The Accidental Florist by Churchill Jill

Author:Churchill, Jill [Churchill, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-07-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Jane was once again sitting outside, in spite of the fact that every day became a little hotter as spring was getting ready to turn into full-blown summer weather. She was thinking about the talk with Todd earlier in the day. She hadn’t especially wondered why Thelma hadn’t taken Todd on her usual summer vacation for the last two years. If she had, she would have assumed Thelma simply thought she was getting too old to travel. Or that Todd was getting too old to go on trips with a grandmother.

No. That wouldn’t play. Thelma wouldn’t have thought about anyone but herself. So chalk it up to age.

All in all, it had been a good conversation and cleared up a lot of things. It allowed her to tattle to Todd about what his grandmother had said and tried to do to her in the last week without feeling guilty and whiny.

There was something else at the back of her mind that she’d been trying to grasp all day that finally emerged. It involved the next book she was writing. And the case of Miss Welbourne’s death. But in reverse, so to speak.

A woman who had been in an accident and had already set up a trust for her children with a secondary trustee who was her cousin. How did she have enough money to do this, though? She had to be a widow and she’d inherited a lot of money from her deceased husband. She also had to keep her own substantial inheritance from her own parents.

The whole setup had to be convincing. How old were the children when her accident happened? How had it occurred? It was necessary for her to be in a near coma for a long enough time to justify that the cousin could take over managing the trust. And worse, how could she convince the reader that a woman could come out of a coma and remember her whole past?

Jane would have to start in her heroine’s mind. Alert and intelligent as ever, but unable to speak or indicate (except from her eyes following someone in the room?) that her mind was still working.

Furthermore, her characters in her first two books, had elaborate and long names. This time she needed a down-home plain name. It couldn’t be anything that started with a J, however. People who didn’t know Jane well often called her Janet, or Jean, or Joyce. She didn’t want readers to mix up her real name with the character’s name.

Martha? No, that was her sister Marty’s real name and she couldn’t love and sympathize with a Martha.

Ruth? Too biblical. Sarah? Also biblical, but a nice name. How about spelling it Sara? That would work. She’d known two Sarahs along the way through the many schools she’d gone to during her childhood who were called Sally by their friends. Sally was a more “affectionate“ name. At least as far as Jane was concerned.

She hadn’t brought her legal pad out to jot down notes,

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