THE BIRTHDAY LIST
By Devney Perry
Standalone
Release Day – April 3, 2018
Happily married to her college sweetheart, Poppy lived a blessed
life with the husband of her dreams. Then everything changed. She is no longer
a wife. She is no longer the envy of her single friends. Now, people look at
her with pity as they whisper a single word behind her back.
Widow.
Years after her husband’s tragic death, years of pain and sorrow and
wishing for the life she’ll never get back, Poppy decides to finish Jamie’s
birthday list. She’ll do the things he wanted to most. Because maybe, just
maybe, if she can complete his list, she can start to live again.
Poppy expects going through the birthday list will be hard. She
expects it to hurt. But what she doesn’t expect is Cole. Could the man who
delivered the news of her husband’s death and shattered her heart be the one to
help her put it back together again?
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EXCERPT
“That’s quite a list.” Cole nodded toward the
journal in between bites.
“It is.” My smile faltered at the way his jaw
hardened.
“Are you planning on doing these all by yourself?”
“Um, yes.” How else was I going to get through them
all?
“That’s going to take a while.”
“I hope not,” I sighed. “My goal is to get them
done before New Year’s.”
“What?” His spoon dropped into the jar, clinking
against the glass. “That’s less than six months away.”
“I know.” Just thinking about all I still had to do
made my shoulders fall. “I thought I could do it, but with the restaurant and
some of the bigger things on the list, it will take longer. I was really hoping
to have it done before Jamie’s birthday.”
That seemed impossible now. With the restaurant and
all of the other things I was adding to my daily schedule, piling on more was
going to wear me thin. If I didn’t let up, my self-imposed deadline would
stress me to the max.
Which meant it would take just that much longer to
put this list behind me. Could I do it if I added another year? Maybe two?
I didn’t have to do this all so soon. But I wanted
to. I wanted to do this for Jamie and let it go. Every day, I was getting
stronger. I was getting back on my feet. I was starting to live again—for me.
And until the list was done, I’d still be living
for Jamie.
“Look.” Cole leaned his elbows on the table. “I
don’t want to step on your toes. This is an awesome list and he had some cool
ideas. If you want to do them on your own, I understand. I get that this is
incredibly personal. But if you’d like, I’d be glad to help you with some of
these.
“What?” I didn’t know what made me smile more. That
he thought Jamie’s list was cool or that he wanted to help. Regardless, I was
beaming. “You’d really help?”
About the Author
Devney lives in Montana with her husband and two children. After working in the technology industry for nearly a decade, she abandoned conference calls and project schedules to enjoy a slower pace at home with her kids. She loves reading and, after consuming hundreds of books, decided to share her own stories.
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