New Tricks: Plan A: New Tricks, #1

By Ella Medler

Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? Jonathan and Emma re-design their lives when their children leave home.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paper Gold Publishing OLD
• Release date: Jul 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9781393231554

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First Edition, 2016

License Notes

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Copyright © 2016 Ella Medler

All rights reserved. Published by Paper Gold Publishing

No part of this book may be reproduced in any form of by any electronic or mechanical means, including information and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. This is a work of fiction, names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. 

Editing: Ella Medler

Cover and Formatting: The Graphics Shed

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New Tricks: Plan A

Emma worries her marriage will become humdrum and insipid now that the children have flown the nest. Fretting over it won't make it better, though. Action will.

Jonathan wants to surprise his wife with a romantic getaway now that he's got her all to himself. But judging by her plans for rejuvenating their marriage, it looks like she's considered leaving him—that's her Plan D.

Desperate times call for desperate measures, so Jonathan goes along with Emma's suggestions in order to win back her love. Plan A sounds exciting, and Plans B and C are not bad either. Plan D might never happen... if he survives Plan A first.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Aldous Huxley

Chapter 1

Jonathan

I looked over at Emma the way I did every night, half to gauge my chances