Welcome to Friday Blog Hop! Through a collaboration between Goodreads.com and Boomer Lit Authors, we share snippets of our work on our blogs every Friday. See below for links to other great authors who are posting today.  Happy Reading!

Jean Collins has just walked away from her corporate career. She and her husband, Spence, are about to embark on a new life. In this scene, Jean has just turned down an offer from her boss to relocate to Boston.

Jean quietly switched off the green-shaded library light on her desk. She made a special gesture of plucking the shiny, silver pen from its stand. Spence had given it to her when the company was last sold. She shut the door to her office with a soft click.

Now that pleasant anticipation had turned to certainty, why did she suddenly feel so hurt and victimized? As she descended in the elevator to the lobby, she realized she hadn't banked on feeling this sad. She felt like peeling off every stitch of her black pantsuit and tossing the pieces on the floor behind her as she walked out of the elevator. She didn't  of course. Her heels clicked through the shiny, marble lobby toward the glass double doors to the parking garage.

“This is ridiculous. Go home and celebrate, you idiot!” she muttered and pushed open the heavy glass door. Every evening, she opened the door on the right side; today she went out through the left. She wanted every single thing to feel new. The decision to leave the corporate life behind wasn't easy, but it was a risk she and Spence were willing to take. There had to be more to life than this. Where it would lead, they had no idea.

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I'll be posting a new snippet from my own STITCHES each Friday. I might even give you a sneak peak of the second book, BRUSHES. Stay tuned!

Now click below to check out these great authors who are posting today:

http://elysegrant.blogspot.com/
Elyse Grant is the author of THE PRINCE CHARMING HOAX

http://mutinousboomer.wordpress.com/
Marsha Roberts is the author of CONFESSIONS OF AN INSTINCTIVELY MUTINOUS BABY BOOMER

http://laurieboris.com/
Laurie Boris is the author of numerous books. Her latest is DON'T TELL ANYONE

http://claudenougat.blogspot.com/
Claude Nougat is a prolific author living in Rome. Her latest book is HOOK IN THE SKY

http://blog.mjmurphy.com/
Michael Murphy's latest novel, GOODBYE EMILY, will take you back to Woodstock!

http://www.libbyhellmann.com/wp/
Libby Hellmann is a writer of ELLIE FOREMAN mysteries and other thrillers. GREAT BLOG!