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A love letter to the Beatles, for fans of Love and Gelato and Everybody Sees the Ants.

When Jo lost her father three years earlier under mysterious circumstances, he began appearing in her dreams, beckoning her to London where hed been the lead singer of an internationally acclaimed Beatles cover band.

She has long been almost certain he isnt really dead, but she cant shake the feeling that somethings being kept from her. So when she has the opportunity to go to London, she jumps at the chance to follow his trail.

Once in London, Jo meets Henry, a broody, Beatles-hating photographer whos an intriguing mix of quantum physics and pseudoscience...and just might have the key to finding her father.

Armed with an atlas of Britains supernatural ley lines and a tenuous friendship, they set out to uncover the truth and discover what theyve grown to mean to each other.

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All the Lonely People
Jen Marie Hawkins
Owl Hollow Press
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Praise for All the Lonely People

a tender and heartfelt journey through grief. With The Beatles music woven into the fabric of the story, and an unforgettable romance, this is one book you wont want to put down until the end.


Sonia Hartl (Have a Little Faith in Me, Page Street and Heartbreak for Hire, Gallery Books)


touching, poignant, beautifully-written, fast-paced, irresistibly romantic and funny. Oh my gosh, funny. You can read this in any mood and it will lift you up. Don't miss this one! Jen Marie Hawkins is a fresh, beguiling new voice in must-read YA.

Elly Blake, NYT Bestselling author of the Frostblood series

Owl Hollow Press, LLC, Springville, UT 84663


This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the authors imagination. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, or to businesses, companies, events, institutions, or locales is completely coincidental.


All the Lonely People

Copyright 2021 by Jen Marie Hawkins


All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, without prior written permission.


Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

All the Lonely People / J.M. Hawkins First edition.


Summary:

When Jo lost her father three years earlier under mysterious circumstances, he began appearing in her dreams, beckoning her to London where hed been the lead singer of an internationally acclaimed Beatles cover band. Armed with an atlas of Britains supernatural ley lines and a tenuous friendship, she sets out with a new friend to uncover the truth and discover what theyve grown to mean to each other.

ISBN 978-1-945654-78-7 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-945654-79-4 (e-book)

LCCN TBD


Cover design by Jen Marie Hawkins. Image via Shutterstock.

OwlHollowPresscom For my boys Jonathan and Jackson You are both my - photo 1

OwlHollowPress.com

For my boys,

Jonathan and Jackson.

You are both

my best and brightest dreams

come to life.

A dream you dream alone

is only a dream.

A dream you dream together

is reality.


John Lennon

Chapter 1
: Across the Universe :
BEYOND THE INTERNATIONAL arrivals gate at Heathrow welcome-to-London fanfare - photo 2

BEYOND THE INTERNATIONAL arrivals gate at Heathrow, welcome-to-London fanfare swirls like confetti thats meant for someone else. Fellow passengers move past me toward families and friends and people holding signs with their names on them.

Only Pops memory has shown up to greet me.

He flickers like a hologram in my periphery, parting a sea of people with guitar riffs. A playful grin stretches through his wild, penny-red beard. He opens his mouth and sings off-key: Jojo was a girl who thought she was a loner. Its on purposethe changed lyrics and the fact its off-keybecause of course its on purpose. Pop had pipes, and he regularly threw himself on the altar of humiliation to make me smile.

See, that is the Pop I remember. He wasnt a die-in-a-hotel-room-with-a-needle-in-his-arm kind of guy. And Ive come here to prove that.

Floor-to-ceiling glass stretches up one side of the terminal, dumping buckets of gray evening light inside. Pop always went on and on about the silver sky, and I get it now. Poof. The past tense in my head makes him disappear. He fades into the secret letter folded in my wallet.

A near-constant pain reverberates along my solar plexus. I try to ignore it, but it has the tinny, extended frequency of a crashed cymbal. Even when the song is over, the residue lingers.

I hobble over and take a seat in a chair next to baggage claim, and while I wait, tilt my phones viewfinder until my feet fill the camera screen.

Right foot: tucked snug-as-a-bug in a red ballet flat. Left foot: bare. Click.

Caption: shoe theft at twenty-thousand feet

My left shoe was missing when I woke up on the tarmac. It vanished at some point after Id fallen asleep. Id waited until the man-spreader beside me started snoring before I closed my eyes; he had a certain vibe from the moment he harrumphed into the aisle seat and trapped me in. My suspicion was confirmed when he rubbernecked the romance novel Lexie let me borrow for the flight. I always skip to the good parts, and he caught me, as evidenced by his sleazy eyebrow wiggle.

After that, he insisted on calling me little lady while hogging my armrest and regaling me on the success of his biz-niss in Chah-lutt. Frankly, hes the kind of Southerner that makes the rest of us look bad. Everyone knows the type. It wasnt what he said, but how he said it, all leering and obnoxious. Former Auburn football coach meets Foghorn Leghorn.

When I woke up, he was gone, along with my shoe.

I knew I wouldnt find it. Two weeks ago, before I found out Id be coming here, I dreamed I was standing shoeless in an airport. This odd little psychic dream phenomenon has been happening on and off for three years: I dream it, and then it happens.

Sometimes the details vary a smidge. Im only missing one shoe; in the dream, I was missing both. And Im standing on plain gray tile instead of gleaming white marble. I guess my sixth sense assumes European airports are fancier and shoe thieves are more thorough.

There have been times, though, that Ive relived a dream exactly as it happened while I slept. The first time was right after Pop died. Mama and I had gone to the grocery store one Saturday afternoon, and while I was waiting on her to finish checking out, Pops voice whispered: You want some gum? A slant of sunlight broke in through the storefront and bathed the gumball machine in an otherworldly glow. I went to it. Without putting a quarter in, I reached up and turned the handle. It cranked one, two, three times, and then the whole thing poured out in my hands. A few smaller kids ran over and picked up the ones that slipped through my fingersred and blue and purple hitting the floor in a chorus of pops and tinkles.

I knew Id leave the store with my pockets full of gumballs before I ever touched the knob that day, because Id dreamed it the night before. Pop stood on the edge of my periphery, giving me a thumbs-up. When I turned, he was gone.

There have been many of these dreams, but theres one in particular that Im desperate to make a reality. The dreams are the real reason Ive come here, but nobody else knows that. On paper, Im here to make college visits and skip a senior year elective. I cant go around telling folks that Pop is sending me winks and nudges and beckoning me to the UK, through psychic dreams, to clear his name. People (like me) who have daily medication regimens know which things to keep zipped up. Faking normal is imperative. Faking normal is how I got my psychiatrist to sign off on five weeks between sessions so I could make this trip.

Theres one other suspicion I cant tell anyone abouta less likely oneso I just need to disprove it: What if Pop is still somewhere in the UK, alive? And the urn in my carry-on bag is full of dust instead of his remains?

Chapter 2
: Her Majesty :
IM SURROUNDED BY shoes There are shiny oxfords and beige stilettos Casual - photo 3
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