Excerpt of Devil in the Deep Blue Sea

Sail off with Jeanie in this coming of age women's fiction with a paranormal twist. She is a shy child of the 70's, aching for attention. Surviving a near-drowning incident while babysitting with a friend, Jeanie tells no one. She buries the incident deep within her. Fifteen years later, Jeanie is married with a little girl of her own. She makes sure to dote on her own daughter, giving her all the love and recognition that her inner child still craves. Flying on a lavish vacation with her elderly mother, there is mechanical trouble. Jeanie must finally come face to face with the Devil in the Deep Blue Sea.

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The girls played with the twin toddler boys in the musty, stone-walled basement. Jeanie put on a show using expensively detailed Goldilocks puppets in an elaborate theater that had red velvet curtains. She got caught up in the skit, not just entertaining the children, but actually having fun. Later, she helped Delaine feed them and get them changed into their jammies. After they drifted off to sleep, the baby-sitters went outside."All right, Delaine, spill.""Spill what?""What was that look you gave me in the kitchen all about?""Oh, just that I know that Mr. and Miz Charles are getting a divorce. He has a girlfriend with pretty teeth and Farrah Fawcett-Majors hair. Miz Charles wants to sue his sorry buttocks for every penny he has and will ever have.""How do you know?""I heard my mom talking to the mailman."Jeanie lay on her back in the freshly mowed fescue surrounding the historic house. She happily inhaled the scent of cut grass. Her attention fixated across the river at the sunset. Slowly moving her eyes up through the clouds, she saw the color of a ripe peach, evolving into hot pink, then light aquamarine, and finally dark crayon blue.Delaine immediately headed to the pool."Come on, Jeanie! The water is so warm! Jump in!"The teenager rolled over and put her hands under her chin. She laughed at Delaine goofing around in the water, watching her handstands and bubble blowing. "I don't know how to swim. You have fun and I'll watch you." Jeanie opened her Tiger Beat magazine and flipped past the Leif Garrett dream date contest, Noxzema ad, and Bay City Rollers news. She creased the magazine open at the Andy Gibb photo spread and dramatically sighed. His peach vest and pants looked softer than the sunset."Come on, Jeanie! You're missing out on all the fun!"Jeanie removed her shoes and socks. She gingerly stuck her toes in and delightedly kicked her legs in the heavily chlorinated water. She knew they really shouldn't be swimming with out any adults present. Not that Jeanie was going to swim, but still, she felt like they were taking a stupid chance.Delaine swam over. "Jump in!""No, I'll watch you. I can't swim."Delaine grabbed her hand. "Yeah, right, Jeanie." She yanked her into the water.Disoriented, Jeanie found herself standing on the bottom of the pool. Desperately climbing, she somehow managed to propel herself up to the surface and grabbed onto Delaine's head. Delaine immediately pushed her off. Down, down, down Jeanie sank. Her thoughts muddled. She knew better than to go near water with no lifeguard. Maybe Mr. Charles would come home early. Maybe Andy Gibb would jump in and save her. He was a champion swimmer in Australia. She had read that about him last month. Flailing to the surface the second time, she grabbed wildly for Delaine. When she found her, Jeanie shoved Delaine underwater again, as she tried to climb onto her back. Delaine threw her off. Down, down, down Jeanie sank.
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