"Jackie"

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(Short Story) At forty-something, Jackie is finally starting over after ending it with her noncommittal ex. Her bags are packed, her one-way ticket to the West Coast is booked, and she has less than twenty-four hours before she disappears into a completely new life. Tonight, she is just a ghost passing through a room at the quiet Whispering Pines boutique hotel. She should be sleeping. She should be focusing on tomorrow. Instead, she can’t stop thinking about Jamal. He's the good-looking, linebacker-built maintenance man she met by the courtyard hot-tub last night. The chemistry between them was undeniable. Now, sitting alone in the dim lamplight of room 302, the quiet gives her temptation space to speak, and it's loud. All it takes is one call down to the front desk. One clever excuse to ‌bring the maintenance man straight to her door. She knows she’s leaving tomorrow and nothing more will come of it. Can she finally choose herself? With no regrets? *** Jackie is a 8,700-word standalone, high-heat romance packed with 4-pepper spice, tension, and a mature, newly single heroine who knows exactly what she wants. It is an exclusive companion short story from the Nicole Andrews Collection.