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Authors: Maddy Hunter

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BOOK: Fleur De Lies
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“Cigar, Emily?” He waved a fistful in my direction.

“What are you celebrating?”

He raced over to me like a stick figure in an animated short. “I’m a father!” He shoved a cigar at me, a goofy grin on his face, the rest of his body doing a little jump around.

“Oh, my God! How do you know? Did Solange tell you?”

“She didn’t need to.”

I spoke to him in a gentle voice. “Osmond, if she didn’t tell you, how can you possibly be sure?”

“Because the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.”

“What do you mean by that?”

“She’s been writing to me all morning about what her kids do for a living.”

“And?”

“And her son Osmond? He’s a political pollster!”

the end

about the author

After experiencing disastrous vacations on three continents, Maddy Hunter decided to combine her love of humor, travel, and storytelling to fictionalize her misadventures. Inspired by her feisty aunt and by memories of her Irish grandmother, she created the nationally bestselling, Agatha Award–nominated Passport to Peril mystery series, where quirky seniors from Iowa get to relive everything that went wrong on Maddy’s holiday.
Fleur de Lies
is the ninth book in the series. Maddy lives in Madison, Wisconsin, with her husband and a head full of imaginary characters who keep asking, “Are we there yet?”

Please visit her website at www.maddyhunter.com, or become a follower on her Maddy Hunter Facebook Fan Page.

Author photo by © Photo Express.

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