Back To Boardwalk

By Lisa Loomis

A story of acknowledging that the crazy unexpected twists and turns life throws can lead one to where they are meant to be.

Stepping off the plane Morgan Mallory knows being back in San Jose, California is going to bring back entirely too many memories. With her family in tow, this trip is more than just the usual getaway, it’s a step back into her past.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lisa Loomis
• Release date: Oct 22, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463011720

Lisa Loomis

Lisa Loomis was born in Oakland California and raised in San Jose until she was a sophomore in high school. Her father then took a job in the San Diego area where he moved the family to Escondido, California (or hickville as she called it). She finished high school at San Pasqual High then went to junior college at Palomar JC, ultimately graduating from San Diego State University with a BS in Finance. Lisa started a career in mortgage banking in San Diego, California, briefly shifted to a corporate job as a territory sales representative, and then back to mortgage banking in 1996 when the family moved from the San Diego area to Park City, Utah. The move to Park City was prompted by a desire for a lifestyle change. Both she and her husband Dennis wanted to raise their two children in a smaller town environment that was still close to a large city. In Park City Lisa not only ran a mortgage branch but simultaneously helped Dennis run a successful construction company, Loomis Construction. Working full time, running a construction company in off hours, and raising two children was never easy but Lisa seemed to handle it all pretty well until the financial meltdown of 2008. That is when the wheels came off...completely. Finding both her career in mortgage banking and the family business almost vanish overnight Lisa went back to a passion she’s always had, writing. It took Lisa almost four years to write “Boy In A Band”, stopping and starting, telling herself she couldn’t write a book. Once it was written Lisa foolishly thought the hard part was finished. In the last ten years Lisa has continued to help her husband with their construction business as well as spends time writing. Lisa’s currently lives and writes in Park City, Utah. She has been married for twenty-nine years and enjoys spending time with their grown children who live in Salt Lake City. Self-published books on Amazon.

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Back To Boardwalk

ALSO BY LISA LOOMIS

Morgan Mallory Series

Boy In A Band

Casanova Cowboy

Racing Through Cornfields

Back To Boardwalk

Other Novels

A Horse Named Joe

Gem Rats

Seeking Normal

Just Bairre

A Short Memoir

Stolen Dreams

Children’s Books

Finn & Geo’s Winter Adventure

Short Stories

Pelican Grand

Copyright © 2018 Lisa Loomis

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Back To Boardwalk

I went back to the bay area the summer I finished the first draft of my story. I hadn’t been in ages. Living in Park City, Utah, and having snow surround us much of the year a trip to the beach, any beach, was always appealing. When I told Ryan, my husband, and Samantha and Tommy, my kids, about Bobby’s offer they cheered. Bobby was a friend from my youth, and he’d offered up his family’s place in Capitola, California for a week. The small weathered bungalow sat on a cliff overlooking the ocean. I knew it well. The last time I had been there was with Mathew, my first true love, the subject of my story. My mind meandered back in time as Ryan pulled out of the Hertz rental car lot. I envisioned Mathew’s tan face, blond hair, sexy smile, and mischievous blue eyes. I remembered our last visit in Capitola had been a good time for the most part. It was the year Mathew had asked me to move back to San Jose, from San Diego, to give us a try. I’d known his patience with my decision making process was wearing thin. What I’d thought I’d wanted for so long was finally on the plate and yet I’d been afraid. In a way I’d known too much by that time. I was twenty-four then and I had gone round and round with Mathew for eleven years.

Staring through the sun-glared windshield, I again felt the guilt of Mathew invading my thoughts so often of late. A turn of events had sent my old world crashing into my current world. Bobby had heard through the grape vine that I was writing about Mathew and me and was curious I think. He knew there was enough craziness for a story as he had some history there too. Ryan understood it would be a week filled with me reflecting back,