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Departing From Tradition
For three decades, Ava Allen has dutifully hosted her family's Thanksgiving day tradition. However, after the last holiday drama, she decides to break free of her obligation to family and spend next Thanksgiving at a Colorado mountain resort with her closest friends. This departure from tradition follows Ava and her friends' page-turner drama from one Thanksgiving to the next. As Ava seeks solace at the resort, her tranquil getaway is threatened when an unexpected adversary from her past emerges at the resort.
Join Ava on a journey where tradition clashes with newfound freedom, secrets unravel, and forgiveness sets her free to embrace love again.
Embracing New Traditions
One year after letting go of her family’s Thanksgiving tradition, Ava Allen trades the Colorado mountains for the boulevards of Paris—with her closest friends by her side and her heart caught in a fragile balancing act. She’s navigating the delicate terrain of a collaborative manuscript with Roland, a man tied to her past in more ways than one.
As Thanksgiving approaches, her holiday becomes more than a celebration, it becomes a reckoning. When her friends read the manuscript in the City of Light, secrets surface, loyalties are tested, and Ava must decide if revealing her truth on the pages is enough or if she’s ready to live it out loud. Embracing New Traditions, Book 2 of The Next Thanksgiving trilogy, Wyvonne Page unfolds a story of creative vulnerability, personal reckoning, and the power of chosen family. Here, tradition is transformed through truth, forgiveness, redemption, and the courage to embrace what’s next.
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Beyond
Traditions
What happens when the ending you wrote for a love story no longer matches real life? Ava has spent years confronting betrayal, forgiveness, and the truths she once tried to protect herself from. Now, just as she finally allows herself to imagine a future with the man she has secretly longed to love, circumstances force her to question what that future will look like. As Ava and Roland prepare to finalize the book they wrote together, the line between their fictional story and their real lives becomes impossible to ignore. The truths they uncover have changed everything and Ava must face the reality that loving someone does not mean life will unfold the way the heart imagines. With everything she thought she wanted suddenly uncertain, Ava finds herself at the threshold of a future she never planned.
In this powerful finale Ava discovers that sometimes the hardest part of moving forward isn't knowing how the story will end. It's having the courage to embrace what comes next.
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Chapter One
The quiet morning Ava craved shattered the moment she heard his ringtone. She snatched up her cellphone, glared at his name flashing across the screen, and yelled, “Oh my God, Roland, stop! Not today!”
Finally, the screen went dark and his name disappeared. Ava sagged back against the cushion of her kitchen nook and exhaled, relief washing through her in a slow, shaky wave.
Just then, Celine entered the kitchen and paused, her gaze locking onto her mother’s face. “I’m sensing an unusual level of tension up in this kitchen—this morning.”
Ava forced a smile. “Oh, I’m okay. Just trying to focus on this article.”
“Well, give me a few minutes and I’ll whip up something hot and delicious for you to try.”
Celine smiled reassuringly, then turned to open the French doors of the stainless-steel refrigerator, removing the almond milk and whipped cream.
Ava picked up the Columbus Dispatch, determined to reclaim her focus on the Society page. She scanned the feature on the Christmas double wedding of her BFF, Victoria Stiles, and her son, Lincoln. Columbus was buzzing about it, but Ava’s mind kept drifting. Even without answering, just seeing Roland’s name hijacked her thoughts to their book collaboration, soon-to-be-published secrets, and the decisions she vowed to delay until after the holiday.
“Not today,” she whispered.
Celine returned and set a steaming mug on the smooth white granite tabletop. “Here you go, Mom. My CCC.”
“CCC?”
“Celine’s Creative Chai,” she beamed. “Taste it.”
Ava lifted the cup, eyeing the whipped cream and cherry perched on top. “Celine… this looks like something from Dairy Queen.”
“Dairy Queen wishes. Go on. Taste it.”
Ava took a sip, leaving a smudge of whipped cream on her nose. Celine’s grin widened as she handed Ava a napkin.
Ava tilted her head and nodded. “Tasty. But I don’t think you can take full credit.”
“No?” Celine planted her hands on her hips.
“I’m pretty sure I got a whiff of my cardamom.”
“Whatever, Mother.”
Ava chuckled as Celine turned on her heels, exiting the kitchen.
“Thank you, Daughter,” Ava called after her with playful affection. “By the way, am I meeting your plus-one before Victoria’s wedding?”
Celine kept walking down the hall, her mother’s question hanging in the air.
The kitchen fell quiet again. Ava wrapped both hands around her mug, letting the warmth settle into her palms. She’d barely taken a second sip when Roland’s ringtone started again, slicing through the silence.
Her stomach tightened. This time, she answered—reluctantly, with a scowl. “Hello, Roland. What’s up?”
His customary, “Hey baby,” coaxed an involuntary smile from her. “I’m just sitting at my desk here in Denver reading the wedding announcement of your girl, Victoria.”
Ava blinked. “What a coincidence. I’m reading it as well.”
“Do you have a plus one?”
“Uh, as a matter of fact, no. I don’t. Why do you ask?”
“Well, think about it. Why would I be asking except to hope out loud… that you bestow me the honor.”
Ava frowned—the audacity of him. Before she could respond, Roland continued.
“Well, your BFFs have already read our book, right? Our secrets are already exposed, so…”
“And I told you about their harsh reactions,” Ava cut in. “And the part about Eileen, your fake wife—suggesting I meet with her so she can share the secret behind your fake marriage? Well, that didn’t go over too well. At all. Besides, Roland. I won’t have time to prepare my friends for a favorable reaction to me… waltzing into Victoria’s wedding with you on my arm. Especially when the wedding is in two days.”
“Well, whatever you decide, baby. I don’t want to pressure you—just as long as you make time for you and me. I’m coming to Ohio bearing gifts for Christmas.”
Ava pressed her fingers to her temple. Given the two options, she chose the safer one, agreeing to a visit over the holidays. Even without the privacy they had, hundreds of miles away at The Homestead in Beaufort, meeting Roland on her home turf was far better than waltzing him into the wedding as her plus-one.
They ended the call, but he stayed on her mind. A shiver ran through her at the memory of Roland’s touch — his hands like magic, massaging her scalp. With her eyes closed, Ava slid her fingers through each braid, massaging the parts as if to summon the thrill again. But her touch didn’t spark a thing. And when she remembered Roland’s soft lips brushing her skin, an ache she prayed to keep buried stirred awake. She dropped her hand, disgusted — yet unable to deny the complicated pull this man still had on her.
Reverie
In Wyvonne's contribution to the Reverie, she shares a deeply personal fictional account inspired by her survival of the 2022 hurricane that struck Southwest Florida, making landfall in Fort Myers. Her short story, IAN, The Hurricane and the Man, appears in the Reverie anthology — a haunting, heartfelt reflection on memory, resilience, and the unexpected ways lives collide in the eye of a storm.
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