A Pebble in the Water by Lisa Gray
Chapter 1
Shivering, Stephen pulled his overcoat closed against the nip in the spring air and refocused his thoughts on his immediate goal: cheesecake.
Sinful cheesecake.
Specifically, Le Moulin Rose’s three-inch-thick miracle of cream cheese and swirled caramel all topped with a Kahlua coffee glaze. Not something he needed to add to his already questionable waistline. But a few extra sessions at the gym would be well worth it.
After all, this was a two-fold celebration: one, the last day of tax season. For the first time in ten years, he’d declined to work beyond April 15th, abandoning all the panicky late filers to the other staff members. And two, Stephen Schuyler, rigidly (or was that boringly?) dedicated accountant, was at long last taking a vac
