Summer [Baxter 12] by Karen Kingsbury

Author:Karen Kingsbury [Kingsbury, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, Romance, Family, Man-Woman Relationships, Faith, Families, Christian, Religious, Christian Fiction, Celebrities, Summer
ISBN: 9780842387484
Google: p9_R74FzpYIC
Amazon: B003AFN6HQ
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2007-08-09T05:00:00+00:00

Letting a reality show

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invade the set was not working out the way he and Katy had planned.

The press weren’t chasing Dayne and Katy through town, because they didn’t have to. That part was going according to their intentions. And they had known the reality show would place interest in their marriage at an all-time high. He tried not to notice, but there was no escaping the recent headlines about Katy and him being the perfect couple with the perfect marriage. He thought about the photos with Randi probably being sent across some e-mail even at that moment.

The problem with being America’s favorite couple hadn’t been obvious when they agreed to the reality show. But now Dayne could see exactly how the paparazzi were thinking. Because the magazines would build them up for only one reason.

To watch them fall.

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JENNY FLANIGAN TOOK her seat next to Jim and glanced at her program. The weeks of rehearsal had flown by, and now it was opening night for Godspell.

“It was a good idea, this play,” Jim leaned into her. “Bailey and Connor seem a lot closer to God.”

“Maybe He’s preparing them.” She looked at her husband. “Katy said this is it.

The theater’s definitely being sold.”

Jim had reason to celebrate the closing of CKT. Without the theater group, there was nothing holding the Flanigan family here, no reason he couldn’t walk away from the problems on his high school team and take a position with one of the interested NFL teams this summer. But his expression held nothing but sorrow. “I don’t know what these kids’ll do without it.”

“I’ve thought about starting my own group, finding a theater at the university, something.” Jenny felt the familiar frustration. “But Bethany Allen, the coordinator, says they’ve already tried everything.”

The conversation dropped off, and Jenny watched people filling 188

the seats. Most of the regulars were here, the families who’d been with CKT

since its beginning and supportive community members like the Baxters. Jenny turned in her seat and watched John and his friend Elaine file in. Behind them were four of John’s kids and their spouses and children.

Ashley was walking with Kari-both of them very clearly pregnant. Ashley scanned the audience and spotted Jenny. The two exchanged a smile.

Jenny faced the stage again. Bailey was nervous about tonight. She had a couple of solos and a scene where her character was caught in adultery. Cody was coming in his own car straight from work. His job at the batting cages didn’t give him enough hours, so Jim had gotten him a position at the school working in the weight room. That way he’d leave town with a little money when it came time to head out for boot camp.

The commotion and excitement around the theater grew, and Jenny savored it. She looked up to the box, the seat where Katy usually sat on opening night. It was sad that she and Dayne weren’t here. Katy would’ve been impressed with the job Rhonda and Chad had pulled off. Jenny had attended three of the dress rehearsals last week, and each one was better than the last.

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