Coco's Somewhat Excellent Adventures:Hawaii: Coco's Somewhat Excellent Adventures, #1

By Cheryl Sterling

Sometimes you’re up, and sometimes life grinds its heel in your face.
Coco Trueheart is feeling down and out. Her husband divorced her for a bimbo half her age. Her business is taking a direction she doesn’t like. And her only child is leaving the nest forever.
Her life takes a further dive when she’s forced to travel to Hawaii. I know, like, right?
As she begins her odyssey from an unsure divorcée to the creator of a new, vibrant life, she encounters star-crossed lovers, a series of misadventures and seat companions who range from obnoxious to merely dead.
Coco’s Somewhat Excellent Adventures: Hawaii is the first of ten planned short stories.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cheryl Sterling
• Release date: Sep 22, 2016
• ISBN: 9781536580990

Cheryl Sterling

Cheryl Sterling is an American author of several paranormal and contemporary romance novels and short stories. Cheryl is a co-founder and past president of Grand Rapids Region Writers Group in Grand Rapids, MI. She has conducted several workshops that focused on the writing craft and co-chaired their first “I’ve Always Wanted to Write a Book” regional conference. Her passion is learning and improving her craft, but mostly, she is a teacher. Cheryl currently lives in Phoenix with her husband.

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Chapter One

COCO TRUEHEART RAN her thumb over her ring finger then remembered she'd removed her diamond when her rat-bastard husband had run off with a twenty-year-old barista.

I hope she kills him with sex. She hoped he'd heave his pasty-white, flabby body onto the anorexic, little gold-digger and pump her until his heart exploded. It would be great if it happened before he climaxed, leaving him as frustrated as she'd been during their twenty-two year marriage. Better still if a full-length mirror was part of the decor and he could watch himself flop around like a dead chicken.

Why, no, doctor, what makes you think I have anger issues? she muttered to the empty office of Trueheart Destinations, the travel agency she'd started with her best friend, Rose. No anger at all. Nothing here but good times.

She flicked her keyboard and frowned as she noticed a chip in her Bleeding Heart red nail polish. It had taken six months after the divorce to screw up her courage and face embarrassment at The Nail Garden, and what good had it done? Three chips within a week.

Damn, you, Mr. Maxwell. She wondered if rumors of his diluting bottles of clumpy polish were true.

Find new salon; she scribbled into the moleskin notebook that went everywhere with her.

Coco turned back to her keyboard. The specialized and personalized service of Trueheart Destinations continued to pay the bills, and she had a honeymoon to plan.

Several minutes later, the back door to their strip mall store jangled shut, and Brannigan sauntered in.

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