I'm Published!!!! Well...Kinda..

                                   

                              A Journal Land Novel

There isn't a title for this story.. as of yet that I know of..

Lori has taken over the task of running the Journal and playing Editor.  She just reposted all the entries from the past hostess's Journal and made the open call for who wanted to be on the list of writers and write the next entry.  I had never heard of it.. but I have connections now! lol  Few days ago I spent the better part of a day reading the story and getting caught up.  It was left off at an amazing twist!  I have always been one to play fan fiction and used to be into role playing, so my creative self was yelling for me to write where they had left off.

I tried to summarize the best I could incorporate into the entry the background info needed to get into the tale of Maria's Vacation to Hawaii so new readers would get hooked.  I still highly recommend you go and read the full story but I will give you the condensed version here

if you like spoilers...

Maria is a sexy, young professional, fresh out of Law School.  She worked her butt off most of her life to get to where she was at and before taking on a permeant position at the law firm she choose to take a month long and over due vacation to Hawaii.  Hawaii is her dream place and she has been contemplating and saving for it most of her life.  The story starts off with her getting off the plane and checking into her room, leaving all her cares behind her state side, or at least that is what she thought.  It seems the nasty love triangle she had going on has followed her to Paradise.  She may be young but no way is she innocent.  To distract her from the hardships of her life she was in a heated office affair with a married man named Steve and once that started to cool some she fell into another one on accident with a women named Kelly, who is not what she seems to be at all.  Before her trip she had ended it with both of them but Kelly was very scorned, and exposed Steve's indiscretion to his wife and left some not so nice threats to Maria, even to the point of almost running her down with a car and damaging her property.  Maria really needed this vacation before she threw herself into her work.

As Maria lounged by the pool she is shaken and told there is a problem with her room and she is needed ASAP.  She comes on the scene to find Kelly being arrested for getting into her room and causing all sorts of havoc to her belongings.  In steps tall and hunky Detective Tom.  He is a home grown boy with a soft heart for Maria right away.  Maria gets the Penthouse Suite for the Hotel's mistake of leaving her room open for Kelly to get into (darn maids but whaaahoo) and a voucher for $1,000 for the shops in the Hotel and basically she gets a free ride for the rest of her stay.

Thankful that Kelly is behind bars and she has this new lovely room Maria heads to the bar for drinks and dinner and looking for fun.  The shy bar tender Jimmy tries to flirt but she isn't having it at first, she knows how to play with men.  In walks Tom and Maria is pleasantly surprised to see him.  He flirts but is not too pushy and they have dinner, but not before Maria throws in the Mix that she has a standing date (to his delight and shock) with bartender Jimmy the next day.  So here we go having two men show her around the island, fighting for her attention, every women's dream.  Tom learns of the true relationship between Maria and Kelly and gets turned off by it and has been assigned to take Kelly to the main land and he gets an ear full of all the details.  While he is gone Maria and Jimmy heat up and have some adventures together, Jimmy seems to of rescued her from a nasty situation of one night out drinking alone. Tom kinda fades away from the story when he gets back to the Island.

And here is where the twists come into play.. there is a dead body who happens to be someone Jimmy knows and used one of his huts for a night of fun with Maria.  They both are the one's to discover the man dead and call the police and ofcourse Tom comes back on the scene.  All clues lead to Jimmy but he has Maria as an alibi.. or does he.  And more twist is Jimmy and Steve are half brothers but never have met and the man murdered is their father who was going to leave his fortune to Jimmy. Kelly somehow plays into all this by giving info she has to the police and they pass it on to Tom.  Jimmy is in custody and this is where the story leaves off and I come in.. Read my entry and get into this story!!