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    First Light: Amish and Basketball Romance Story
    First Light: Amish and Basketball Romance Story
    First Light: Amish and Basketball Romance Story
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    First Light: Amish and Basketball Romance Story

    By Bethanee Rajchman

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    Jemma Glick, a young Amish woman, leaves the community after the death of both her parents to reconnect with her past in the English world. She finds herself once more embroiled in the love of one Kingsley Turner, her college sweetheart and present NBA star for the Miami Heat. However in the decade, they've been separated, the life of a NBA star has taken its toll on the man Jemma used to know. Will she stick around when his demons come out to play?

     

    This is a standalone romance short story ending HEA!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPN.Books
    Release dateJun 4, 2020
    ISBN9781393964889
    First Light: Amish and Basketball Romance Story

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      First Light - Bethanee Rajchman

      Copyright © 2018 by Bethanee Rajchman

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Some characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

      Thank you very much for reading this book.

      Title Page

      Title: First Light

      Subtitle: A Clean Amish and Basketball Romance Story

      Author: Bethanee Rajchman

      Table of Contents

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      Title Page

      First Light

      Description

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      First Light

      Description

      Jemma Glick, a young Amish woman, leaves the community after the death of both her parents to reconnect with her past in the English world. She finds herself once more embroiled in the love of one Kingsley Turner, her college sweetheart and present NBA star for the Miami Heat. However in the decade, they’ve been separated, the life of a NBA star has taken its toll on the man Jemma used to know. Will she stick around when his demons come out to play?

      Chapter 1

      Jemma shrank into the welcoming upholstery of her cousin’s car. Beulah had just ran into the supermarket to pick up some lemons for tonight’s dinner, but a large group of rather boisterous teenagers were passing nearby in the Whole Foods parking lot and Jemma was not in the mood to be gawked at, laughed at or talked about, anymore today. She had just gotten off the bus from Pennsylvania to Miami and in that foray had managed to draw enough attention from total strangers to last her a lifetime. She only relaxed from her rather futile efforts to shrink into obscurity, when the teenagers faded from her visual scope.

      She began fervently praying that Beulah would walk out the doors before anyone else passed close enough to catch a glimpse of her through the window. Frankly, she should have known better than to wear her Amish clothes into the outside world, this wasn’t her first time beyond the forests of her community. She had called the outside world ‘home’, for her four years of college, as a matter of fact, she had at one point, planned to call it home for the rest of her life. That obviously had changed, but now, a decade later, she was contemplating calling it home again.

      At that moment, Jemma spotted Beulah walking towards her, hips swaying enticingly in a scandalously tight, by Amish standards, pencil skirt. Granted, Jemma had seen her in articles of clothing that would have been considered scandalous by anyone’s standards, during their college days. But of course, that had been back when Beulah had become intoxicated with the autonomy and freedom the outside world offered. Before she had been excommunicated by the Church and thereby cut off from everything she had ever known. The trauma of her excommunication had spurred an interesting tug-of-war in Beulah’s personality. A part of her was constantly in rebellion of the strict nature of her upbringing, while another part deeply craved the community she had lost. Thus Beulah was forever oscillating between the ultra-conservative to the outrageous, again by Amish standards.  This meant

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