The Promise of Redwood Cove (Prequel)

By Alesha Cary

It's the Spring Festival in Redwood Cove, with its outdoor grilled salmon dinners and local handmade crafters' booths. As the town prepares for the celebration, the newcomers and townfolk alike share one relatively quiet day.

This short prequel introduces the characters in the other three books:

The Mermaid of Redwood Cove (Meaghan and Griffin)
The Beacon of Redwood Cove (Libby and Darren)
The Shaman of Redwood Cove (Crystal and Alex - and Ronnie)

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Redwood Cove is a fictitious small town on the far Northern California coast. The area seems to draw spirited creative types who are more comfortable in nature than in big cities. The stories of Redwood Cove are contemporary fiction that include romance with a slightly paranormal twist.

This book is approximately 35 pages long.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Career Life Press
• Release date: Oct 7, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301171347

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The Promise

of Redwood Cove

Redwood Cove Series

- Prequel –

By Alesha Cary

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PUBLISHED BY: Career Life Press

Copyright © 2013 by AleshaCary.com

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced in any format, by any means, electronic or otherwise, without prior consent from the copyright owner and publisher of this book.

This is a work of fiction. All characters, names, places and events are the product of the author's imagination or used fictitiously.

This short book is a prequel to the Redwood Cove series.

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Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

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Chapter One

The countryside was beautiful, but Crystal was getting tired. It felt like she'd been driving for hours on the sparsely trafficked road and she needed to get out and stretch. She hadn't seen many others sharing her journey as she drove from San Francisco to Oregon. Of course, she'd been preoccupied. But that was to be expected.

Coming out west was her own idea. She'd made a mess of things with her sister - and her sister's boyfriend. So she'd run away. As far away as she could get.

Not that she could blame either one of them for being upset. She'd been stupid and manipulative. And ultimately sorry. Very sorry. She knew she could never put things back the way they'd been, so running away seemed the next smartest thing for her to do. In some ways it was her chance to start over again.

Originally she'd planned to settle in San Francisco, thinking she could disappear into the crowded city - just one more anonymous face among the many. But that hadn't worked out so well.

She'd missed her friends and their close-knit circle. She soon found that being alone in a big city was worse than being alone in a small town. So, she decided to check out Oregon. She'd heard so much about it - small towns, open spaces, tree-huggers and all.

She was so caught up in her thoughts that she didn't realize how low on gas she had gotten until she heard the warning chime and saw the light come on her dashboard. Dang, that meant only a few more miles. She couldn't remember how long it had been since she'd passed the last gas station, and the highway seemed to stretch away with no sign of civilization close by.

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