Out of the Storm
Chapter 1
Camp David, Catoctin Mountain, Maryland
"What are we doing here?" Laurel Stewart asked the man sitting next to her in the sanctuary of the presidential retreat's Evergreen Chapel.
"Praying for peace?" Max Kelly, a reporter from the Boston Globe, suggested.
"Granted, it's an admirable goal, but given that the Weather Service has declared this the hottest summer on record, what made the White House decide that August would be a good time to hold another round of Middle East Road to Peace meetings? Couldn't the State Department find a road map that leads to Maine?"
She slapped at yet another mosquito that had sneaked in through the window screen. "And how come they all invited us here to participate?"
She had to raise her voice to be heard over the huge pipe organ's rendition of "The Song of Peace." According to her program, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin had sung the song with over a hundred thousand people at a peace rally in Tel Aviv minutes before his assassination.
"This from the reporter who's always bitching that we don't get enough access when the president ... read full excerpt from: Stewart Sisters Trilogy #3: Out of the Storm ebook
