title: Serena's Wish: A Story of Hope and Possibility
author: A. Gary Reid
description: Gary Reid was born in 1952 at the Halifax Hospital in Daytona Beach. When he was 10 months old, his parents moved him from Florida to Vermont where he has resided, mostly on the shores of Lake Champlain, ever since. His two sisters were both born in Burlington. He attended the University of Vermont where he enrolled in pre-med and received a B.A. in Zoology. He put himself through college; working at Champlain Valley Fruit Co. for nine years, then IBM as an engineering technician for thirty-three and one third years; retiring in 2012 to pursue other activities. In 1975, he met his future wife, Deborah Lee Jewett. They were married in 1977, and had two children; Michelle and Christopher. Debbie passed in 2001, after a long illness. Garys father passed in 2005; his mother in 2008. Physical activities have been a big part of Garys life. Starting with cross-country and track in high school, he switched to gymnastics in college; competing for 17 years. While studying Tae Kwon Do for 18 years, he attained a 2nd degree black belt and instructed for nine of those years. He has done aerobics, yoga, and tap dance. He has run three half marathons, and competed in four triathlons. He loves to water ski, horseback ride, ice skate, and kayak. While Garys current pastimes include: photography, pigeon racing, and ballroom dance; one of his passions has become writing: journaling, essays and articles on life and loss, and fiction. When his daughter was a young girl, she would often have trouble falling asleep. To help her relax, Gary would tell her stories that he had made upsome stretching over several evenings. As a teenager, Michelle said, Dadyou should write those stories down. On that suggestion, he has written Serenas Wish.
zlib_text: He has a debt to pay…
  Cooper Brock knows Serena Dominguez can ruin him with a snap of her
  delectable fingers, but he won’t give in to her demands easily. Instead, he
  gives Serena his own ultimatum: to confront the smoldering attraction
  between them.
  And she’s ready to collect!
  Serena has spent her life planning the downfall of this man. But when she
  yields to his challenge, Serena is stripped bare by Cooper’s raw passion. As
  he holds her in his arms and whispers her name, Serena realizes she may have
  just fallen in love with her enemy…
  
  Cooper Brock leaned forward and she automatically
  pressed her spine against the ornate wood chair. “Is
  this why you have avoided me all month?” he asked
  in a husky voice. “Because you see me as the
  enemy?”
  “How could I avoid you?” Serena asked irritably. “You were everywhere I
  turned.”
  “You refused every invitation I offered.”
  “You mean every indecent proposal,” she snapped. She sensed the savage
  hunger beneath his veneer of civility, yet the man manage