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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">The Summer Deal by <a href="https://intothehallofbooks.com/reviews/authors/jill-shalvis/" style="color: #954f72;">Jill Shalvis</a><br>Series: <a href="https://intothehallofbooks.com/reviews/series/wildstone/" style="color: #954f72;">Wildstone #5</a><br>Published by <a href="https://intothehallofbooks.com/reviews/publishers/william-morrow/" style="color: #954f72;">William Morrow</a> on June 2, 2020<br>Source: <a href="https://intothehallofbooks.com/reviews/sources/the-publisher/" style="color: #954f72;">the publisher</a><br><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Summer-Deal-Novel-Wildstone-Book-ebook/dp/B07X7WWTTN/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+summer+deal&qid=1591896414&sr=8-1" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank">Amazon</a>|<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-summer-deal-jill-shalvis/1133319513?ean=9780062897916" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank"> Barnes & Noble</a>|<a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/Summer-Deal-Jill-Shalvis/9780062897916" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank">Book Depository</a><br><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46041445-the-summer-deal" style="color: #954f72;" target="_blank">Goodreads</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">Brynn Turner desperately wishes she had it together, but her personal life is like a ping-pong match that’s left her scared and hurt after so many attempts to get it right. In search of a place to lick her wounds and get a fresh start, she heads back home to Wildstone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">And then there’s Kinsey Davis, who after battling serious health issues her entire twenty-nine years of life, is tired of hoping for . . . well, anything. She's fierce, tough, and she’s keeping more than one bombshell of a secret from Brynn -- her long-time frenemy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">But then Brynn runs into Kinsey's best friend, Eli, renewing her childhood crush. The good news: he’s still easy-going and funny and sexy as hell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">The bad news: when he gets her to agree to a summer-time deal to trust him to do right by her, no matter what, she never dreams it’ll result in finding a piece of herself she didn’t even know was missing. She could have real connections, possibly love, and a future—if she can only learn to let go of the past.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">As the long days of summer wind down, the three of them must discover if forgiveness is enough to grasp the unconditional love that’s right in front of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">From the start, I knew this was going to be another favorite of mine. Jill Shalvis has a knack of capturing the reader’s attention from the start. Like peeling an onion, there was the outer storyline but once you start turning the page, it was like layers of onion was peeling away as well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">As we are introduced to the characters, we begin unraveling their strengths and vulnerabilities. Each chapter is in the POV of one the main characters, Shalvis has a way with words that the characters appear within your mind like they are real and you are part of the conversations and their day to day life. You struggle to determine who you want to chair on, each one has their struggles, fears, and a big heart. In the end, you will cheer them all on, hoping for a happy ending for all of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">Well, that’s all you are going to get from me, you have to pick the book or e-book, whatever your reading preference, to find out how everything turns out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">Brynn Turner had always wanted to be the girl who had her life together, but so far her talents hadn’t led her in that direction—although not for lack of trying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> Mentally recapping the week she’d just endured, she let out a stuttered breath. Okay, so her life skills needed some serious work, but as far as she was concerned, that was Future Brynn’s problem. Present Brynn had other things on her mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> Like surviving the rest of the day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> With that goal in mind, she kept her eyes on the road, and three hours and two 7-Eleven hot dogs after leaving Long Beach in her rearview mirror, she pulled into Wildstone. The place that reinvented itself many times over since it’d been an 1800s California wild, wild West town complete with wooden sidewalks, saloons, haunted silver mines, and a brothel. Sandwiched between the Pacific Ocean and green rolling hills filled with wineries and ranches, Wildstone had once been her favorite place on earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> Parking in the driveway of her childhood home, she took a minute. It’d been a decade since she’d lived here. She’d gone off<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">to attend college and to conquer the world, though only one of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">those things had happened. She’d been back for visits, but even<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">that had been a while. Six months, in fact. She’d stood in this<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> She’d had no idea what she was doing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> Note to self: You still don’t.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> With a sigh, she pulled down her visor and glanced in the mirror, hoping that a miracle had occurred and she’d see the reflection of someone who had their shit together. Her hair was knotted on top of her head with the string tie from her hoodie because she’d lost her scrunchie. She was wearing her old glasses because she’d lost her newer pair. Her face was pale and her eyes were puffy and red from a bad combo of crying and not sleeping. She wore yoga pants that hadn’t seen a yoga class since . . . well, ever, and in spite of being nearly thirty, she had a big, fat zit on her chin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> In short, she looked about as far away from having her shit together as she was from solving world hunger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> Knowing her moms—sweet and loving and nosy as hell—were going to see right through her, she pawed through her purse for a miracle. She found some lip gloss that she also dabbed on each cheek for badly needed color. As a bonus, she found two peanut M&Ms. Couldn’t waste those, could she? She shook her purse looking for more, but nope, she was out of luck.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> With a sigh, she once again met her own gaze in the mirror. “Okay, here’s the drill. You’re okay. You’re good. You’re happy to be home. You’re absolutely not crawling back with your tail between your legs to admit to your moms that they were right about Asshole Ashton.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> Swallowing hard, she got out of her hunk-o-junk and grabbed her duffel bag and purse. She’d barely made it to the porch before the front door was flung open and there stood her moms in the doorway, some deep maternal instinct letting them know their sole offspring was within smothering distance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> Both in their mid-fifties, their similarities stopped there. Olive was pragmatic and stoic, and God help the person who tried to get anything by her. She was perfectly coifed as always, hair cut in a chic bob, pants and blazer fitted, giving her the look of someone who’d just walked out of a Wall Street meeting. In sharp comparison, Raina’s sundress was loose and flowery and flowing, and she wore beads around her neck and wrists that made her jingle pleasantly. She was soft and loving, and quite possibly the kindest soul on earth. And where Olive was economical with her movements, Raina was in constant motion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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CHERYL HOLT introduces her new “Always” series with three stirring novels of passion, drama, and love forevermore…</h3>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif;">I’m
