Bøger udgivet af Jacqueline deGroot

This book is about an eight-mile barrier island on the Atlantic coast. It faces due south, on the same latitude as Los Angeles, California and Damascus, Syria. The island enjoys a mild climate and its oceanfront consists entirely of sandy beach. It wasn't an island until 1934 when it was severed from the mainland by the construction of a section of the Intracoastal Waterway. On March 1, 1524, Giovanni da Verrazano, a Florentine in the employ of the King of France, made his first landfall at nearby Cape Fear. He stayed anchored off shore in the area that included the island for three days before exploring the North American coast. We are indebted to Verrazano for describing the inhabitants of our area in his day: These people go altogether naked except only that they cover their privy parts with certain skins of beasts like unto martens, which they fasten onto a girdle made of grass, very artfully wrought, hanged about with tails of diverse beasts, which round about their bodies hang dangling down to their knees. Some of them wear garlands of birds' feathers. The people are of color russet, and not much unlike Saracens, their hair black, thick and not very long, which they tie together in a knot behind, and wear it like a tail. They are well featured in their limbs, of mean [average] stature, and commonly somewhat bigger than we. After Verrazano, what is now Ocean Isle, slept in solitude for hundreds of years, disturbed only by a visit in 1791 of George Washington on his Southern Tour and by the U. S. Coast Guard's mounted sailors who patrolled the island's beach in WWll. In the 1920s, the long repose ended with an awakening by prohibition and the jazz age. Young flappers expended energy dancing the Charleston and imbibing bootlegged gin in Ocean Isle's first commercial structure, a honky-tonk on the island's welcoming beach.

A more mismatched couple one could not imagine. Dev, a combat veteran, whose family business is military arms manufacturing enjoys going on safaris and game hunting trips. Gentry, a sweet, unpretentious animal resurrection and veterinary student whose girl-next-door manner of dress and abundance of springy chestnut curls calls to mind a Hummel plate of a girl on a farm feeding chickens. But the moment Dev opens the door to the kitten catcher with the flashing green eyes, coral colored lips, and light dusting of freckles he is slayed. Pablo's intro to romance with Trixie is less random, even though they met due to a car accident. Practical considerations lead to an arrangement that suits both of them-she, as a highly specialized home car nurse, yet homeless-will follow him back to Italy to tend to his ailing mother while living at the family villa in Tuscany. Brent leaves New York City to go to The Cockpit to work alone in peace and quiet at the onset of COVID, only to discover that Palo's sister, Alyssa, who was stranded at JFK when her flight home was cancelled, is already in residence. Sean confronts his secretary, Sandy, after he finds an over-the-top erotic romance about a secretary and her boss in his luggage. And Cam, conflicted over his sexuality, finally gets smitten and finds the girl of his dreams. But now Tammy, as his protégé, is under his protection. Once again, he's conflicted-until circumstances have them hying across the country in an RV to save Granny.

The Beach Boys of Sunset Beach-ten men who graduated from Stanford together go on to become successful in their vastly different fields while remaining good friends as they take on life's challenges. Five years earlier, they pooled their money and bought a beachfront lot on Sunset Beach and built a magnificent beach house. Once a year in July, they come to the beach house for a two-week reunion with their former dorm mates, who now live all over the world. This particular summer, there is an undercurrent of restlessness though. Are they ready to find that special someone who will share a future they can build on, and a love that consumes them? During two magical weeks at the beach house, Cupid steps in to bring each man his soul mate, and in ways both comical and anguished leads them all on the path to true and lasting happiness.One of the main stories in this book is based on a K.S. journal entry. The story touched me so much, I had to write it and give it a happy ending.A Kindred Spirit Legacy Book by Jacqueline DeGroot