Open Roads

Open Roads - Paperback

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Open Roads

Open Roads - Paperback

by Joyce Hicks
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Book Overview

Widow Betty's hit the jackpot for a senior woman. Reacquainted with a high-school crush, she's traveling Indiana in his vintage Airstream. Considerate, with an infectious laugh and impressive white beard, Louie seemed like a dream. Especially for a woman of a certain age. But it has been six decades since high school. Betty admits she doesn't know him well and wonders if she can get past the seeming mysteries about him. Is the surprise she found under the bed, a collection of decorative wooden boxes, harmless or sinister? And what has led him to being a Santa for hire? Perhaps his attentiveness to Betty is primarily directed at wanting her to play Mrs. Claus! Though friend Eleanor arrives at the camper to stage a rescue, as well as a spa trip, Betty resolves to stick with Louie, at least for a time. But devotion to his plans may mean less focus on daughter Sharon and her new gig as TV chef. Should a mother sacrifice family to travel about? But little time is left ahead for her own ambitions. Where should her allegiance lie?

ISBN9798218663711
Author Joyce Hicks
PublisherEncore Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages216
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Joyce Hicks

Joyce Hicks' fiction has appeared in Passager, Uncharted Territory, Touch: The Journal of Healing, and others. "An Outing for Betty," the first chapter of Escape from Assisted living, appeared in Literary Mama and was named within the editor's ten-best for 2007. This citation along with receiving an honorable mention for Chicago NPR's contest for Stories on Stage validated her interest in the minutiae of family life, particularly at the gateways to new stages. She coached students in writing at a midwestern university for many years and lives with her pets and husband in northwest Indiana.

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