Novel in blog form: Stonyfields

Stonyfields, a novel in blog form, is a love triangle with a twist. It’s a love story about a woman, a man and some land. Radio talk-show host Katherine Glee buys an old farmhouse and meets Rick Burman, a neighbour with knowledge of all things rural, from building fires to country walks. He refinishes furniture, does renovations and still looks great in a suit. He’s every countrywoman’s dream. Then Kate’s life begins to unravel. Her “Health and Healing” program is in jeopardy because it’s not attracting the crucial 18-to-34-year-old audience. And wonderful Rick pops the question, but with conditions that will destroy the land and lifestyle that Kate has come to love.

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CHAPTER 1, Part 1: Katherine Glee fell in love at first sight.
Ch.1, Pt. 2: The next day, Katherine returned to the house for a closer look.
Ch.1, Pt 3: Three months later, she owned the little grey stone house.
Ch.1, Pt 4: Car tires crunched on the driveway.
Ch.1, Pt 5: Upstairs, Katherine and Frieda set up the big brass bed…
Ch.1, Pt 6: “Don’t worry about me,” said Katherine.
CHAPTER 2: Part 1: Katherine opened her eyes and didn’t know…
Ch.2, Pt.2: A man was walking toward the stable…
Ch.2, Pt.3: Katherine tried to forget about Rick…
CHAPTER 3, Part 1: Monday morning in the Health and Healing office…
Ch.3, Pt.2: When the last interviews of the day were finished…
Ch.3, Pt.3: Katherine left the station and drove out of town…
Ch.3, Pt.4: Just outside a door was a small garden…
Ch.3, Pt.5: Wild grasses and flowering plants grew…
CHAPTER 4: Part 1: Was she doing the right thing?
Ch.4, Pt.2: After saying goodbye to Clara
CHAPTER 5, Part 1: When morning came, she went down to the kitchen…
Ch.5, Pt.2: “Hi, Kate,” he said in a low voice.
Ch.5, Pt. 3: To her horror, Katherine felt herself blush.
CHAPTER 6: Part 1: “So what have we got?”
Ch.6, Pt.2: This is not good news.
Ch.6, Pt.3: Katherine laughed a third time…
Ch.6, Pt.4: A few days later, a pickup truck…
Ch.6, Pt.5: “He wants to know if I can cook…”
Ch.6, Pt.6: “Does that mean you’re willing to see me again?”
Ch.6, Pt.7: Firetrucks roared down the road…
Ch.6, Pt.8: She let herself be led into the kitchen.
CHAPTER 7: Part 1: In the middle of the great dark soothingness of sleep…
Ch.7, Pt.2: After, she went downstairs…
Ch.7, Pt.3: She gazed into the dark pool…
CHAPTER 8, Part 1: Theme music came through Katherine’s headphones…
Ch.8, Pt.2: “Do you always use a condom?”
Ch.8, Pt.3: She tried to do a little more work…
Ch.8, Pt.4: “You say Rick Burman was over?”
Ch.8, Pt.5: A jolt ran through her body
Ch.8, Pt.6: Katherine stared at him, barely breathing…
Ch.8, Pt.7: “I’ve hurt you…
CHAPTER 9, Part 1: “You’re in the honeymoon phase…”
Ch.9, Pt. 2: “No one can see us…
Ch.9, Pt. 3: “Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do”
Ch.9, Pt. 4: “You said you love me!”
CHAPTER 10, Part 1: “Lawrence, can you join us?
Ch.10, Pt. 2: A few days later
Ch. 10, Pt. 3: Breakfast was early the next day
Ch.10, Pt. 4: In the afternoon Lawrence arrived…
Ch.10, Pt. 5: “A friend of mine has died”
Ch.10, Pt.6: The small Anglican Church was packed.
Ch.10, Pt.7: Katherine didn’t hear from Rick…
Ch.10, Pt.8: Promptly at 8:00 on New Year’s Eve
CHAPTER 11: Part 1: Snow banks lined the sides of the roads
Ch.11, Pt. 2: Here there was deep silence
Ch.11, Pt. 3: “You want us to live together?”
CHAPTER 12: Part 1: “Is that all right…?”
Ch.12, Pt. 2: “A little sherry in the afternoon…”
Ch.12, Pt. 3: Blaine looked a little annoyed…
Ch.12, Pt. 4: You’re not getting younger.
CHAPTER 13: Part 1: Katherine opened her eyes.
Ch.13, Pt. 2: On Friday evening…
Ch.13, Pt. 3: “You mean I can fight this.”
CHAPTER 14, Part 1: Katherine stared into the toilet bowl…
Ch.14, Pt.2: Katherine was just coming into the kitchen…
Ch.14, Pt. 3: Katherine let Frieda stroke her…
Ch.14, Pt.4: “I know what it’s like to meet a wonderful new man.”
Ch.14, Pt. 5: Katherine finished her wrap of Thursday’s show…
CHAPTER 15, Part 1: Around nine o’clock…
Ch.15, Pt.2: After work days later
Ch.15, Pt.3: “Glad to help,” he said…
Ch.15, Pt.4: The council chambers were full…
Ch.15, Pt.5: “The land in question is not desirable…”
Ch.15, Pt.6: The smell in the air was somehow exciting…
Ch.15, Pt.7: Katherine was the first one to work that morning.
Ch.15, Pt.8: The meeting with Blaine that afternoon was far from routine.
CHAPTER 16: Part 1: “We need a good cup…
Ch.16, Pt.2: It’s so great of Lawrence…
Ch.16, Pt.3: “You know I care a lot about you.
Ch.16, Pt.4: When Katherine came into work the next day…
Ch.16, Pt.5: Greenvale was yet another fabulous property…
CHAPTER 17, Part 1: The best thing about this arrangement with Bennett Clark…
Ch.17, Pt.2: On the home front…
Ch. 17, Pt.3: Katherine grinned and gave his hand a good pump.
Ch.17, Pt.4: Something in his voice sounded different…