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    Close Encounter with a Crumpet
    Close Encounter with a Crumpet
    Close Encounter with a Crumpet
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    Close Encounter with a Crumpet

    By Fleeta Cunningham

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    Her septuagenarian traveling companions quenched every flicker of pleasure Gillian Banks had anticipated during her trip to England. Then Simon the bus driver, not quite a stranger but definitely an unknown element, challenged Gill to let her own heart lead the way. And she found that a close encounter with a "crumpet" can change a life forever.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Wild Rose Press
    Release dateJun 18, 2014
    ISBN9781628302349
    Close Encounter with a Crumpet
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    Fleeta Cunningham

    A fifth generation Texan, Fleeta Cunningham has lived her entire life in Texas, both small towns and big cities. Drawing on all of them, she writes about the unique character--and characters--of the southern states. After a career as a law librarian for a major Texas law firm, writing a monthly column for a professional newsletter and other legal publications, she returned to her home in Central Texas to write full time. Fleeta has been writing in one form or another since the age of eight. When she isn't writing, she teaches creative writing classes, makes quilts, and designs miniature gowns for her huge collection of fashion dolls.

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      Close Encounter with a Crumpet - Fleeta Cunningham

      Inc.

      Close Encounter

      with a

      Crumpet

      by

      Fleeta Cunningham

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales, is entirely coincidental.

      Close Encounter with a Crumpet

      COPYRIGHT © 2014 by Fleeta Cunningham

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission of the author or The Wild Rose Press, Inc. except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.

      Contact Information: info@thewildrosepress.com

      Cover Art by Kim Mendoza

      The Wild Rose Press, Inc.

      PO Box 708

      Adams Basin, NY 14410-0708

      Visit us at www.thewildrosepress.com

      Publishing History

      First Sweetheart Rose Edition, 2014

      Digital ISBN 978-1-62830-234-9

      Published in the United States of America

      Praise for Fleeta Cunningham…

      And her books in the vintage Santa Rita Series:

      Well-crafted story… exciting plot… interesting characters… I am now determined to read the rest of the series.

      ~The Romance Studio (5 Stars)

      One of the most fantastic books I’ve read this year… An author of increasing distinction who will never disappoint her readers.

      ~Two Lips Reviews (5 Lips, Recommended)

      A warm, thought-provoking book… The best thing is she balances the build-up with a really good ending.

      ~WRDF (rated Fantastic)

      Delightful to read. Fleeta Cunningham slips in mores, styles, and pastimes of the 1950s era… a sparkling, enjoyable vicarious experience.

      ~Camellia, Long and Short Reviews (4.5 Stars)

      ~*~

      Books by Fleeta Cunningham

      available at The Wild Rose Press, Inc.

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      Black Rain Rising

      Don’t Call Me Darlin’

      Half Past Mourning

      Cry Against the Wind

      Bal Masque

      Close Encounter with a Crumpet

      Help Wanted: WIFE

      Dedication

      To the ladies of the Texas Altar Guild—

      Thanks for the trip of a lifetime.

      The company was as impeccable

      as the trip was glorious.

      Acknowledgements

      Thanks to Parish Vacations,

      the gracious people of the Village of Pulborough,

      and especially John and Mary Bowker,

      Father Paul,

      and our own dear Gill

      for making their corner of England our second home.

      I promised you a story.

      Gillian Banks stared at her tea cup and refused to let burning tears fall. Disappointment was one thing; giving way to it in public—no, her Boston pride wouldn’t let her do that. The trip to England had been a dismal letdown from the moment she introduced herself to the tour group, but she’d pinned all her hopes on today being different. No chilly cathedrals today. No echoing churches hailing back to the fourteenth century, with gloomy memorials underfoot to remind the visitor life is a fleeting, temporary thing. Today was to be a celebration, a joyous parade with flags and bands and brilliant uniforms. A lifelong Anglophile, for years Gill had dreamed of standing in Trafalgar Square. Today she’d expected to see the magnificent square as a backdrop when the Queen of England received a salute from her troops in honor of the royal birthday.

      Even the sudden icy downpour that left her new hat sodden hadn’t quelled her expectations. It took two meandering, peevish, chattering septuagenarians to do that. Two traveling companions who had not had a pleasant word to say to her in the past twelve days succeeded in scuttling her anticipation with a fifteen-minute favor. Now Gill shivered in her soggy light blue sweater, wiped damp trickles—she was certain they were raindrops, not tears—from her cheeks, and stirred the cooling cup of tea.

      Pardon, but this is the only free spot left in the place. Mind if I share the table for a bit?

      Gill looked up at

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