Wishes & Promises — Grace Harper

The six stories are set in the fictional town of Jackson's Bay that only comes alive once a year. Ipris Magazine has its gala ball at the Imperial Estate on top of the cliffs, and this year they are celebrating 140 years of publication. The town is basking in an usually long heat wave. Clothes are coming off, and inhibitions are being lost. We follow twenty-two people throughout the week leading up to the party. Secrets, revelations, ambitions and desires will come to the forefront. Will the men and women overcome inhibitions, stigma and blackmailers by the time they attend the Gala celebrations that will have over a thousand people in attendance?Wishes & Promises is the third of six books. Natalie and Geoff Grant are in Jackson's Bay for their annual family holiday. It is a bittersweet time as their twin children are moving on with their lives. Their daughter, Alice runs a nonprofit business called Letters Over The Ocean, an online company that matches service men and women for love and friendship. That's where she met her very own soldier boy. They have been a couple for a year but have never met, until now. Will reality burst their young love?Their son, Finn, is moving away from home to attend University. He had been in mixing with the wrong crowd and was wrongly arrested. On his first evening, he has the choice to turn left or turn right. He turns left and meets Nadia. Did he make the correct choice?Geoff and Natalie have their own issues to overcome. Natalie is a secret crime writer and needs to decide if she is going to go public. Geoff runs London's crime unit, but at home, he needs to face his short comings. Is Natalie's patience running out and had Geoff lost his chance to face his biggest fear?Will each member of the Grant family find happiness by the time the Ipris Gala arrives?