キャミー・タング著「戌年」連載小説 プロのドッグトレーナーであるマリ・ムトウは、厄年を迎えている。 犬小屋と訓練所の改築をしながら、いつも不服そうにしている家族と同居することになった。母と姉に言わせれば、犬の毛とよだれかけにまみれる仕事は、家族にとって恥ずべきものだという。彼女は元カレを説得し、数ヶ月間犬を預かってもらうことにした。しかし、彼の兄は、数週間前に彼女が誤って車に追突した、怒り狂ったセキュリティ専門家であることが判明する。 アシュウィン・ケイトウは十分な問題を抱えている。叔母が玄関先に現れ、同居を希望している。彼は彼女にすべてを借りているので、断ることができません。母親が家を出て行った後、ネルおばさんはアシュウィンと弟を引き取り、愛のあるキリスト教の家庭で育てた。しかも、弟のダスティもアパートを追い出され、居場所を求めている。しかし、彼は犬を飼っている。そして、その犬の飼い主は誰だと思いますか？ しかし、旧友でオアフ島のノースショアでデイスパを経営する私立探偵のエディサ・ゲレロから依頼を受ける。マリの施設で奇妙な破壊行為があり、3年前に失踪したエディサの妹の財布を発見する。エディサはマリが危険な目に遭っているのではと心配する。警備の専門家であるアシュウィンがすでにマリを知っていることを知ったエディサは、忙しい若い女性を密かに監視することを彼に依頼する。 アシュウィンは、活発でのんびりとしたドッグトレーナーに不本意ながら惹かれていく。彼女は、幸せそうな母親を思い出させる。その母親の裏切りによって、彼は人と距離を置くようになったのだ。マリは、アシュウィンの冷たい外見を見抜き、彼が家族に忠実な男であることを認める。彼は、彼女のキャリア選択を批判するだけの母親や姉とは違う。 マリのバラバラな家庭とアシュウィンのバラバラな家庭の中で、過去を隠そうとする人たちから、彼らの周りに危険が迫ってくるようになる。彼らは、影で動く秘密に光を当てることができるのか？ 過去に発表されたパートへのリンクはこちら。 *** 第8章 - 恐ろしくも真っ白な不動産書類 『みんな仲良くできないのかな？』 マリは無用に力を込めて箱に本を投げ入れた。最近、なぜ彼女は人生の中で全員と言い争いをしているのだろう？もしかすると、これは本当に悪いアイデア
Captain’s Log, Supplemental
Blog book giveaway:
To enter, go to the blog links below and post a comment there.
My Thursday book giveaway is Dark Hour by Ginger Garrett.
My Monday book giveaway is The Guy I’m Not Dating by Trish Perry.
You can still enter both giveaways. On Thursday, I'll draw the winner for the Dark Hour and post the title for another book I'm giving away.
Win an iPod Nano! Exclusively for my newsletter YahooGroup subscribers, I have a huge contest running until January 31st! Get more info on my contest page!
Click to join Camys_Loft
Check out Christian Women Online (click on the button above) to see what other women are blogging about this quote:
"Has someone seen the life I planned?
It seems it's been misplaced
I've looked in every corner
It's lost without a trace..."
~ Beth Moore~
From the poem: "The Life I Planned"
My life has changed SO much, yet it came back to my original life-dream, the one I put away so many years ago.
I wanted to be a writer. My mother, bless her heart, encouraged me to write, even though she knew the chances were slim and the pay was pathetic.
But being the practical child I was, I knew I couldn't live the bohemian artist's lifestyle and so I switched.
To physics.
Yes, hidden under the flowery stories about unicorns was a particle physicist. I was going to slam sub-particles together and make big explosions.
But in college, the math killed me. Or maybe it was because my teacher—a grad student—couldn't speak English very well.
So I switched to psychology. Why? Well, I'd been in counselors for many years in my childhood because of my brother's ADD, so why not?
Then I recommitted my life to God. (That was way cool.)
Then I started getting ambitious (as if being a physicist wasn't impossible enough). How about a medical missionary? I switched to pre-med.
I applied to medical schools. I got an interview, but no offers. Because of all those biology and chemistry classes, I got a job at a pharmaceutical company doing biology research.
Then I went to this small Asian church because of a friend of a friend, and instantly clicked with the junior high school girls I met. And instantly knew this was what God wanted for me—to work with youth.
He asked me to give up medical school. I struggled a bit, then said sure. (The next day, I got an invite to interview at one of the schools I had applied to. Talk about a knife in the gut as I tossed the paper in the trash.)
Fast-forward 7 years. I got laid off. God said, "Why don't you take up writing again?" Fun!
Captain Caffeine got laid off. I had to go back to work, but the burning was in me to write. I fasted and prayed, talked it over with Captain Caffeine (who got a job by then), and quit my job for 6 months.
God gave me a book contract right at the end of those six months.
Writer --> physicist --> psychologist --> doctor --> biologist --> writer
Makes perfect sense, huh? I couldn't have planned it better myself!
Get Colleen Coble's e-book! Best-selling romantic suspense author Colleen Coble wrote a trio of books for Steeple Hill Suspense, her Great Lakes Trilogy, under the pen name Colleen Rhoads. The first book, Windigo Twilight, is on sale this week at Fictionwise.com as an e-book!
