“Sometimes, you find yourself inadvertently in the dark. But I’d discovered that if you stopped fighting against it and just stood still, sometimes something marvelous comes along.”
Artist Lexie McCain spends her days literally weaving the story of her life into a gorgeous tapestry. But on Monday nights, she walks to the Corner Bar, drinks a Killian’s, and answers the same question every week from Sam the bartender: “One thing?” She starts with her name, then her cottage, slowly moving on to the devastating tragedies that tore her life apart.
Sam Corner’s smile doesn’t seem to hide any pain. One night, Lexie turns the tables on him, asking Sam, “One thing?” To her surprise, Sam reveals his own tragic history. Together, Lexie and Sam learn that, with good beer and a trusted friend, sharing just “one thing” might lead to the one thing they both thought was lost forever: love.
From award-winning author Holly Jacobs comes the story of heartache, hope, and the power of sharing just one thing.
Recent Related PTSD Treatment Findings Add/Clarify a point touched on by other reviewers. Recent studies in Psychology and Psychiatry, some of them as a result of trying to find non drug treatments for the tremendous surge of interest in PTSD as experienced by U.S. soldiers (both in theater and after coming home) who have served in Afghanistan and/or Iraq (yes it certainly applies to many soldiers, from many wars in history) and also to anyone who has experienced psychological trauma of any sort, from a car accident to rape,…
Just One Thing This is not your typical romance. It’s not a fantasy of falling in love or even about two people’s adventures together. This is the story of Lexie’s life and some of the life altering events from the time she met her husband back in college until present. It’s about her accomplishments and her heartbreaking losses. After the weight of her guilt, sadness and heartache, she basically just closed herself off to the numbness. Then she meets Sam at The Corner Bar. Every Monday she arrives and orders…
One woman’s journey It’s my favorite kind of book, the woman’s journey, plus it was written by the uber-talented Holly Jacobs, so buying it was a no-brainer. Being a dead loss all afternoon and evening while I read it, snuffling my way through a stack of tissues, and going back and reading a few parts just to re-experience the emotion of them–those were all unexpected. I’m often tempted to go to the ends of books because I’m always in a hurry and many times the middles don’t keep me enthralled enough not to skip…