![]() ![]() But one of Cable’s writer friends fares far worse in the storm. ![]() And indeed, the electricity does get taken out by the storm. The storm is a doozey and there is plenty of damage but it is to the north of where Cable lives, closer to the big hotels. Nick, a young student working part time in the bookstore hangs with Bruce through the storm and the aftermath. Bruce moves all his first floor books to the upper floors in the bookstore and decides to stay put in his Victorian home, beautifully decorated by his wife Noelle, an antiques dealer. Mercer’s grandmother’s cottage may not be able to survive a direct hit by such a strong storm. Mercer is with her new beau Thomas, also a writer, but they have to evacuate the island before the book signing can ever take place. His bookstore is a popular stop on publishers’ marketing circuits. The island has attracted a small, oddball group of writers who enjoy each other’s company and are happy to be strong-armed into attending the book signings Cable sponsors. ![]() Bruce Cable is an enthusiastic fan of Mercer and he is an enthusiastic fan of all novelists, although he likes literary fiction best. John Grisham takes us to revisit Bruce Cable at his very popular bookstore when Mercer Mann is scheduled to do a reading and book signing for her new novel, named Tessa after her grandmother. Camino Winds takes us back to Camino Island just in time to greet a direct hit by a Category 4-5 hurricane named Leo. ![]()
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