delighted to announce my new <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ALWAYS </i>trilogy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The three novels will be released together on
August 1<sup>st</sup>, so they’ll be available in a few days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The titles are ALWAYS, ALWAYS YOURS, and
ALWAYS MINE.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif;">For
several years now, I’ve been writing linked series, where there is a common
thread that runs through all three novels and that resolves at the end of the
third book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif;">They’re</span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> family dramas with
plenty of passion and emotional upheaval.</span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">This time, there are two common threads.</span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">The first is that the hero and his two little sisters were separated
when they were young children, and they grow up, having forgotten they had
siblings.</span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">When the hero (in Book 1)
finally remembers his long-lost sisters, he resolves to find them and bring
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is a second thread that connects the three heroes through the three
novels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are all famous African
explorers who are British celebrities, renowned for their courage and
daring-do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the story starts, they’ve
suffered a terrible tragedy in Africa that tore their team apart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They’re all grieving and quarreling, and they
have to find a way to restart their lives and become best friends again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , serif;">The
two links wind through the three books, and they resolve at the end of Book
3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They create a fun character arc that
drives the stories to the thrilling conclusion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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three books will be released together on August 1<sup>st</sup>, and they’ll be
available as an e-book or a print book.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I hope you’ll mark your calendars and help me count down the days!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Always
</i>trilogy—coming August 1<sup>st</sup>!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">CHERYL HOLT is a New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon "Top100" bestselling author who has published over fifty novels. Her books have been released to wide acclaim, and she has won or been nominated for many national awards. She is considered to be one of the masters of the romance genre. For many years, she was hailed as "The Queen of Erotic Romance", and she's also revered as "The International Queen of Villains." She is particularly proud to have been named "Best Storyteller of the Year" by the trade magazine Romantic Times BOOK Reviews. She lives and writes in Hollywood, California, and she loves to hear from fans. Visit her website at www.cherylholt.com.</span>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 200%;">CHAPTER ONE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Selby estate, rural England, twenty-four
years later…<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Nell Drummond walked down the pretty lane toward the main road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a beautiful July afternoon, the sky so
blue, the trees so green.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Up ahead, she
could see the sign that indicated the estate entrance, the simple word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">SELBY</i> carved in the wood to announce the
esteemed location.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She was carrying ribbons and a basket of flowers, and she placed the
basket at her feet and surveyed the surrounding posts and fence that she
intended to decorate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back at the manor,
the house was hectic, with the servants in a lather because guests were about
to begin arriving and the final wedding preparations were still being
completed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In two weeks, her dearest friend, Susan Middleton, was marrying Selby
cousin, Percy Blake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nell, Susan, and
Susan’s mother, Florence, had already traveled to the country to participate in
the celebrations that would lead up to the ostentatious event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Susan’s busy father, Albert, wouldn’t appear
until the day of the ceremony, feeling no need to be present during the escalating
mayhem.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nell had to admit he’d been wise to delay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now that she’d discovered how chaotic it
would be, she wished she could have stayed in London until the very last minute
too. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Though she would never confess it aloud, Florence always put people on
edge, and she was being her typical annoying self, irking everyone with her
pompous posturing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With her usual lack
of awareness, didn’t notice she was creating enemies right and left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The groom’s mother, Edwina Blake, was especially aggravated.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The two women had arranged the nuptials, so ultimately, they’d be related
by marriage, but as the years rolled by, Nell couldn’t imagine how they would
ever socialize.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had naught in
common, and Edwina’s dislike of Florence was potent and evident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br></span></div>
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The Blakes had been aristocrats for three centuries, and they were
considered a premier family in the kingdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Selby title, currently held by the groom’s cousin—the famous
explorer and conspicuously absent Nathan Blake—was one of the oldest and most
exalted in the land. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Edwina Blake—as a
member of the lofty group—viewed herself as being very grand, very important,
and she was. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The Middletons were obscenely wealthy due to Albert being a successful
brewer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Florence ceaselessly, but
erroneously believed their money could buy them a position in High Society, but
it never could.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were too ordinary,
their antecedents too low.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Despite how hard Florence tried, she couldn’t purchase the spot she thought
they should occupy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’d hoped to use
their fortune to snag a noble husband for Susan, but she’d had to settle for a
nobleman’s cousin instead.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The groom, Percy Blake—as a grandson of the prior Lord Selby—had very
blue blood, but an empty purse, and Susan’s dowry would fill it to
overflowing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the reason his
mother, Edwina, had sought the match.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Once the vows were spoken, Percy would become very rich.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yet the mothers—Florence and Edwina—were like an explosion waiting to
happen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How would they all survive the
next two weeks without a huge fight breaking out?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If Percy and Susan could reach the altar
without their mothers calling the whole thing off, it would be a miracle.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Nell was a pleasant person, and she couldn’t abide discord or bickering, but
