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This short story is excerpted from the upcoming collection of stories Damage Control by Amber Dermont, to be published in March 2013.One by one, the wives of Portsmouth, Rhode Island are disappearing from Darling Vista Park. Detective Mitchell Landry searches for the rhyme, reason, and meaning behind each of these disappearances by investigating their husbands and trying to find the missing connections between them. But are there connections to be made, or are these random similarities merely coincidences? Who had the means, motive, and opportunity to steal the wives of Portsmouth? What happened to them, and more importantly, why? As Detective Landry delves deeper into the lives of these women, he tries to makes sense of his own wife''s suicide, and wonders why some questions simply have no answer.
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It is the summer of 1987. Jason Prosper is eighteen and on his way to Bellingham Academy, a school known for offering wayward privileged students a second chance - and Jason needs a second chance: ever since his best friend''s suicide, his life has been badly adrift. At Bellingham, Jason joins the sailing team, and meets a compelling young woman called Aidan. His friends warn him off, saying she is ''damaged goods''. But Jason feels like damaged too, and the pair form an intense connection. But when a major hurricane gathers just off the coast, Jason''s world begins to cloud over again. And when the full extent of the storm''s damage is finally revealed, the truths it lays bare - and the secrets it dredges up - look set to alter the course of Jason life forever.