New Beginnings

New Beginnings
Jill Barnett

When loved ones leave you, it’s time to change your life. A poignant and uplifting new novel about love and loss, for fans of Nora Roberts.Recently widowed March Cantrell must deal with her beloved husband's death while trying to escape the constant interference from her well meaning grown-up children.All her children that is, apart from Molly. March discovers that the new man she's dating, Spider Olsen, is 23 years older than her daughter - and believes the relationship is doomed to failure. However, any attempt to talk to Molly only drives them further apart. Meanwhile, March's sons are fighting for control of the family business.In order to heal the growing rifts between them all, the family decides to spend Christmas at their mountain home in Lake Tahoe. Whilst skiing one day, March finds herself stranded with a young man called Rio and is surprised to discover that she is attracted to him.A few weeks after the holidays, March returns to the mountains. One lonely night, whilst dining alone, March is joined by Rio. What starts as a one-night stand becomes something much more.Her children think March has lost her mind. However, somewhere in this tangled chaos, in the betrayal and competition and the innocence of new love, is the answer for all the Cantrells.

JILL BARNETT

New Beginnings

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DEDICATION

March is not us, nor are her experiences ours. This story is fiction. But we know her world, because we have traveled down the same kind of unfamiliar, muddied roads, because we had to overcome the past to find a future, because of this and so much more, New Beginnings is for Jane, Meryl, Cathy, JJ, Deb, and me.

What is this really like? Never mind the conventions and the decisions we’ve all made together. What is it really like?

Mike Nichols, Inside the Actor’s Studio

Table of Contents

Title Page (#ua4c8049a-dcdb-5c99-b21d-844760e4542f)

Copyright (#u7599c806-c193-5a13-9bad-ea6e2a6c1d39)

Part One (#u47e8291e-cc81-5428-b559-ffe4623937f9)

Chapter One (#u1d9b5662-dba8-548f-b7b6-6dec1fa69d72)

Chapter Two (#u474fc377-3cf4-50c4-9e9f-0ab5e785b180)

Chapter Three (#ub91d303e-9c1f-551f-80c4-f2e95f8793d7)

Chapter Four (#u51eb277f-c240-5791-b3cc-f78650effe8b)

Chapter Five (#ucfbdb0b2-a304-595b-85e1-3f465be54d05)

Chapter Six (#u9aaacf9b-c852-5381-8b0e-a1b26e1af37f)

Chapter Seven (#u1004aea9-4402-5a5d-bb2f-116b3c53f86f)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Two (#litres_trial_promo)

March (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Three (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-one (#litres_trial_promo)