her years of living with the Middletons had honed her skills as a peacemaker.<br>
</div><a href="https://foreverbklover.blogspot.com/2019/07/cheryl-holt-always-series.html#more">Read More »</a>Kat ~ Forever Book Lover ♥http://www.blogger.com/profile/08875330362243831904noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9058196044338872874.post-87761064555362476012018-06-21T06:00:00.000-04:002018-06-21T06:00:01.651-04:00RAINY DAY FRIENDS by Jill Shalvis<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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After a difficult few years, Tilly Adams is ready for life to start going right. Though she has a case of first day nerves teaching art at the local community college, she knows it isn’t anything a few snuggles from her rescue puppy won’t cure. Until she sees Dylan Scott again, her one-time BFF and first love sitting in the front row.<br />
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When Tilly agrees to design the logo for Dylan’s new helicopter touring company, it’s business only…until she finds herself falling into his arms once again. Can she possibly open her heart back up to the only man who’s ever broken it? But soon they’re both realizing the truth — love always deserves a second chance.<br />
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No one drives in New York City. Everyone knows that, including California transplant Rachel Price. But that doesn’t stop her from driving into the city. From Connecticut. Every single morning. Rain or shine…or snow.<br />
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When she runs the charismatic and good-looking Jason Fairchild off the road, their immediate spark is met with bad timing. There is also one tiny little detail: Jason is her boss. And a woman as intelligent and dedicated to her career as Rachel knows not to date her boss.<br />
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As CEO of a private jet company, Jason Fairchild is more used to flying than driving. But if he hadn’t chosen to drive home one night, he wouldn’t have met the slowest—and most irresistible—driver in the entire metro area. Jason has never had time for love. Or dating. Or really anything that doesn’t involve work. But when he finds out that Rachel is the newest superstar in his marketing department, he can’t help wondering if fate has other plans…<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Message From Catherine Bybee</span></b><br />
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<i>In Not Quite Crazy, California transplant, Rachel Price, doesn’t understand the ramifications of driving into Manhattan from Connecticut every day; in every type of weather…especially snow. When she runs the charming Jason Fairchild off the road, sparks fly. Too bad Jason is her new boss and dating him is out of the question. Everyone knows it’s occupational suicide to date your boss. <br /><br />Determined to keep her distance romantically, the two dive into a friendship. It isn’t long before those sparks ignite and neither one of them can deny their attraction. Throw in a teenage ward that Rachel has taken on after the death of her best friend, and biological grandparents that seek custody; and this heart warming love story is bound to whisk you away. <br /><br />While I was writing Not Quite Crazy I took an impromptu trip to Manhattan last March. I purposely chose a winter month where I might be able to absorb what it felt like to be in the city when snow covered the ground. That might sound silly for those of you who live in the city, but for me, a woman who has lived in Southern California since she was eighteen years old, I had no idea just how snow impacts day to day life. <br /><br />On the drive in from the airport, I was immediately struck by the bikes chained to posts and buried by snow. I observed a man digging his car out and effectively covering his neighbor’s car in the process. The plows did a great job of clearing the path for those cars actually moving, but did an equally fantastic job of making sure some vehicles couldn’t move for days. Trash piled up on the sidewalks would have to wait to be picked up until the thaw. It was astonishing to see. But the best experience for me, and one that made it into the pages of Not Quite Crazy, came when I took my first ride on the subway. You see, I was on my way uptown, from downtown to meet with my agent. Keep in mind, Manhattan is only five miles long. But it was St. Patrick’s Day and I completely forgot about the parade. I ordered an Uber, as one does, and sat bumper to bumper for nearly two hours. After arriving extremely late to my lunch, my wise and savvy agent gave me the instructions I needed to ride the subway back to my downtown hotel. I’m a grown woman, riding a subway shouldn’t intimidate me… but if I were honest, it did. So, with my purse strapped to my shoulder and zipped on the inside of my jacket, and my eyes wide open, I crowded into the underground train along with just about everyone else in the city. Street performers jumped onto the car and started singing for change. Tourists chatted enthusiastically while locals looked bored with the whole process. <br /><br />Rachel, my heroine in Not Quite Crazy is an extension of everyone I know that has lived in California. Here on the west coast we all have cars. We’re in them all the time. Public transportation is a joke when the distance between downtown LA and Orange County is so far away. The concept of always relying on public transportation to get to work every single day isn’t something most Southern Californian’s do. So when Rachel showed up on the page, I made sure she personified my own stubbornness about independently driving to and from wherever she needed to go. Even if it takes her two hours more than it should. <br /><br />I hope you all enjoy this final chapter in the Not Quite Series and find room on your keeper shelf for Not Quite Crazy. <br /><br />Cheers, <br /><br />Catherine </i><br />
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Rachel found the stack of mail on the dining room table. She fingered through a few bills and tossed the junk to the side to add to the recycle bin. The box Owen had spoken of didn’t have a mailing label. In fact, all that was written on the plain brown box was her name, her first name. <br />
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She peeled away the tape, not knowing what to expect. Once she folded the lid back, she saw a handwritten envelope on top of a white canvas bag. It took a little effort to lift the noisy bag from the box—the sound of metal hitting metal struck her as odd.<br />
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Chains. <br />
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Chains for the tires on her car.<br />
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“Who…?” <br />
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She opened the note and a second paper fell out. <br />
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Thank you for braving this stranger in a storm and keeping me from frostbite. Welcome to Connecticut.<br />
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Below his name was a phone number<br />
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Something inside her stomach flipped, the buzz a teenage girl feels when she notices a popular boy watching her from the other side of the classroom. Or maybe she was reading into it. Maybe this was just a thank-you, a friendly gesture from a grateful, stranded traveler. <br />
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Her cheeks warmed. <br />
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Assuming he gave her a mobile number, Rachel decided to send a text. <br />
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Hello Jason. I received your gift. They were incredibly thoughtful. Thank you. <br />
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She read her note over, twice, then pressed “Send.” Off it went, in wherever notes went as they traveled faster than Superman in cyberspace. <br />
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The phone in her hand buzzed, reminding her she was holding it. <br />
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Is this Rachel? <br />
