Nine Weeks, One Ring, No Feelings
Synopsis
Solveig Marchetti runs the Ivory Line, an 800-foot funicular that has hauled the town of Perdita Bay up its own headland since 1911 — and it is two inspections away from being scrap. When Sorren Halloway arrives to close it, a lurching cable car and a badly timed newspaper photo turn them into the town's newly engaged sweethearts overnight, and they realize the lie is worth more than the truth: she gets a succession plan for the restoration grant, he gets the trust shares that vest after sixty public days and the votes to stop his father. They sign nine rules on the back of an inspection form, and they break every one of them, while each keeps a document hidden that will detonate the other's life at exactly the wrong moment.
Chapters 6 of 14 chapters free
- 1 Eight Hundred Feet of Bad Idea Free
- 2 The Ring Clause Free
- 3 Rules for Liars Free
- 4 Due Diligence Free
- 5 Salt Week Free
- 6 The Fog Bell Free
- 7 Astoria Locked
- 8 House of Glass Locked
- 9 Deferred Locked
- 10 Two Weeks of Rope Locked
- 11 The Letter She Signed Locked
- 12 Two Signatures Locked
- 13 The Ninth Week Locked
- 14 The Last Car Up Locked