Welcome back to the ninth installment of Friday Blog Hop! 

This will be my last excerpt post for STITCHES. In the coming weeks our Blog Hop will feature the thoughts and anecdotes from Baby Boomer Lit authors. So, please enjoy our last posts of book excerpts and get ready to learn about what makes boomer authors tick.

Thanks to all of you, The Hop is growing! Enjoy the exciting new reads on the sites of those Boomer Lit authors who are also posting today. Click the link at the bottom to connect!

Happy Reading!

This scene from STITCHES is taken from Chapter 18. 

Jean and Spence are on their way to London to have the magical fabric analyzed by the Victoria and Albert Museum. Figuring the best way to travel safely with the fabric is in plain sight, Jean has pieced it into the back of a denim jacket. In this scene, Jean has to get the jacket through security at the airport.

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“Ma’am, you need to take your jacket off,” the TSA agent said, nodding his head toward the conveyer belt.

Oh, please, no. Slipping her arms from the sleeves, she placed the jacket carefully on top of her purse in the gray bin. The jacket disappeared into the X-ray machine. She stepped quickly through the electronic archway in her stocking feet and waited on the other side for Spence to follow her through.

“Bag check!” shouted a voice from behind the X-ray machine.

Panic rose in her throat. She swallowed hard to tamp it down. She watched two TSA agents point at the screen behind the machine and whisper to each other. Spence stood in front of the archway, a what-the-hell look on his face. The security agent waved him forward, and Spence stepped through the archway.

Jean waited, not saying a word, as the TSA agent picked up the jacket after it emerged from the other side of the X-ray machine. He moved down the length of the chute and set the jacket down on a separate table. She padded after him with her shoes, purse, and carry-on bag jumbled in her arms. She set them on the floor and mouthed back at Spence, “I don’t know. Just wait.”

    

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Welcome back to the eighth installment of Friday Blog Hop! 

Here we share a taste of wonderful new offerings of Baby Boomer Lit. While the stories vary widely, the emotion will always run high. Thanks to all of you, The Hop is growing! Enjoy the exciting new reads on the sites of those Boomer Lit authors who are also posting today. Click the link at the bottom and connect!

Happy Reading!

This scene from STITCHES is taken from Chapter 7. 

Raleigh Coulter, the son of the woman who held the estate sale, knows that Jean and Spence have found the valuable fabric in his mother's chest. He wants it, not for its magical properties, but for its potential value.  And the FBI wants him for insider trading. Raleigh needs money fast. Here we find Raleigh staking out the Collinses' house. He's planning to break-in after he watches Jean and Spence leave.

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Raleigh slowed his Porsche as he approached the Collinses’ house. All of the triangular clerestory windows on the front of the house were patterned glass.

“You can’t see in,” he muttered as he eased the car by the house. “Pretty cool.”

Some windows were one-way shields, but from keeping such a close eye on his mother’s neighborhood, he knew old windows. If he couldn't see in, then the Collinses couldn't see out.

The house looked to be one story, but he could see the peak of a second level on the back. Tiny pine cones littered the driveway and swirled around in circles when the wind kicked up.

Raleigh watched a car approach in the rearview mirror. Spooked, he continued around the block, circled back around, and pulled up in front of the house next door. He idled in park and planned out what he wanted to do.

The same car he’d seen in the rearview, a black Crown Victoria, drove toward him from the opposite direction. The man inside looked at him intently as he passed.

      “Huh...” 

    

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Welcome back to the seventh installment of Friday Blog Hop! 

Here we share a taste of wonderful new offerings of Baby Boomer Lit. While the stories vary widely, the emotion will always run high. Thanks to all of you, The Hop is growing! Enjoy the exciting new reads on the sites of those Boomer Lit authors who are also posting today. Click the link at the bottom and connect!

Happy Reading!

This scene from STITCHES is taken from Chapter 7. 

The Collinses' maine coon cat, Mycroft, is the first to alert Jean and Spence that something isn't quite right about the fabric they've found in an old chest. Mycroft exhibits strange behavior after lying on the fabric . . . and there's just been a loud bang on the window.

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“What the heck was that about? He looks fine now.” She slid the door shut and ran back to living room.

“Umm, look at this.” Spence was staring at the fabric.

“Spence! Where are the birds? Where are...the...birds?” The fabric was empty. Only the flowering vines remained.

It made no sense at all. Their gaze rose in unison to the bird bath in the back yard. Around the rim of stone calla lilies perched three enormous pheasants, stretching their wings and dipping their beaks into the sparkling fresh water to take a drink. They were an exact match to the birds in the fabric. The long spikes of their tail feathers touched the ground. One launched its heavy wings into the air, followed by the second and then the third. Jean and Spence ran to the window. The birds’ iridescent bodies rose higher and higher, past the tops of towering fir trees and into the sun. Jean and Spence shielded their eyes from the glare and followed the birds’ path until they disappeared.

“Spence...” she said, gawking out the window.

“Yeah, I really did see it.” 

    

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Welcome back to the sixth installment of Friday Blog Hop! 

Here we share a taste of wonderful new offerings of Baby Boomer Lit. While the stories vary widely, the emotion will always run high. Thanks to all of you, The Hop is growing! Enjoy the exciting new reads on the sites of those Boomer Lit authors who are also posting today. Click the link at the bottom and connect!

Happy Reading!

This scene from STITCHES is taken from Chapter 7. 

After Jean finds the stunning fabric in the bottom of the chest, she and Spence do a little fantasizing over a bottle of wine - too much wine. Here we have Jean waking up the next morning with a hangover and recalling the events of the previous evening..

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     Jean smiled as she thought about last night’s party for two. Through all five of Spence’s new albums, they’d sipped wine, fantasized about the fabric, and imagined the possibilities for what it could be. The fabric got pulled out and put away at least three times.

As the evening wound down, they laughed about their favorite TV show, Antiques Roadshow, a public television program of experts who estimated the worth of attic treasures from all over the country. She and Spence played out what the show’s experts might say about the fabric. Their favorite part of the program was when the most obscure object brought in an estimate far beyond what anyone could have imagined.

    
 “Can you imagine, Spence, if we took this to Antiques Roadshow? ‘Ma’am, you have a national treasure...cha-ching!’ Should I weep or just start running around the studio whooping?” Spence roared with laughter as she practiced her various reactions. 

 Now, she pulled back the comforter and padded quickly to the bathroom, unprepared for the early morning chill. Coffee was what she needed, and also a few minutes to herself to look at the fabric with more sober eyes.

IF YOU LIKE WHAT YOU SEE, STITCHES IS AVAILABLE AT 

CREATESPACE, AMAZON.COM AND BARNESANDNOBLE.COM!

DON'T FORGET - CHECK OUT THE OTHER BOOMER LIT AUTHORS WHO ARE POSTING TODAY! CLICK HERE!