      www.kristirose.net

      Publisher’s Note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. Locales and public names are sometimes used for atmospheric purposes. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, or to businesses, companies, events, institutions, or locales is completely coincidental.

      Book Layout © 2014 BookDesignTemplates.com

      Cover Design © 2023 Penji Designs

      Love Comes Home/ Kristi Rose. -- 2nd ed.

      ISBN 978-0-6925071-8-6

      Vellum flower icon Created with Vellum

      Books by Kristi Rose

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      Matchmaker’s Guidebook - FREE

      The Second Chance Short Stories can be read alone and go as follows:

      Second Chances

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      Reason to Stay

      He’s the One

      Kiss Me Again

      or purchased in a bundle for a better discount.

      The Coming Home Series: A Collection of 5 Second Chance Short Stories (Can be purchased individually).

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      Once Again

      For my critique group: Anya, Eryn, Gary and Rick. You all are amazing.

      THANK YOU <3

      Chapter 1

      WORD OF THE DAY: GAMBLE- ANY MATTER OR THING INVOLVING RISK OR HAZARDOUS UNCERTAINTY

      No matter how hard Evie Barker tried to manage each day, this one had gotten away from her. It had started as soon as she arrived at the nursing home where she worked, but before the actual paid portion of her day began. Like she did every day, she’d stopped by her momma’s room to feed her the specially made oatmeal she picked up from her favorite diner, Two Chicks and Bacon . But momma had been out of sorts. Crying, refusing to eat, and escalating to such a state of inconsolability she’d required a sedative.

      From there the day went to hell fast and included a patient falling in the shower—thankfully not while she was providing therapy—and a rampant, building-wide stomach bug, which made everyone, residents and staff, short tempered at best. The day’s tone spoke of a foreboding of tonight’s full moon or perhaps worse, an omen of something wicked this way comes.

      Pulling in her driveway, she forgot the disaster of the day and the state of her stained scrubs as she stared at the large U-Haul parked at the family-home-turned-frat-house next door. An old lobster trap, a telescope, an olive green trunk, and a lamp made from an old musket with a fringed shade were in the yard.

      Those items could go either way. Was it possible her new neighbor was an old man and not a college student?

      She wanted to cheer. A nice, quiet old man who would prune his bushes and keep to himself. Evie buried her face in her hands. What in the world was wrong with her that she was excited that her new neighbor might be elderly? She hated that after a year of neighbors who were frequently seen in the buff as they streaked down the street or hosted all night beer pong championships, she was desperate for the polar opposite. Yes, a nice old man who took advantage of the early bird special, played shuffleboard, and if she were lucky—after the day she had that was doubtful—one who would keep his eyes on the neighborhood would be a delight. Evie’s gaze settled on the telescope. Yeah, keep his eyes on the neighborhood by using his telescope to look into other’s windows?

      She weighed the probabilities: creepy old man, nice old man, college student. The odds didn’t look favorable.

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