Candace Camp Books Novels & Stories

Several Weeks Later Jasper slowly eased his body onto its side. Mimicking sleep, he intently listened to the conversation between a young woman named, Cora, and the old nurse he’d heard called both Bess and Smithfield. He’d assumed that her true name was Elizabeth Smithfield with Bess being the nick name for Elizabeth, but names were funny things. He’d noticed the increasing pattern of nick names or abbreviated names being given to children at birth by parents wanting to be different. Therefore, he could have been incorrect on that assumption.

"Finally home!" Cela said to herself as soon as she stepped inside her apartment. It's still bare but already messy. Papers are everywhere and trash cans are full of empty soda bottles, instant noodle bowls, and take out containers. The evidence of working almost non-stop prior to the release of the second book are still inside the house. She couldn't even find time to take them out.

I might take it up with him as a joke sometimes, but I am starting to feel more serious about the idea. I decide to catch a bus home and arrive at a noisy apartment. Just as I open the front door something flies by my head, smashing behind me and a screaming Candace appears “I’m done Aiden! I can do so much better than THIS!” She storms out with a single bag but I can see she has packed up her belongings and when I make my way inside I see a deflated Aiden sitting on the floor of the living room.