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She grinned. <br />
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Do you leave gifts on everyone’s doorstep in town? <br />
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Dot. Dot. Dot. It is nearly Christmas. <br />
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Was he flirting? It had been some time since she’d sent a text to anyone outside of the friend zone, so she couldn’t tell. <br />
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So you double as Connecticut’s Santa Claus?<br />
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Shhh. Don’t tell anyone. It’s a secret. <br />
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Well, he wasn’t not flirting. <br />
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I’ll keep my mouth closed on one condition. <br />
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Oh? What’s that? <br />
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I want to meet Vixen. She’s always been my favorite. <br />
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I thought Vixen was a he. <br />
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She giggled. <br />
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A boy named Vixen. That’s just cruel. Good point. I’ll see what I can do. The team is on a strict curfew until after the holiday. <br />
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When Catherine Bybee fell in love with the first romance novel she ever read, she promised herself <br />
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she would one day become a published author. Now she’s written twenty-seven books that have collectively sold more than four million copies and have been translated into more than eighteen languages. Along with her popular Not Quite series, she has also penned the Weekday Brides series, the Most Likely To series, and the First Wives series.<br />
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Charlotte Bailey needs a miracle. She came to this sleepy little Colorado town to keep the local hospital afloat, but now her scrooge of a boss is demanding she close it down. Charlotte is going to need all the help she can get, even from Dr. McSexy--er, Dr. Matt Trainer--if she's to save Christmas before, well, Christmas!<br />
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All Matt wants for Christmas is for Charlotte to give it--and him--half a chance. But with the town looking to him to save the hospital and Charlotte itching to get back to New York in time to see the city decked out in lights, Matt doesn't have much time to make things right. But he's got faith--after all, miracles happen every day in Christmas.<br />
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<script async="" id="vsscript_22680_575088" src="https://app.viralsweep.com/vsa-widget-89e11e-22680.js?sid=22680_575088" type="text/javascript"></script>Kat ~ Forever Book Lover ♥http://www.blogger.com/profile/08875330362243831904noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9058196044338872874.post-55498950862437426632017-10-31T06:30:00.000-04:002017-11-08T10:06:18.005-05:00Release Day - THE SCOT'S BRIDE by Paula Quinn<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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Heirs, #6<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #eeeeee;">AN IRRESISTIBLE SCOUNDREL</span></b><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">Highlander Patrick MacGregor likes his life just the way it is. Fighting for
his coin, enjoying a woman's charms, and bearing no responsibility at all? Aye,
that's the life for him. That is, until Patrick sees her-a raven-haired beauty
with eyes as dark as midnight. Patrick swore never to fall in love. Not even
with a lass as wild as he...especially when she's from a rival clan.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #eeeeee;">AN UNDENIABLE DESIRE</span></b><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;">Charlotte Cunningham knows Patrick is trouble the moment she sets eyes on him.
Her only goal is to escape the possibility of marriage. <i>Any</i> marriage.
But as the summer days turn into sultry nights, enticing her beyond reason,
Charlie is forced to choose between the freedom she craves and the reckless
rogue she can't forget.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><b>by Jennifer Snow<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><b>On Sale: September 26, 2017<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">All wrapped up . . . </span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">One more game.</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> That's all that stands between NHL star Asher Westmore and a major
career milestone. But then his brother bashes him against the hockey boards,
sidelining him for months. Over Christmas holidays, no less. If staying off the
ice doesn't drive him crazy, staying with his family will. The only bright spot
amidst the mistletoe and twinkle lights: His best friend, Emma, is a physical
therapist. And working out with her improves his body <i>and</i> his spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">One last time.</span></i><span style="font-family: "calibri"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Emma Callaway was in trouble the minute she and Asher added benefits to
their friendship. How is she supposed to resist a funny, caring guy who makes
her toes curl? Her heart was safe while he lived in a different state. Now that
he's back home recuperating, though, it's only a matter of time before she
blurts out her feelings. Emma's only hope is that with a little holiday magic,
she'll get the best Christmas gift of all.</span></div>
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Asher climbed out of the car. “Nah. I’ll hang out with Em tonight.
I’m her last patient of the day,” he said, suddenly feeling a little better and
eager to get this appointment finished so they could go back to her place for
the evening. Without the meds, he was suffering a little more, and she was the
only thing that eased his pain.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“All
right, man. Take it easy,” Jackson said as he closed the door.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Entering
the clinic, he tugged the big, heavy old door closed behind him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Hey,
Asher,” Jane said, standing as she saw him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Hi,
Jane. How are you?” he asked, approaching the desk and leaning over it. If he
sat again, getting up would be a struggle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I’m
great. Um, actually, I wanted to ask you…if maybe you wanted to grab a drink at
the Grumpy Stump tonight?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Caught
slightly off guard, he laughed. “You don’t hang out there, do you? You’re far
too pretty to be slobbered on by all the local single men.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">She
blushed. “Thanks. Actually, I don’t hang out anywhere. Single-mom life doesn’t
lend itself it to many dates. Not that this would be a date…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Oh,
damn. He felt like an ass saying no to the woman who was obviously putting
herself out there…but he wasn’t interested in dating. In fact, since his last
semi-permanent situation ended a while ago, he’d been enjoying how things were
going with Emma. Right now, she was certainly the only one he wanted to be
with. “I…uh…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Emma
appeared in the reception area, an unreadable expression on her face as she
glanced back and forth between the two of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Well,
the thing is…I promised Emma I’d do that…thing with her tonight,” he said, looking
at her to save him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Her
expression softened slightly as she slowly nodded. “Right, you did promise me
you would do that…thing tonight.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">He
smiled. Saved. Now he could resume getting excited about a full evening with
her, naked, with no pressure of a flight out the next day or having to be
anywhere at all. The idea excited him beyond the sexy thoughts coming to mind.
