The Lavender Haze: Three Stories of Flirting with an Affair

By Paul Hina

In the title story of The Lavender Haze: Three Stories of Flirting with an Affair, Micheal comes home to find Kelly, his wife's best friend, has come for a visit. Through the evening, we learn that he and Kelly had a brief affair before the wedding that, to Michael's surprise, still lingers.
In our second story, Lost to the Lake, Ray is going through a life crisis that he can't shake. When he returns to work from a vacation that wasn't as restorative as he hoped, he sees Regina, a new employee, and experiences a lovesickness he's never known. He finds himself caught between the allure of love at first sight and his established life with his family.
On the Terrace, the final story, offers a window to a tantalizing conversation between a poet and his muse after she confronts him one morning.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paul Hina
• Release date: Jun 10, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370345496

Paul Hina

Paul Hina is the author of eight novels including Imeros, Let it Snow, and Double Play. His eighth novel, The Other Shore, was released in March 2016 with the story From the Boathouse in a single volume, The Other Shore: Two Stories of Love and Death. The Lavender Haze: Three Stories of Flirting with an Affair is his most recent release and includes three new stories. Hina has also published four collections of poetry including Such Deliberate Loveliness, Of Wanting and Rain, Origami Moonlight and Music Only We Know. Paul currently lives in Athens, Ohio with his wife, Sarah, and their two children.

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