Wink at the Moon
Synopsis
Josie Morgan of Belle Haven, Ohio, is born the moment Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon. He is her hero as she grows up through a string of sorrows. She even senses him steering her into nursing at her small town’s hospital, where she gains purpose and reunites with an old love. Twenty years later, Josie enters a room to greet a new patient and finds her hero. He could go anywhere. What’s he doing here? She puts aside worry, does her job, and gets him through surgery, then causes a complication that turns fatal for the hero. As the world mourns, the hospital faces closure, which would kill Belle Haven. Josie knows that’s not what her hero would do, so she must take action to save the hospital, his legacy, and her own sad heart. WINK AT THE MOON, 76,000 of women’s fiction, is available to agents and editors.
Excerpt
Hand in hand, Dad and Josie walked to the front door, and Dr. Bennett gave Josie an envelope, which she held before her on the silent drive home. When they pulled into the driveway at Magic Street, Dad chuckled.
“Damn it all,” he said. “Those Bennetts, with those eyes.”
“Tell me about it,” Josie said.
Mom opened Dr. Bennett’s envelope and pulled out a check payable to Josephine Morgan for five thousand dollars.
That night, Josie sat out on the back porch wrapped in a blanket, training the Binolux to stare at Jupiter and beyond. She swore to all the stars, over and over, I will go to college, will study astronomy, will meet the first man again, will make Mom and Dad proud again … Then Mom appeared, folded up next to her, and hugged her.
“We are proud of you, honey,” she said. “We love you. You will be OK. We all will be OK. But tomorrow, you have another hard job.”
Calling Rob, hearing his voice, holy smoke, Josie, where have you been? she squeezed her eyes as her heart tightened. The next day, after school, he picked her up when he got off work at Kroger. They didn’t speak until they were in a back booth at Frisch’s and the waitress had taken their orders. Rob’s face grew serious.
“What’s going on, Josie?”
“I’m pregnant. Bucky is the father.”