Cabin Fever

By Candice Christian

Valerie and Robyn haven't seen each other in several years. A lot has changed for both of them in that time, and when they see each other at their class reunion there is much to talk about.
Both have a secret they are anxious to tell each other but the setting offers too little privacy and they decide to go to the out of town girl, Valerie’s place. It's a rustic cabin situated on a state park lodge area.
The weather turns nasty right after the woman get to the cabin and it seems the atmosphere in the cabin is charged with the electricity of the storm and things begin to heat up. First one then the other begins to reveal some of the intimate details of things that have happened in the time since they last saw each other.
One is going through a divorce, the other ‘outs’ herself as a lesbian to her friend. Like a fiery catalyst the tension builds as the shock to each is jarring. Each is afraid they will cause a rift in their friendship.
Like a dam bursting, more secrets come out, and along with the amount of wine they are drinking both realize they are facing an explosive situation. Their problem and how to solve it, comes to a head and they let the electrically charged, cabin fever run its course.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tenth Muse
• Release date: May 19, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463978559

Candice Christian

Candice was born in Paris KY on 9 January 1988. Her parents, George Bertrand Christian, an attorney who once aspired to be an actor, and Frances Hollowell insisted that Candice and her sister Simone, be sent to a Catholic school. Candice was deeply religious as a child, at one point thought of becoming a nun.

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Cabin Fever

Candice Christian

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Acknowledgments

Patience Buckner

Chapter One

Valerie Grayson was enjoying herself at the 10th reunion of the Class of '2010. When she had first received the invitation to the celebration a few weeks back, the twenty-eight year old had tossed it aside with a mental note to send back the small Will not be attending card when she got a chance. Now she was glad it had gotten lost among the bills.

It had been a good number of years since Valerie had left Dry Ridge to go to school up in Ohio. In that time, she had only been back to visit her hometown a handful of times. With her mother's funeral four years before, even those rare trips had stopped.

One of the reasons the tiny town she had spent her early life in occupied such a small place in her memory was the fact that few people in Dry Ridge ever made enough of an impression on her to be worth remembering. Or at least that was the way it had seemed to her at the time.

A feature reporter for the Cincinnati Inquirer for the last five years, Valerie had been trying to land a cover story in the weekend news-magazine for the last nine months. Opportunity seemed to land in her lap when her Editor announced that he wanted to do a cover story on high school reunions. Never one to let a chance for advancement go by, Valerie had jumped on it, saying that she thought it was a great idea and then, remembering the invite sitting in the drawer at home, casually mentioning that she was already going to her own reunion in two weeks.

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Her class reunion was still a work assignment and interviewing some of the familiar faces was her first task of the evening. Ten minutes later, Valerie had completed yet another interview that would add to her story. In her mind she could already see the completed product and it was going to be exactly the kind of uplifting story that the Inquirer liked to run in its Sunday Magazine. If she was really lucky, the story might be picked up and run in syndication as many of the cover stories were.

Being from a small town, Valerie found it funny how many city people liked to read about their small town counterparts. Still, if it was going to advance her career, well that was fine with her.

"God, can you believe she had