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    The Hogmanay Stranger: Sweetwater Canyon
    The Hogmanay Stranger: Sweetwater Canyon
    The Hogmanay Stranger: Sweetwater Canyon
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    The Hogmanay Stranger: Sweetwater Canyon

    By Maggie Lynch

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    Sweetwater Canyon Book 3.5 –  A Novelette
    (32 pages plus 20 pages of “sneak peek” of Book 3)

    The Sweetwater Canyon musicians celebrate Hogmanay (New Year’s Eve) in Scotland with Rachel’s father, Gavin Cullen.  Since his wife’s death eight years ago, Gavin has never completely been the same. Clearing the cobwebs of the past year in order to begin anew is a tradition with special meaning at the family bed and breakfast inn.

    When a young, homeless stranger is invited inside he is met with caution by some members of the band. Will he be a source of division or will he help to free the Cullen’s from the past?

    This novelette was first published in the Gift of Christmas anthology. The story is a bridge story between Sweetwater Canyon Books 3 and 4. It includes sneak peek of Book 3.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWindtree Press
    Release dateJul 6, 2015
    ISBN9781942368571
    The Hogmanay Stranger: Sweetwater Canyon

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      The Hogmanay Stranger - Maggie Lynch

      Chapter 1

      Rachel paced in the conference room beneath Michele and David’s condo in the Pearl District. Sunshine played peek-a-boo with the clouds over the Willamette River as yesterday’s storm blew eastward. When David first took over booking all of Sweetwater Canyon’s gigs each year, he used his office at home. But soon, they were doing so well that he hired a part-time assistant and took over an office downstairs .

      With only two months until the holidays, she had a special funding request and David Blackstone was the man with the purse strings. Because of his management and marketing capabilities, Sweetwater Canyon was finally making a living with their music. No more breakdowns on the road. No more wondering if they would return home even more broke than when they left. No one was a millionaire, or even a hundred thousandnaire—except David with his consulting business—but no one was starving either. Each woman had sufficient income to survive on her own if needed.

      Rachel’s da had sent her an invitation to come home to Scotland for Hogmanay. She hadn’t been home in eight years and she was dying to go. Letters and Google Hangouts had kept them in touch, but nothing like seeing each other in person. Her da had invited the entire band and their families to his home and B&B in Dunoon, Evie’s Inn, named after Rachel’s mother. Hogmanay was a traditional time to welcome friends and strangers to your home, and to enter into the new year together with a clean break from the past—looking forward, not back.

      Rachel wanted to share Hogmanay with both her families—her da in her family home and with the family she’d come to know in America since she’d joined Sweetwater Canyon five years ago. If she didn’t extend the invitation and work out the financing now, they would all make other plans. The logistics could be difficult, but that wasn’t her prime worry. It was the cost to fly all five women and their families to Scotland during one of the busiest travel times of the year that had her prepared to beg for assistance.

      David sauntered into the conference room and smiled. So, what was so important you had to call me away from Michele and little Tamara? I can’t believe it was only a few months ago she was barely walking on her own. Now I can hardly keep up with all the places she finds to climb and get into trouble.

      He turned and reached into the small refrigerator for a pitcher of water. Can I offer you any? he said, holding a glass next to the raised pitcher.

      Sure. Rachel ran nervous fingers through her hair.

      He looked at her with narrowed eyes. Is there a problem? Where’s Noel?

      Noel’s home with Claire. No problem…exactly. Rachel shifted from one foot to the other. I have more of a question. I need an advance or a loan or something.

      Have a seat. David placed the glass in front of her on the conference table and sat in a chair facing her.

      She flopped into the chair and then sat erect, her fingers drumming on the table. She hated asking for favors but this meant the world to her. Somewhere deep inside she

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