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook41339.htm?r=10a23
Normally, Steeple Hill books go out of print really fast, but this series has been so popular that it's still available.
TMI: (Camy's overshare section)
Writing: I wrote a review for Mary DeMuth's novel, Watching the Tree Limbs (below).
I am still in the midst of plotting. It's depressing because I think I have even less of a plot than I first thought.
Diet: Captain Caffeine fixed my exercise bike! I was on it for an hour on Sunday (boy does my butt hurt).
Blog book giveaway:
To enter, go to the blog links below and post a comment there.
My Thursday book giveaway is Dark Hour by Ginger Garrett.
My Monday book giveaway is The Guy I’m Not Dating by Trish Perry.
You can still enter both giveaways. On Thursday, I'll draw the winner for the Dark Hour and post the title for another book I'm giving away.
Win an iPod Nano! Exclusively for my newsletter YahooGroup subscribers, I have a huge contest running until January 31st! Get more info on my contest page!
Click to join Camys_Loft
Check out Christian Women Online (click on the button above) to see what other women are blogging about this quote:
It seems it's been misplaced
I've looked in every corner
It's lost without a trace..."
~ Beth Moore~
From the poem: "The Life I Planned"
My life has changed SO much, yet it came back to my original life-dream, the one I put away so many years ago.
I wanted to be a writer. My mother, bless her heart, encouraged me to write, even though she knew the chances were slim and the pay was pathetic.
But being the practical child I was, I knew I couldn't live the bohemian artist's lifestyle and so I switched.
To physics.
Yes, hidden under the flowery stories about unicorns was a particle physicist. I was going to slam sub-particles together and make big explosions.
But in college, the math killed me. Or maybe it was because my teacher—a grad student—couldn't speak English very well.
So I switched to psychology. Why? Well, I'd been in counselors for many years in my childhood because of my brother's ADD, so why not?
Then I recommitted my life to God. (That was way cool.)
Then I started getting ambitious (as if being a physicist wasn't impossible enough). How about a medical missionary? I switched to pre-med.
I applied to medical schools. I got an interview, but no offers. Because of all those biology and chemistry classes, I got a job at a pharmaceutical company doing biology research.
Then I went to this small Asian church because of a friend of a friend, and instantly clicked with the junior high school girls I met. And instantly knew this was what God wanted for me—to work with youth.
He asked me to give up medical school. I struggled a bit, then said sure. (The next day, I got an invite to interview at one of the schools I had applied to. Talk about a knife in the gut as I tossed the paper in the trash.)
Fast-forward 7 years. I got laid off. God said, "Why don't you take up writing again?" Fun!
Captain Caffeine got laid off. I had to go back to work, but the burning was in me to write. I fasted and prayed, talked it over with Captain Caffeine (who got a job by then), and quit my job for 6 months.
God gave me a book contract right at the end of those six months.
Writer --> physicist --> psychologist --> doctor --> biologist --> writer
Makes perfect sense, huh? I couldn't have planned it better myself!
Get Colleen Coble's e-book! Best-selling romantic suspense author Colleen Coble wrote a trio of books for Steeple Hill Suspense, her Great Lakes Trilogy, under the pen name Colleen Rhoads. The first book, Windigo Twilight, is on sale this week at Fictionwise.com as an e-book!
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook41339.htm?r=10a23
Normally, Steeple Hill books go out of print really fast, but this series has been so popular that it's still available.
TMI: (Camy's overshare section)
Writing: I wrote a review for Mary DeMuth's novel, Watching the Tree Limbs (below).
I am still in the midst of plotting. It's depressing because I think I have even less of a plot than I first thought.
Diet: Captain Caffeine fixed my exercise bike! I was on it for an hour on Sunday (boy does my butt hurt).
Comments
I was a math major too, until I switched to the dark side...English)
And at one time I wanted to be a doctor too.
And I was a youth pastor and a young life leader.
And my husband SHOULD be a barista (he's certainly a captain caffeine)
No go on the physics, though.
Darn.
I thought we were twins for a second there.
Thank you for sharing...
hehe I know that weird path. It's amazing how God does things!
I never wanted to be in science but I did want to produce TV commercials and plan out advertising campaigns. Now I plan errand running for a 17 year old, a husband and a 4 year old, while wondering WHY I continue to sign up for NaNoWriMo, why the house never stays tidy, and why my books AREN'T selling like I want!!!
I love it, and I wrote my own essay over at my place!
oh and i saw on the FIRST blog that we're going to be promoting your book in sept/oct. woooo!!
and thanks for keep writing about riding the bike. i need to start again. i've been slacking off due to lots of homework..and it's starting to show :(
b) I was blog surfing today and noticed on another site you won a free book. And I thought, "Hm, isn't this the chick who posted this: My husband has threatened to chuck my books if I don't get rid of them, so every Monday and Thursday, I list either a new or gently used book to give away. on her blog? :)
Stop the obsession, Camy!
Sarah
P.S. What am I saying? My husband consistently tells me I have too many books and I still buy them. :)
None of my flounderings were so prestigious as "physicist" or "biologist" though. At the moment, I'd give my left foot for the chance to be a homemaker, writer, or a farmgirl – or some mix of the three.
I'm glad you found your way back to something you love. Good luck on your NaNo novel! I can't wait to get started!