Intentions

By Kari Kilgore

Angela Garcia builds websites to help make other people's dreams come true. 

Now one of her childhood dreams waits, ready to come to life.

Sometimes procrastination feels like the safest choice. 

And sometimes your intentions make all the difference.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Spiral Publishing, Ltd
• Release date: Jun 23, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386416197

Kari Kilgore

Kari Kilgore started her first published novel Until Death in Transylvania, Romania, and finished it in Room 217 at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, where Stephen King got the idea for The Shining. That’s just one example of how real world inspiration drives her fiction. Kari’s first published novel Until Death was included on the Preliminary Ballot for the Bram Stoker Award for Outstanding Achievement in a First Novel in 2016. It was also a finalist for the Golden Stake Award at the Vampire Arts Festival in 2018. Recent professional short story sales include three to Fiction River anthology magazine, with the first due out in the September issue. Kari also has two stories in a holiday-themed anthology project with Kristine Kathryn Rusch due out over the holidays in 2019. Kari writes fantasy, science fiction, horror, and contemporary fiction, and she’s happiest when she surprises herself. She lives at the end of a long dirt road in the middle of the woods with her husband Jason Adams, various house critters, and wildlife they’re better off not knowing more about. Kari’s novels, novellas, and short stories are available at www.spiralpublishing.net, which also publishes books by Frank Kilgore and Jason Adams. For more information about Kari, upcoming publications, her travels and adventures, and random cool things that catch her attention, visit www.karikilgore.com.

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Intentions

For Angela

Intentions

Kari Kilgore

Spiral Publishing, Ltd.

Chapter 1

Angela Garcia breathed in the rich cinnamon and ginger aroma of her third cup of coffee as she watched her wife sip from a huge mug of Earl Gray tea. Bright morning sunlight streamed through the wavy paneled glass of the breakfast nook windows, filtered by huge oak trees older than Angela and Julie put together.

She’d grown up in this neighborhood full of hundred-year-old houses, a precious bit of peace right on the edge of busy Atlanta, but Angela was still delighted to wake up here every single day. Giving up their expensive, modern downtown apartment to move back into her childhood home had changed their lives in more ways than she could count.

This cheerful bright yellow room, the sleek kitchen beside them, and the entire house basked in the love and attention the two of them had lavished on everything over the past six months. Their silky calico cat Lorrie purred her approval from her tiny window seat in the sun.

With Julie leading the way and Angela’s enthusiastic participation, the outdated and gaudy late-Eighties décor had given way to calm earth tones, wood, and stone.

An open and airy home office for Angela’s freelance publishing and design business had replaced her parents’ overly formal dining room, and most of the time she was glad about that.

Right now, she would happily plan a torturous dinner party for ten than face the deceptively simple project she’d been putting off for