Cabin Fever (Lost and Found Book 1)
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“Oh.” All I could say. This must be my agent’s way of getting rid of clients, not firing them but telling them to leave.
“Only for a few months. Look at what it did for Mckale Tyler who was caught in a brothel in Nevada. He spent a few months at a rehab facility and the next movie he did won him an Oscar.”
Despite having a few starring roles under his belt, I remember when the press labeled him the comeback king. Perhaps there was something to this plan.
“What would I have to do? Go to some fancy rehab slash resort for a month or two. I could do that.”
It might be nice to relax. The last time I had a day off was five years ago, in the middle of September. I remember because it felt wrong. I had no idea what to do. I tried watching tv, but that wasn’t my thing. I started to read a book but loved it so much I began creating a plan to turn it into a movie. Which was technically work, so I guess that wasn’t a real day off.
“I have the perfect plan.”
Of course, she had something unusual, clever, and entirely brilliant. She was the best agent in the business. I had nothing to worry about now.
Babette reached in her pocket and produced something black. It looked shiny and hard, but within moments shes folded it open to the size of a tablet. Damn, she had the coolest stuff.
After tapping the screen a few times, she handed it over to me.
It was a picture of the house I bought for my mom and I back in Fire Lake when I first made money on Vidtube. The two bedroom and two bathroom home was cute. According to the images on the realtor’s site, the current owners kept it up.
It was probably the only thing in my home town that gave me happy memories.
“I don’t own this anymore. I sold it ten years ago when I moved out west.”
I was trying to understand Babette’s logic but was failing. Turning my head, I looked up to Cara as she cradled the empty bottle of water in her hand. She shrugged. Cara wasn’t getting it, either.
“It’s yours now. Well, it’s mine. I bought it. The owner tried to tell me that someone else was interested, but everything has a price.”
I stared at the image of my old home as the realization hit me. She was telling me that I had to move back to my home town and live in my old house, so my career didn’t fizzle out into anything. The last place I wanted to be was the place I ran from when I was a teenager. There was nothing for me there and the one person I thought who loved me, had used me.
“It’s only for a few months. I know that Kirk Malone is in talks for the new Jet Girl movie. And, if all goes according to plan I can almost taste the ink on the contract of your first franchise movie deal.”
I scrunched up my face and handed her back the tablet.
I woke up today with my biggest worry what would Albert Harston pull on me today. Never in my nightmares had I believed I'd be contemplating moving to the other side of the country to my hometown up a mountain in Maine all to save my career.
“I’ll do it. But you have to make sure that contract is worth it when all this is over.”
Babette held out her hand, and we shook. She was grinning while I felt as if the world was swallowing me whole. At that moment, I wished it would.
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BEHIND THE SCENES
THIS IS THE PART OF the book where I tell you little factoids about different parts of the story and/or why I wrote the book. As I write, I throw in things that have happened to me, to people I know, or stuff I witnessed in life. Some of it is crazy and some is dorky, but that’s me – crazy and dorky.
Let’s get started!
Where do I begin? I started with the idea for this book way back in the summer of 2018 as I was wrapping up the Cake Love series. The idea of a story about a woman trapped in the wilderness with a mountain man had rattled in my head for years. I kept pushing it off and off, but then my personal life went down hill the summer of 2018. Many family members became ill at once, some terminal, and trying to get myself to smile became harder and harder.
Enter Olivia and Carter. That’s when they became very loud. I originally wanted to write about Olivia’s family back in DC for my new series, but the idea of writing about seclusion in the mountains was so appealing. I wanted to live through them. Away from my problems.
This is the book that got me to smile. I decided I wasn’t going to write this book for anyone but me. Every day as I sat down to write I set a goal to get myself to laugh. Each ridiculous thing that came out of Olivia’s mouth or crazy meltdown of Carter’s or outrageous situation they got themselves in was to get me to grin.
It worked. While I can’t say that the family members in my life got better (some improved a little while others haven’t), I can say that I had something to smile about every day. That these characters got me through a tough time in my life. And no matter if readers love or hate Olivia and Carter, they will always have a warm place in my heart.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ELIZABETH LYNX WAS a printer. She was also a graphic designer, photographer, actress, comedic improviser, merchandiser, and now adding author to that extensive list of professions.
She has written an erotic romance called Her Night with Him. Since she spent a lot of time training and moved halfway across the country to pursue comedy (much to her husband’s chagrin) only to change her mind and take up writing, Elizabeth decided to write her first romantic comedy series called Cake Love. Now she’s moved on to other romcoms such as Dirty Secret and the Lost & Found series.
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STORIES by ELIZABETH LYNX
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THANK YOU
THIS IS GOING TO BE short. I want to thank my father. He passed while I was brining this book to life. I miss him.
He is the reason this book is written the way it is. I feel that if my father’s health hadn’t gone down hill the past several month Cabin Fever wouldn’t be as funny. I needed to make myself laugh every day because outside of writing, life was far from fun
ny.
My father was one of those men who had an extraordinary life and met so many famous people, but never talked about it. Life experiences that I am only recently just finding out about.
This book is for my dad because he always valued hard work (like Carter) and humor (like Olivia). I think if he had read this book it would have made him laugh too.
I love you, dad.
I’d also like to thank Peggy. The sheep farmer who not only helped me with information I needed for this book, but helped my family when we needed her most. You are a kind and generous person. We are lucky to have you in our lives.