Excerpt: In Essentials

'Tis Christmas Eve and I thought I would, as an early Christmas present, give you the next scene from In Essentials . This title is subject to change. The story is morphing into a whole new trajectory, and I am not sad about that one little bit.

And so, here is the next scene. As always, this is a rough draft (read that as no editor has looked at it yet) and my beta reader (bless her heart) has taken a run through it. I hope you enjoy.

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If he weren’t so focused on his decision to marry Elizabeth ...