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    Pelican Grand
    Pelican Grand
    Pelican Grand
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    Pelican Grand

    By Lisa Loomis

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    A gripping story about a mother’s worst nightmare.

    On the first leg of their family vacation, Tessa Lockhart is alarmed to wake and find her grown children still not back to the room. Picturing the group of young adults as they left the Pelican Grand hotel she realizes she knows very little about their new acquaintances. As time ticks by, Tessa tries to calm herself with the knowledge that clubs stay open later in Fort Lauderdale than at home. When her texts and phone calls go unanswered panic starts to set in. Where are her children and why is neither of them answering their phone?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLisa Loomis
    Release dateSep 18, 2018
    ISBN9780463422861
    Pelican Grand
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    Lisa Loomis

    Lisa Loomis was born in Oakland California and raised in San Jose until she was a sophomore in high school. Her father then took a job in the San Diego area where he moved the family to Escondido, California (or hickville as she called it). She finished high school at San Pasqual High then went to junior college at Palomar JC, ultimately graduating from San Diego State University with a BS in Finance. Lisa started a career in mortgage banking in San Diego, California, briefly shifted to a corporate job as a territory sales representative, and then back to mortgage banking in 1996 when the family moved from the San Diego area to Park City, Utah. The move to Park City was prompted by a desire for a lifestyle change. Both she and her husband Dennis wanted to raise their two children in a smaller town environment that was still close to a large city. In Park City Lisa not only ran a mortgage branch but simultaneously helped Dennis run a successful construction company, Loomis Construction. Working full time, running a construction company in off hours, and raising two children was never easy but Lisa seemed to handle it all pretty well until the financial meltdown of 2008. That is when the wheels came off...completely. Finding both her career in mortgage banking and the family business almost vanish overnight Lisa went back to a passion she’s always had, writing. It took Lisa almost four years to write “Boy In A Band”, stopping and starting, telling herself she couldn’t write a book. Once it was written Lisa foolishly thought the hard part was finished. In the last ten years Lisa has continued to help her husband with their construction business as well as spends time writing. Lisa’s currently lives and writes in Park City, Utah. She has been married for twenty-nine years and enjoys spending time with their grown children who live in Salt Lake City. Self-published books on Amazon.

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      Pelican Grand - Lisa Loomis

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      LISA

      LOOMIS

      Pelican Grand

      ALSO BY LISA LOOMIS

      Morgan Mallory Series

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      Pelican Grand

      Copyright © 2018 Lisa Loomis

      The right of Lisa Loomis to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      www.lisaloomisbooks.com

      Second Edition

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Pelican Grand

      December 28, Sunday, 1:17 a.m.

      I woke in the darkness of the resort room and rolled towards the nightstand to take a swig from my water bottle. The bedside clock said one-seventeen and I pushed the button on my iPhone to confirm it. Doug lay next to me sleeping soundly. The air conditioner clicked on softly and I could sense that the kids weren’t back yet or at least I hadn’t heard them come in. I reached across in the dark to the other queen sized bed and felt the smoothness of the taunt duvet. Pulling back my covers I stepped one leg out onto the floor and leaned farther across thinking maybe Payton had chosen to sleep on the pullout in the living room. They didn’t like sleeping together much at twenty-one and twenty-two.

      With a deep shuddering exhale I laid back on the pillow with my eyes still open staring into the blackness. I was thinking that the bars should be closing soon, and then wondered if they closed at a certain time in Florida like they did in Utah. I didn’t worry about Payton and Halle as much when they were at school, away from us. I didn’t know what they were doing or what time they got in. Reaching again for my iPhone I hit the button to see if maybe they had texted me, but the screen only displayed the time and date, 1:17, Sunday, December 28. Don’t panic, it’s only a little after one.

      The kids always brushed off my worry, but they’d never been a parent, didn’t fully understand how the world could change just like that. I tried to recall the last name of the family whose kids they’d met on the beach…was it Audette or Aurray? I couldn’t remember. I hadn’t actually met them, the father, in a white fedora with a black band, had only waved to us from across the beach. Payton and Halle had met their three children while they were romping in the surf. I tried to remember their names too….was it Austin, Emma, and, and…I couldn’t even come up with a name for the oldest boy, although I thought it started with an N. I pictured the five of them laughing and splashing in the white

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