Aurorina

A good one except disappointed me  a little bit at the end.  A well-told story. Good writing.

All these characters, Logan Thighbault, Elizabeth, Ben, Nana, Kieth, are as live as it could be with very unique personalities. Through the descriptions you could just see them stand right before you, quiet but self-confident, good-looking and smiling , smart with a  pair of glasses yet looks like cute, witty in her eyes, and a bulky guy.

Logan, an ex-marine, was sent to Iraq three times during the war. He’d survived 11 bombs, a record no one would like to break or challenge. His best friend, Victor, said that he was safe because he kept the lucky charm with him. It was a photograph he’d picked before he was drifted to the frontier. There was a pretty woman in her early twenties in the picture. He kept the picture in his pocket since the first day that he had put it in. Even after he came back home. Victor said he needed to find her. It was his destiny, although he didn’t really believed it. Seeing victor died right before him made him scare, maybe, and he couldn’t sleep well and kept seeing victor’s ghost. He didn’t know what his destiny was, but maybe, he felt, he could go find that girl and see what it was all about.

Logan started his journey. Walking all the way across Colorado to North Carolina. With his dog Zeus, the shepherd.  He arrived at Hampton, found a job at a kennel, and the woman in the picture. Most importantly, he found peace, and security, and company, and destiny, if it’s what they called it.

Elizabeth lived with Nana, her grandma, and her son, Ben. She had been divorced since Ben was 5 weeks old. Just married to a wrong guy and realized it early. She had some dates, not much, but all ended up nowhere. She thought she was not good at relationships.   The stranger, now hired by Nana, looked strange, she had to admit. But bit by bit, she also found him smart, kind, attractive. Nana and Ben liked him, a lot. She?liked him too. loved him.

Kieth, Beth’s ex-husband, the deputy of the county, member of a powerful family in this county, didn’t want Beth to go see other men. For his son’s sake, he’d say. He would have a little talk with anyone who went out with Beth. It worked almost every time, except the recent one. But he would not give up.