Safe Harbor: A Short Story

by Joyce Sterling Scarbrough

Cal Pardue and his grandfather have taken care of each other just fine without any women in their lives, then Hurricane Katrina destroys their house and forces them to live on their crab boat. When Amos has to go into a nursing home after a hip injury, Cal is suspicious of Jasmine Gregory, the beautiful but annoying social worker who takes a shine to his grandfather. And wouldn't you know it--Cal and Jasmine discover their animosity stems from a mutual attraction neither of them wants to admit.

32 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 27, 2014

About the author

Joyce is an intelligent Southern woman weary of seeing herself and her peers portrayed in books and movies as either post-antebellum debutantes or barefoot hillbillies á la Daisy Duke, so all her heroines are smart, unpretentious women who refuse to be anyone but themselves. In addition to her novels, she has short stories featured in several anthologies.

Joyce has lived all her life in southern Alabama, she's the mother of three gifted children, and she's been married for over 30 years to her husband Tony—a public school teacher, coach extraordinaire, and the love of her life.