Elijah works in a cubicle, lives with his parents, and never goes on dates. It isn’t an exciting life, but it’s safe and easy and that’s good enough. Then he meets Peter, a whirlwind of a man who leads a traveling renaissance band. Peter represents everything Eli usually avoids, but his boisterous enthusiasm is infectious… and his band needs a fiddle player. When Eli agrees to fill in for a weekend, he awakens a part of himself he thought long gone. With Peter’s help, he shakes off the dust that has settled on his soul and remembers how to have fun. But when the band asks him to join them permanently, is Eli’s newborn sense of adventure -- and insane crush on a man he barely knows -- enough to make him leave the safety of a life he’s clung to for years?

Jigs and Reels

The good mood lasted all the way until 9:17, when my boss, MaryAnn, arrived, hauling more bags than any one person should reasonably need at work. By 9:30, the emails began.


We received a complaint from a client yesterday. Due to this, going forward, our policies are changing…


Personal packages should not be shipped to this address. We will be monitoring all incoming packages. Blah, blah, blah.


Tardiness is not acceptable. Repeat offenses can lead to termination. Consult the employee handbook, which you have all read…Blah, blah blah, blah blah.


“That’s rich,” Ellen, my cubicle neighbor, scoffed. “MaryAnn getting on us about tardiness. That bitch couldn’t make it to work on time if her life depended on it.”


Chapter 6