Peyton curled up in a corner of the couch, cell phone to her ear, smiling.

"So you like it?" she asked Grace.

"Like it?" The woman's voice practically shrieked in her ear. "I love it. My god, Peyton, I think this is going to be the best thing you've ever done. Maybe I should send all my authors for a month at a cabin in the Maine woods."

Peyton laughed. "First of all, it was a cottage. Secondly, it was at a lake, not in the woods."

"Close enough. Someday, ...