Becca has a problem that goes much deeper than the heat of a West Texas night. A decision must be made, but will it be the right one?
"He was tall, the kind of tall that makes a woman chew her lip and a man suck in his gut. A football player in his high school days, he was still muscular and lean, his blue eyes clear as the day he was born. He should have been a model, an actor, anything but what he was. It was a waste not to share beauty like his, to hide it in a world where only she was granted full access to every curve, every smile. A waste that filled her with a power nothing else ever could."
Just as life during the pandemic was color-coded with different hues representing different levels of danger, life in its aftermath has become shaded in similar ways. As a self-styled “Seeker of Beauty with Beauty,” (borrowing from a quote by W.E.B.