Chapter 2
Friday Afternoon
It had been almost a decade since the previous wedding between her parents, and four years since Jessica’s last visit to Eagle Cove. Her life had kept her busy and the time had slipped by too easily to notice.
To push back the guilt, she concentrated on the view out the car window as they drove through town.
It was amazing how little yet how much Eagle Cove had changed. Or rather how little it had changed and how much she noticed each detail that had. The Flicker movie theater across from the diner still had a massive chainsaw carving of a northern flicker woodpecker clutching the marquee, but it also sported a fading sign which proudly declared: “Now in Digital!” They were running The Big Year. She’d bet that they reran the birding film every year for the s
