A Song in the Daylight

A Song in the Daylight
Paullina Simons

From the author of the top five bestseller ROAD TO PARADISE comes a novel of love, betrayal and redemption against the oddsHow well can you ever really know someone?If anyone asked Larissa's husband, children or friends if she was happy, they would say yes. Sometimes too busy, sometimes irritable - but really, what in her wonderful life could be wrong? She has a happy marriage, a dream house, and everything she ever wanted at her fingertips.Yet a chance encounter with a young man new to town hits her like a lightning bolt. Their connection is electric. Suddenly her lovely home life seems claustrophobic, and the familiar mundane. Irresistible passion drives her to contemplate the unthinkable. But if she dares to make the impossible leap, what will her life be then? Whatever choice she makes, someone will be betrayed…

PAULLINA SIMONS

A Song in theDaylight

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Source ISBN: 9780007241545

Ebook Edition © MARCH 2015 ISBN: 9780007353156

Version: 2015-03-09

Dedication (#ulink_01a5cc0d-6a97-5212-8de8-050bc05518de)

To Sara Belk, a mother, a thespian, a theologian,

a friend, a woman extraordinaire

Epigraph (#ulink_ce3ee822-8dd6-5443-b646-f7b83db0c7f4)

… Do not lose heart … Outward man is perishing, yet inward man is being renewed day by day … We do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:16–1

Contents

Cover (#ued36c65e-c51c-501a-8854-6b9467aaa701)

Title Page (#u90330ad4-f76b-5ebb-8733-e2f083e96586)

Copyright (#ulink_65042e44-3ef8-5eab-b4c2-c743d19a34fb)

Dedication (#ulink_08c89c24-fd97-5d6c-a5c6-755601140e2f)

Epigraph (#ulink_7b2ba1da-2a8f-53e4-ba9e-463806fbc55c)

Prologue: Friday Night (Almost) Like Any Other (#ulink_6f135470-ade3-5745-83cd-ba5c6433c977)

Part I. The Stonemason (#ulink_3ead981a-ec67-597b-bb58-ded236d2971e)

Chapter One (#ulink_b1ec5193-62c9-57bc-b058-5b669bf6ab14)

1. Things Trains Bring (#ulink_b1ec5193-62c9-57bc-b058-5b669bf6ab14)

2. Che (#ulink_68c9f703-2fc6-50fe-8852-e2766faf41f2)

3. Maggie and Ezra (#ulink_bc00be61-1160-51e6-8956-9d2cbe08d0c6)

4. Jared (#ulink_970b6fdf-1c11-580e-b306-884b26d8b167)

5. Jared’s Wife (#ulink_52960cb6-56a5-55cd-b457-853b8d5f9dab)

6. King’s, Ye Olde Market (#ulink_361d6b00-7ca4-5708-ae90-fd8dcffcecf3)

7. Burial Grounds (#ulink_7d8ccc35-be25-5c93-8655-d49b34ede397)

8. 99 Red Balloons (#ulink_0b289872-7eb4-58a1-b0e5-be35419aed6d)

Chapter Two (#ulink_07e1f317-a214-5fde-a92f-3aa7a7b3032e)

1. Things Which Are Seen (#ulink_07e1f317-a214-5fde-a92f-3aa7a7b3032e)

2. Othello (#ulink_07b43034-cddb-5662-ae51-69b78555d471)

3. Aisle 12 (#ulink_b022ff2c-3201-5f44-8052-dbaca2994b5e)

4. “Moisten Your Head with Lubricant” (#ulink_795a8568-3f6f-5259-bd85-ee4bcfca700d)