Take a Chance

by D. Jackson Leigh

  Trip tried to answer the rapid questions with nods and shakes of her head, but she couldn’t keep up. Just as Jamie was moving behind her for what Trip feared was to be a Heimlich maneuver, her throat relaxed a bit and she gasped out a few words. “Image…Annabelle…on porch…in pink—” Her throat finally relaxed enough for a deep cough to clear it. “I had a flash of the three of them—Jackson, Clarice and Annabelle—lined up on the porch in their rocking chairs, the pig dressed in one of Clarice’s pink housedresses, and all of them wearing dark glasses like they’re the Blues Brothers.”

  Jamie stared at her. “You’ve already been by there, haven’t you?” She grabbed Trip’s jaw. “Open your mouth. I want to see if there are brownie crumbs in there.”

  Trip laughed even harder when Jamie joined in and they walked arm-in-arm back to the playground in progress. Life was good. Turned out that settling in Pine Cone hadn’t been a gamble after all, because they’d both come in first in this winner-take-all adventure.

  About the Author

  D. Jackson Leigh grew up barefoot and happy, swimming in farm ponds and riding rude ponies in rural south Georgia. She is a career journalist, but has found her real passion in writing sultry lesbian romances laced with her trademark Southern humor and affection for horses.

  She has published 11 novels and one collection of short stories with Bold Strokes Books, winning a 2010 Alice B. Lavender Award for Noteworthy Accomplishment, and three Golden Crown Literary Society awards in paranormal, romance, and fantasy categories. She also was a finalist for four more GCLS awards, and a finalist in the romance category of the 2014 Lambda Literary Society Awards.

  Friend her at facebook.com/d.jackson.leigh, on twitter @djacksonleigh, or learn more about her at www.djacksonleigh.com.

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