The Most Wonderful Time by Michaels Fern; Finz Stacy; Title Sarah; McCoy Shirlee

Author:Michaels, Fern; Finz, Stacy; Title, Sarah; McCoy, Shirlee [Michaels, Fern; Finz, Stacy; Title, Sarah; McCoy, Shirlee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-09-02T04:00:00+00:00

Moonshine and Mistletoe

Sarah Title

Chapter One

Of all the ways Emma Fallader imagined she would eventually die, hurtling off an icy cliff in West Virginia was definitely not one of them.

And yet, here she was.

“Sorry,” her friend, Liam, said as he regained control of the sliding car.

“Don’t apologize, just drive.” She grimaced from beside him.

“How you doing back there?” Liam glanced in the rearview mirror, where two of his three passengers were slowly turning green.

Bernie rolled down her window an inch. “Sorry. It’s either this or I mess up Emma’s nice car.”

“Thanks for driving, by the way,” Emma said softly.

“Just let him drive,” Bernie said as Liam focused on the slick road in front of them. “Whose idea was it to get married at Christmas anyway?”

“That was Kevin,” Liam said to the road. “Daniel picked the place, Kevin picked the time. It’s their wedding, after all.”

“Very democratic,” Becky said from the seat behind Emma, where she was clutching the seat belt with alarmingly white knuckles.

“And Daniel finally got all of us to West Virginia,” Emma added. “If I didn’t know how much he loves Kevin, I might have thought that he’s getting married just to make us come visit here.”

Daniel was emphatic in his love for his home state, and proselytized its beauty and warmth with the fervor of the newly converted. It was one of the things that Kevin had found most annoying about him, or so Kevin claimed when they were all getting to know each other their first semester in library school. But there was so much to love about Daniel that a little home state obsession was decidedly no big deal.

Sometimes it amazed Emma, how well Daniel fit in with all of them. He was cool. Not nerdy-cool like the librarians, but actual-cool. He was an architect and he wore slim-fit suits and played guitar in a post-punk band. The rest of them were just total librarians. Obsessed with books and equity and access to information. They argued about metadata. They did a lot of bar trivia.

Maybe Emma wasn’t being fair. Liam could go toe-to-toe with Daniel on indie bands nobody else had ever heard of. Becky had an artistic streak, though she rarely showed it, working in a corporate law office. Bernie was a social justice warrior in her own right, using her college library for community good.

So maybe it was just Emma who was the nerd.

She was such a library nerd that she was working her way to becoming Doctor Library Nerd. Once she got her PhD, she could teach the next generation of librarians, encouraging them to embrace and improve the small, rural libraries like the ones she’d grown up in. Her research on access and Internet speeds was being published in the Journal of the Indiana Library Association, and she hoped it would be a good jumping-off point for her dissertation. Except she wasn’t sure if her approach was broad enough....

She had to stop thinking about it. That was what she’d promised her three wedding dates when she picked them all up at the airport in Charleston.

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