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EXCLUSIVE ARIES EXCERPT<br />
Liam’s vision of a tropical vacation<br />
with cocktails and cabana boys faded<br />
away with the tide and instead there<br />
was this, a special hell, surrounded<br />
by screaming kids and overweight<br />
moms. Alex really knew how to give<br />
his best friend a good time.<br />
Liam leaned against the glass and<br />
sighed. Somewhere up there, Alex<br />
was laughing at him. The bastard<br />
could have given him a train ticket<br />
to anywhere; the Orient Express, for<br />
instance. The lyrics said a “Ticket<br />
to Ride,” not fucking Ryde. But no,<br />
Alex loved the Isle of Wight after a<br />
summer vacation during college and<br />
he would not be moved. So a ticket<br />
to the ass end of nowhere it was.<br />
Maybe Alex had secretly hated him<br />
all these years.<br />
hen Liam Marshall’s best friend, until Sam Owens comes to his<br />
Alex, loses his fight with colon rescue.<br />
cancer, he leaves Liam one final<br />
Sam’s family has vacationed<br />
on the Isle of Wight ev-<br />
request: buy a ticket to Ryde,<br />
on the Isle of Wight, and scatter ery year for as long as he can<br />
Alex’s ashes off the pier. Liam is remember, but he’s never met<br />
tired, worn out, and in desperate anyone like Liam. Determined to<br />
need of a vacation, but instead of make Liam’s vacation one to remember,<br />
Sam looks after him—in<br />
sun, sea, sand, and hot cabana<br />
boys, he gets a rickety old train, and out of the bedroom. He even<br />
revolting kids, and no Ewan Mac- introduces Liam to his entire family.<br />
But as Sam helps Liam let go,<br />
Gregor.<br />
Liam would have done he’s forced to admit that he wants<br />
anything for his friend, but fulfilling<br />
Alex’s final wish means letting life, but to Sam and what they<br />
Liam to hang on—not to his old<br />
go of the only family Liam had have together.<br />
left. Lost, he freezes on the pier…<br />
JUNE <strong>2014</strong> / ARIES 118<br />
The Isle of Wight was obviously<br />
a popular destination for families,<br />
because from the second Liam had<br />
gotten on the ferry to the island he<br />
hadn’t been able to get away from<br />
whining brats. Liam wasn’t one of<br />
those men whose life was going to<br />
be completed by progeny. He liked<br />
Kathy well enough, even though<br />
he’d deny it if pushed, but she was<br />
Alex’s kid, so of course Liam liked<br />
her. Children en masse were hell on<br />
earth. Particularly the little fucker<br />
behind him.<br />
The train eventually reached Ryde.<br />
Could any train ride be so slow? The<br />
island was the size of a handkerchief.<br />
The majority of the crowd got off,<br />
to Liam’s relief. He was particularly<br />
pleased to be rid of the evil kid<br />
who had spent most of the journey<br />
kicking the back of his seat. After<br />
days of riding this train from hell, he<br />
had no patience for some bored brat.<br />
He’d glared at the monster when the<br />
kicking had started, and then tried<br />
glaring at the mother. The woman<br />
had stared back with sublime indifference.<br />
Liam thought about moving
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