He looked forward to just being with her, holding her, kissing her, and
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Um…maybe
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husband and son. She writes sweet and sexy contemporary romance stories set
everywhere from small towns to big cities. After stating in her high school
yearbook bio that she wanted to be an author, she set off on the winding,
twisting road to make her dream a reality. She is a member of RWA, the Writers'
Guild of Alberta, the Canadian Authors Association, and the Film and Visual
Arts Association in Edmonton. She has published over ten novels and novellas
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<b><span style="color: #ea9999;">FBL ♥ : Is anything in your book based on real life experiences or purely all imagination?</span></b><br />
Almost all of my books come from the imagination, with one exception. My settings, although fictional, are based on real places. Shenandoah Falls is a fictionalized, and somewhat larger, version of a town named Berryville in Virginia. I’ve never lived in Berryville, although one of my friends lived there for a while. And Shenandoah Falls isn’t exactly in the same place as Berryville. It’s east of the Shenandoah River. There are also some external plot developments in some of the stories that come from newspaper accounts that spark my imagination.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #ea9999;">F</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">BL ♥: If you were told that Here Comes the Bride was to become a movie, which actor and actress do you see in the lead roles? Supporting characters?</span></b></div>
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I think James Marsden (if he put on a pair of brown contact lenses) would capture Andrew Lyndon perfectly. He’s got that square jaw and killer cheekbone thing going for him. Laurie Wilson is definitely Poppy Montgomery. As for some of the supporting characters: Courtney Wallace, the wedding planner, is Zoey Deschanel, and Matt Lyndon, the hero’s cousin is a young Colin Farrill. Ryan Pierce, the local cop, looks like the first baseman of the Washington Nationals, Ryan Zimmerman. I’ve heard Ryan Zimmerman do commercials on local TV. He’s not much of an actor, although he’s a heck of a first baseman. So he’d be terrible delivering lines in a movie. But he’d look great!</div>
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Six years ago, a childish prank perpetrated by the reckless Quinton Carlisle
ruined Annabelle Greene's reputation and any chance she had at securing a
successful marriage. Incensed, she moved to her beloved estate on the
Scottish border and has reveled in the solitude...until now when the contents
of a family will are revealed. Suddenly, Belle's single status may cost
her the only home she's ever known. Now, with her only marital prospect a
horribly greedy and completely undesirable man, Belle knows just the person to
rescue her-the one person who owes her for his bad behavior...<br />
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There's nothing Quinn Carlisle wants more than to get out from his older
brother's shadow and make a name for himself abroad. So when a mysterious
letter arrives, promising adventure, he rushes to the Scottish border...only to
find that Belle laid a trap for him. The awkward, shy bluestocking whom
he so enjoyed tormenting is gone, replaced by a graceful, elegant woman who
ignites a desire in him he can't resist. Can Quinn help her save her
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<b><span style="color: #ffd966;">FBL ♥: Do you write detailed character profiles before writing, or do you find the characters come to life as you write?</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> I don’t do detailed profiles as such, but I do have a pretty good overall idea of the characters before I start writing. I’ll know hair and eye color for the physical traits, and I’ll have very detailed motivations for them stemming from their backstory. But I usually let the rest come naturally as the book unfolds, then go back and layer in the specific details once the first draft is finished. Characters seem to reveal themselves to me more once I know the settings in which they’ll move and the emotions that grip them.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #ffd966;">FBL ♥: What do you like better: when you’ve just started writing a book or when you’ve just finished one, and why?</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #ffd966;">FBL ♥ : Is anything in your book based on real life experiences or purely all imagination?</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">For once, none of the events or characters are based on real life. BUT in the library scene, there’s a very personal description of why Belle loves books, and *that* came straight from my own heart: “She loved books. Oh, how could anyone not? The way they smelled of pulp and rainy afternoons, the soft scratch of the paper beneath her fingertip as she turned the pages, all the wonderful knowledge and adventures held within their covers just waiting to be discovered—she loved everything about them. But most of all, she loved the way they had always brought her comfort. Given the choice between sneaking off to read a book, where she could let her imagination run wild and believe anything was possible, and being forced to be polite even as people cut her directly to her face, well, she’d gladly choose a book any day.”</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #ffd966;">FBL ♥: What books are on your nightstand, waiting to be read?</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Too many! If the stack ever falls over, I might never be found!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 12pt;">J</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Right now, I’m reading His Ballerina Bride by Teri Wilson and set to read Georgian London: Into the Streets, The Lady Meets Her Match by Gina Conkle, and Calling It by Jen Doyle (on my ereader).</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #ffd966;">FBL ♥: If When The Scoundrel Sins had a theme song, what would it be? </span></b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">That’s an easy one. “Home” by Phillip Phillips… “Settle down, it'll all be clear / Don't pay no mind to the demons / They fill you with fear / The trouble it might drag you down / If you get lost, you can always be found / Just know you’re not alone / 'Cause I’m going to make this place your home.” The entire book is about the importance of home, of having that one place where you feel safe and loved, and the joy of finding it with the one you love.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">My new FOREVER series is coming on July 15</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 8.399999618530273px; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. The first three books will be released together on July 15, so readers can enjoy the stories without waiting to learn what happens next.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The novels tell the stories of the Henley sisters. Their father was an earl, but he died in an accident and distant relatives inherited. As you can imagine, their lives fell down hill very quickly, and they work in London to earn their livings.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">If you haven’t read one of my books before (or if you have!), I hope you’ll give them a try. I’m known for my alpha, macho heroes, for my plot twists and turns, for my drama and action, and most especially for my fast, fun dialogue. My books are serious entertainment, and they’re so fun to read!</span></div>
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<b>FOREVER YOURS</b><br />
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CHERYL HOLT introduces her new “FOREVER” series with four stirring novels of passion, drama, and love forevermore…<br />
