One Life Is Not Enough

About the Book

Susan Holms was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and she swore she would never leave Atlanta. He worked for a law firm as a legal secretary and there she met her future husband, Jeff Holms. Susan married into his wealthy, aristocratic family. She lived in the elite social circle of Atlanta society with her cheating husband. The two things that held Susan together were her best friend, Jackie, and Susans son, Chris. When Jackie and her husband, Ron Colder, moved to Lanai in the Hawaiian Islands to run a dental practice for the Dole Pineapple Company, their departure left a great void in Susans unhappy life.

On Susans fortieth birthday she began to objectively take stock of her life. She questioned her purpose for being here and how to find her inner self. Pondering these thoughts and what to do about her shaky marriage, she decided to take a vacation in Hawaii and see her longtime friend.

Susan was surprised to find Jackie and Ron divorced, though still living together, on their sixty-foot sailboat named Atlanta. Jackie was emotionally involved with a handsome medical doctor on the island.

When Jackie was unable to keep a luncheon date with Susan one day at the Hotel Lanai restaurant, Craig Stevenson came in her place. The handsome doctor questioned Susans motives for being in Hawaii. Also, he answered some of her questions about her inner self. Susan found the doctor to be well-informed about spiritual matters, as well as involved in research to eradicate the hepatitis-C virus. Susan was immediately attracted to the handsome doctor, and his feelings were reciprocated by her.

The advances of Ron Colder, meanwhile, were an annoyance to Susan on their sailing trips. On their sailing voyage to the Fanning Island from Lanai, the Atlanta was tossed about in a storm that seemed to come out of nowhere. In the struggle to lower the sails in the strong winds, Jackie was swept overboard into the wild sea and drowned. Susan and Ron managed to survive the raging sea and navigated the sailboat back to Honolulu.

This was a turning point in Susans life and in regard to her view of Ron. She had to stay on the island for two weeks pending the police investigation of Jackies drowning. Ron disguised his intentions by asking Susan to go to Honolulu with him to retrieve Jackies belongings from the Atlanta.

Ron made reservations for them to stay at the famous Moana Hotel on Waikiki Beach. The beauty and enchanting atmosphere with the alluring Hawaiian music brought their hearts together in a passionate love affair. Rons and Susans lives were changed by their love for one another. Susan planned to return to Atlanta to finalize her divorce from Jeff. Ron requested to terminate his contract with the Dole Pineapple Company as a dentist in their dental clinic. He was released from his contract and would join Susan in thirty days.

When leaving Lanai for Atlanta, Susan had a two-hour layover in Honolulu before her flight would depart for San Francisco. Craig Stevenson was waiting for her when she came off the plane in Honolulu. He surprised her by being there. In the Aloha Bar in the airport, over a glass of wine, he told her that he loved her. Then he asked her to promise him that if, in ten months, she felt the same way in her heart, to meet him back there on June 30 at six p.m. Then he told her that Jackie had breast cancer and had wanted to keep it a secret. Susan couldnt tell Craig her secret, that she planned to marry Ron.

In October, Ron and Susan said their vows under the white gazebo in a bed of flowers in their back yard in Atlanta. Their life seemed complete with friends and family attending the beautiful ceremony.

Their honeymoon on Hilton Head Island was mixed with business. Ron planed to work there in a dental clinic. He purchased a deep-sea fishing boat, and they signed a lease/purchase agreement on a South Beach villa. Life was moving too fast for Susan; she kept having these feelings that something was going to happen to shat

About the Author

Nellie Jackson is a native of Florida, but at the present time, is a resident of Missouri. Out of her life experiences and travels came the autobiography If I Had It All To Do Over.

Her next book, The Record Of Heaven, shares with her readers the opening of the doors of her subconscious mind back when she was spirit moving in the heavens.

Her new book release is Sirquave, One With Wings, a powerful, moving novel of Native Americans.

Nellie Jackson has had her poetry published by the American Poetry Association, the Fine Arts Press, Amherst Society and many others. She has had a number of inspirational songs produced, and she has collaborated on works of text and photography. Nellie is an accomplished lecturer who has spoken extensively in the United States and abroad, and she has appeared on numerous radio programs.