
Not! Protect yourself! How? Her morning save thyself rituals failed.

She wondered why experts raised false hope by guaranteeing results claiming research-based success stories. Meditative breathing, prayerful enjoinders, and burying her head under her pillow failed. Her thoughts rambled, twisted, and turned. In a further effort to fight the start of another day that she had no reason to believe would be better than yesterday, she shielded her eyes with her arm. Assurance that her world wouldn’t disintegrate. Assurance that she was increasingly fearful without. Her body luxuriated in and sought the protective assurance that her blankie offered.

Refusing to open her eyes, she wiggled and scooted her body in the cocoon-like wrapping of her down-filled comforter. She woke to the silent sounds of nothingness but didn’t rise, searching instead for solace in the comfort of her bed. “Every decision you’ve made has brought you to where you are today… exactly where you are meant to be.” Rachel and Blue continue to cross paths until they reach a point of no return where they accept they can no longer ignore the sizzle of their interactions and their constricted heart strings that cause them to question the true nature of their relationship.Ĭan she trust him? Can he trust her? Can they together find the missing pieces? He just had to find a few missing pieces.” Arriving in Chandler County from Miami, Florida, Aquino has decided to put Chandler County on the map. Jairo Aquino, aka Blue, a handsomely, mysterious newcomer is trusted by no one and appears to have an investment scheme of his own.


AJ is the mayor’s wife and Rachel discovers that Fitzgerald Manning, the mayor’s father, has close ties to an unidentified conglomerate of farm investors who may be coercing local farmers to sell their land. Rachel Blakely’s (editor of the Chandler County Chronicles), partnership with ex-NYC socialite, AJ Manning crumbles in the midst of their planning for the town’s Derby-related activities. The partnership she’s petrified to refuse and afraid to acceptĪs Chandlerville prepares for a series of local celebrations in honor of the annual Kentucky Derby in nearby Louisville, Kentucky, chaos ensues threatening to cancel the town’s festivities.