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Abigail Henley is an earl’s daughter, raised to a life of wealth and privilege. But all was lost when her parents died in an accident and distant relatives inherited. With no prospects and her dowry squandered, she’s forced to work as a governess, caring for the children of the rich and notorious. She’s lonely, chafing at the unfairness of her situation, and wishing she could change her fate—or at least regain some of the status and position she once had.<br />
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Alex Wallace was ruined by scandal. With his being from a prominent military family, he expected to have a long and successful career in the army. Instead, he’s a scorned, dissolute, and divorced man who was forced to resign his commission and is raising two daughters who were sired by another man. He’s weary of gossip and innuendo, and he leads a reckless life, trying to prove he doesn’t care about anything.<br />
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CATHERINE HENLEY was raised as the rich, spoiled daughter of the Earl of Middlebury. But when tragedy struck and distant relatives inherited the family estate, she was cast out into the world and forced to make her own way. She works as a lady’s companion, assisting and chaperoning various young ladies who are engaged to be married. She watches as they march through the swirl of parties and balls leading up to their grand day. Always she laments the fact that she will never be a bride herself…<br />
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CHRISTOPHER WAKEFIELD spent fifteen years in the army, but with his older brother’s death, he’s inherited his family’s bankrupt estate. He resigns his commission and returns to England where he quickly realizes he must marry an heiress to save his home. He agrees to wed his rich, unpleasant cousin, but when he meets poverty-stricken Catherine, he begins to wonder how he can do his duty to his family…</div>
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SARAH HENLEY grew up as the rich, cosseted daughter of an earl, but when her father died and distant relatives inherited, she fell down society’s ladder. To earn a living, she’s working as a lady’s companion and, with no dowry or prospects, she’s given up hope of ever marrying. But when a dashing, dangerous rogue crosses her path, she starts to wonder if her fate might have changed…<br />
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NICHOLAS SWIFT is a gambler and wastrel who has always had to scheme and deceive others in order to get by. He’s perfected a life of pretense and trickery that lets him thrive among the snobs of High Society. When he meets beautiful, lonely Sarah, he can’t help but be intrigued, but he could never be interested in a penniless female…<br />
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Cheryl Holt is a New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon “Top 100” bestselling author of forty-seven novels.<br />
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She’s also a lawyer and mom, and at age 40, with two babies at home, she started a new career as a commercial fiction writer. She’d hoped to be a suspense novelist, but couldn’t sell any of her manuscripts, so she ended up taking a detour into romance, where she was stunned to discover that she has an incredible knack for writing some of the world’s greatest love stories.<br />
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She is considered to be one of the masters of the romance genre, and her emotional, dramatic, and riveting stories of passion and illicit love have captivated fans around the world. She has won or been nominated for many national awards. For many years, she was hailed as “The Queen of Erotic Romance”, and she’s also revered as “The International Queen of Villains.” She is particularly proud to have been named “Best Storyteller of the Year” by the trade magazine Romantic Times BOOK Reviews.<br />
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<span style="line-height: 21.6px;">Because I write </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">a </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">series, my characters have typically shown up in previous books before they get their</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> own</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> story, so I know them pretty well and they feel real </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">to</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> me. Though they still manage to surprise me when I’m writing their </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">stories</span><span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.6px;">. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 21.6px;"></span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">It’s tough to choose. I love at the</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> very beginning</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> of a book</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> when I’m </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">brainstorming </span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">the story.</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> It’s a bright and shiny idea</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;"> then without any of the hard work and angst of getting the story on the page. I also love the sense of accomplishment I feel at the moment I write </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.6px;">the end</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.6px;">I actually have a theme song for every book. For </span><span class="s3" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 21.6px;">Primrose Lane</span><span style="line-height: 21.6px;">, it’s “Stand by You” by Rachel Platten.</span><br />
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<span class="s14" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Years ago, the Duke of Greyland gave his heart—and a princely sum of money—to a charming, destitute widow with unparalleled beauty. But after one passionate night, she slipped from his bed and vanished without a trace. And just when he’s given up hope of ever seeing her again, Greyland finds her managing a gaming hell. He’s desperate to have her… until he discovers everything about his long-lost lover was a lie.</span></div>
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<span class="s14" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">In truth, Cassandra Blake grew up on the streets, picking pockets to survive. Greyland was a mark—to be fleeced and forgotten—but her feelings for the duke became all too real. Once he learns of her deception, however, the heat in his eyes turns to ice. When her business partner absconds with the gaming hell proceeds—leaving unsavory investors out for blood—Cassandra must beg the man she betrayed for help.</span></div>
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<span class="s14" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">It was a very pleasant laugh, low and musical rather than shrill and forced, yet it sounded like The Lost Queen’s laugh. Alex could not resist the urge to glance over his shoulder as he left the Eagle chophouse. He’d fancifully taken to calling her The Lost Queen, though she was most assuredly a mortal woman. Had she somehow appeared on a busy London street at dusk? The last time he’d seen her had been two years ago, in the spa town of Cheltenham, in his bed, asleep and naked.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s14" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">The trouble with being a duke was that he </span><span class="s13" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">always </span><span class="s14" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">had to do his duty. “You are the pinnacle of British Society,” his father had often said to him. “The world looks to </span><span class="s13" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">you </span><span class="s14" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">for guidance. So you must lead by example. Be their True North.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s14" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">This evening, before dining, Alex had taken a very conspicuous turn up and down Bond Street, making certain that he was seen by many consequential—and loose-lipped— figures in the </span><span class="s13" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">ton</span><span class="s14" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">. Word would soon spread that the Duke of Greyland was not holed up, sulking in seclusion. His honor as one of Society’s bulwarks would not be felled by something as insignificant as his failed marriage suit to Lady Emmeline Birks. The Dukes of Greyland had stood strong against Roundheads, Jacobites, and countless other threats against Britain. One girl barely out of the schoolroom could hardly damage Alex’s ducal armor.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s14" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">But that armor had been dented by The Lost Queen. Far deeper than he would have expected.</span></div>
