Title: How Strange It Is To Say Goodbye
Book 2 in The Stranger Series
Author: Megs
Rating: PG-13
Pairing(s): Bianca/Maggie, Kendall/?
Plot: Maggie Bennett, formally Maggie Stone, is the Cambias heir. With this new title comes a great deal of responsibility and a new direction for her life. Maggie is still one of the prime suspects in her half-brother, Michael Cambias', murder. While trying to prove her innocence Maggie is faced with a new reality—Bianca Montgomery does not love her.
Heart broken and distraught she runs into the arms of her oldest living friend, Billy Allan, and only remaining family member, David Hayward. Together the two men try and stop Maggie from doing something that she will regret for the rest of her life in her attempt at retaliation against all of those who have wronged her.
As the year comes to a grateful close Maggie is presented with a new dilemma in her relationship with Bianca. While the New Year brings with it two new faces to Pine Valley. Both with their separate intents to find and dethrone Maggie from her new throne atop the Cambias Empire.
Installment One: An End Before There Was A Beginning
Installment Two: An Expected Guest Arrives
Installment Three: Strange Businesses
Installment Four: The Murder Trial
Installment Five: Strangers Come to Town
Installment Six: How Strange It Is To Say Goodbye
Intro
Maggie Stone's life has gone from scheduled routine to sudden ongoing chaos.
Maggie's life was altered from its original path when she received a call that her mother had died in a car crash. Maggie's life—and last name—changed and continued to change as her long lost biological father revealed himself. Maggie spent her time debating whether or not she should allow her heart to open up to the man that was knocking on death's door. Deciding it was better to know him than not to know him no matter the fact that he was Alexander Cambias.
Maggie spent all of her free time after her mother's funeral with her father. She grew to know the man that both sons never met, a loving and caring old man who had made mistakes in his long life. Intent to ensure Maggie a prosperous future he left to her the Cambias fortune and the empire he had built up from the ground.
Sadly, death came for Alexander all too quickly, leaving Maggie alone and heartbroken. With her parents buried and finally together once again in death, Maggie returned to Pine Valley with a great dilemma. What to tell her friends and the world of the secret she had uncovered after her mother's death.
It wasn't long before her hand was forced by Ryan Lavery—the man who would have inherited her father's fortune had he not known of her existence. In Ryan's attempt to blackmail Maggie into giving him Cambias and herself, she found the strength and courage to tell not only Bianca of her true parentage but the social elite and world. The world and Bianca did not take the news well.
Now, with the last name of Bennett—her mother's maiden name—Maggie is facing the world as the recently proclaimed heir to the Cambias fortune without her best friend.
The life Maggie once lived is over.
Maggie is no longer the scared or childish college student, but a confident and still caring and sarcastic woman. Though faced with public ridicule and scrutiny over her parentage and the upcoming murder trial for her half-brother, in which she is a prime suspect, Maggie does her best to remain strong.
With the help of her friends—both old and new—she plans to take the world by storm.
While maybe—if she's lucky—getting the woman of her dreams, Bianca Montgomery.
End Intro