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<span class="s14" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Standing on the curb, he signaled for his carriage, which pulled out of the mews. He tugged on his spotless gloves as he waited and adjusted the brim of his black beaver hat to make certain it sat properly on his head. “Always maintain a faultless appearance,” his father had reminded him again and again. “The slightest bit of disorder in your dress can lead to rampant speculation about the stability of your affairs. This, we cannot tolerate. The nation demands nothing less than perfection.”</span></div>
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<span class="s14" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Alex’s father had been dead for ten years, but that didn’t keep the serious, sober man’s voice from his mind. It was part of him now—his role as one of the most powerful men in England and the responsibilities that role carried with it. Not once did he ever let frivolities distract him from his duties.</span></div>
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<span class="s14" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Forcing the thought from his mind, Alex looked impatiently for his carriage. Just as the vehicle pulled up, however, two men appeared and grabbed his arms on each side.</span></div>
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<span class="s14" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Alex stiffened—he did not care for being touched without giving someone express permission to do so. People on the street also did not normally seize each other. Was it a robbery? A kidnapping attempt? His hands curled instinctively into fists, ready to give his accosters a beating.</span></div>
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<span class="s14" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“What’s this?” one of the younger men exclaimed with mock horror. “Have I grabbed hold of a thundercloud?”</span></div>
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<span class="s14" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“Don’t know about you,” the other man said drily, “but I seem to have attached myself to an enormous bar of iron. How else to explain its inflexibility?” He tried to shake Alex, to little avail. When he wanted to be, Alex was absolutely immovable.</span></div>
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<span class="s14" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Alex’s fingers loosened. He tugged his arms free and growled, “That’s enough, you donkeys.”</span></div>
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<span class="s14" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Thomas Powell, the Earl of Langdon and heir to the Duke of Northfield, grinned, a flash of white in his slightly unshaven face. “Come now, Greyland,” he chided. A hint of an Irish accent made his voice musical, evidence of Langdon’s early years spent in his mother’s native County Kerry. “Is that any way to speak to your oldest and dearest friends?”</span></div>
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<span class="s14" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“I’ll let you know when they get here.” Alex scowled at Langdon, then at Christopher Ellingsworth, who only smirked in response.</span></div>
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<span class="s14" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Alex took a step toward his carriage, but Ellingsworth deftly moved to block his path, displaying the speed and skill that had served him well when he’d fought on the Peninsula.</span></div>
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<span class="s14" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“Where are you running off to with such indecorous haste?” Ellingsworth pressed. He held up a finger. “Ah, never tell me. You’re running back to the shelter of your Mayfair cave, to growl and brood like some big black bear in a cravat.”</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s14" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“You know nothing,” Alex returned, despite the fact that Ellingsworth had outlined his exact plans for the rest of the night.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s14" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Ellingsworth looked at Langdon with exaggerated pity. “Poor chap. The young Lady Emmeline has utterly shattered his heart.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s14" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Alex shouldered past Ellingsworth, only to have Langdon move to stand in his way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s14" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“My heart is not </span><span class="s13" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">shattered </span><span class="s14" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">because of Lady Emmeline,” Alex snapped. At least that much was the truth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s14" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“But why shouldn’t your heart be strewn in pieces throughout Regent’s Park?” Langdon mused. “You courted the young lady for several months, and you told Ellingsworth and I that you’d already received her father’s grateful acceptance of a marriage offer.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s14" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“She never agreed to anything,” Alex said flatly.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s14" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“A modest girl, that Lady Emmeline.” Ellingsworth nodded with approval. “She wouldn’t have said yes right away. They never do. Nothing to be alarmed by.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s14" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“How would you know?” Alex’s voice was edged. Ellingsworth had little experience with offering for ladies’ hands, committed as he was to a life of reckless pleasure.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s14" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Langdon added, “It’d be unseemly for an earl’s daughter to eagerly snap up a marriage proposal the moment it was offered.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s14" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Alex scowled. Despite the fact that, at thirty-eight, he was sixteen years her senior, they would suit well as a wedded couple. Lady Emmeline had been perfectly trained in the responsibilities of an aristocratic wife. Though he wished she stated her own opinion rather than constantly agreeing with him, there were worse faults one could find in a prospective bride.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s14" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">They could marry at Christmas, eight months from now. It would be a small but elegant wedding, followed by a lavish breakfast and a wedding journey in the Lake District. And then, if everything went well, in less than a year, Alex and Lady Emmeline might welcome their first child—hopefully a boy so the line would be secure. It would’ve been precisely the sort of match Alex’s</span></span></div>
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<span class="s14" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">father would have approved, considering Lady Emmeline’s faultless background and her spotless reputation.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s14" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“Look at him now, mooning away,” Langdon sighed, smugly thwarting Alex’s attempts to step around him. “He looks poorly.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s14" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">It would be bad form to knock his friend to the ground. Damn the social niceties that dictated a man couldn’t punch another without repercussions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s14" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“Perhaps he should be bled,” Ellingsworth suggested with his habitual smirk. It was his constant companion since returning from the War, as if he refused to take anything seriously.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s14" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“I am perfectly well.” Alex looked back and forth between these two rogues whom he called friends. “No need to call for a quack.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s14" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“He’s already had an amputation,” Langdon noted, raising a brow as he always did. “One prospective bride—gone.” He made a sawing motion at his ankle, as if cutting the shackles of matrimony.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s14" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Alex glanced down at his own lower leg, as if he could see the invisible links that might have bound him to Lady Emmeline. He’d come so close to becoming a married man and sharing the rest of his life with one woman—the faultless duke his father had bred him to be. It hardly mattered that Alex felt nothing for the gel other than a sense of distant respect. She would have made a fine duchess.</span></div>
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<span class="s14" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“We were at White’s yesterday when we heard about what happened,” Langdon said with disapproval. “Didn’t even tell your two closest friends that Lady Emmeline had run off with a cavalry officer. No, we had to hear it from Lord Ruthven, of all people.”</span></div>
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Eva puts a different spin on the tried on true historical romance novels. This story had more of a contemporary romance feel to it. Once I started the book I couldn't put it down, it was that addictive.I love books that draw me in within the first few pages. The characters were well developed. The main characters may not have started out on the path to HEA, but through the ups and down true love prevails. I found myself laughing out loud with the banter between the characters. For readers who enjoy historical romances with a bit of a twist, this book will be one you want in your to be read pile. I look forward to the next story in this series.
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-style: italic;"><b>The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband</b></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><span class="s8" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">By: </span><span class="s8" style="line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Julia Quinn</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 12px;">With her brother Thomas injured on the battlefront in the Colonies, orphaned Cecilia Harcourt has two unbearable choices: move in with a maiden aunt or marry a scheming cousin. Instead, she chooses option three and travels across the Atlantic, determined to nurse her brother back to health. But after a week of searching, she finds not her brother but his best friend, the handsome officer Edward Rokesby. He's unconscious and in desperate need of her care, and Cecilia vows that she will save this soldier's life, even if staying by his side means telling one little lie...</span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 12px;">When Edward comes to, he's more than a little confused. The blow to his head knocked out six months of his memory, but surely he would recall getting married. He knows who Cecilia Harcourt is—even if he does not recall her face—and with everyone calling her his wife, he decides it must be true, even though he'd always assumed he'd marry his neighbor back in England.</span></div>
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<span class="s12" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-weight: bold; line-height: 12px;">If only it were true... </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s13" style="line-height: 12px;">Cecilia risks her entire future by giving herself—completely—to the man she loves. But when the truth comes out, Edward may have a few surprises of his own for the new Mrs. Rokesby.</span><span class="s13" style="line-height: 12px;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">His head hurt.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Correction, his head </span><span class="s24" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">really</span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> hurt.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">It was hard to tell, though, just what sort of pain it was. He </span><span class="s24" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">might</span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> have been shot through the head with a musket ball. That seemed plausible, given his current location in New York (or was it Connecticut?) and his current occupation as a captain in His Majesty’s army. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">There was a war going on, in case one hadn’t noticed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">But this particular pounding—the one that felt more like someone was bashing his skull with a cannon (not a cannon</span><span class="s24" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">ball</span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">, mind you, but an actual cannon) seemed to indicate that he had been attacked with a blunter instrument than a bullet. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">An anvil, perhaps. Dropped from a second-story window.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">But if one cared to look on the bright side, a pain such as this did seem to indicate that he wasn’t dead, which was also a plausible fate, given all the same facts that had led him to believe he might have been shot.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">That war he’d mentioned... people did die.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">With alarming regularity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">So he wasn’t dead. That was good. But he also wasn’t sure where he was, precisely. The obvious next step would be to open his eyes, but his eyelids were translucent enough for him to realize that it was the middle of the day, and while he did like to look on the metaphorical bright side, he was fairly certain that the literal one would prove blinding.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Most of the voices were male, but there was at least one lady nearby. She was close enough that he could hear her breathing. She made little noises as she went about her business, which he soon realized included tucking blankets around him and touching his forehead with the back of her hand.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">He knew that smell. He’d worn it himself, albeit usually only briefly until it turned into a full-fledged stink.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">On her, though, it was more than pleasant. Perhaps a little earthy. And he wondered who she was, to be tending to him so diligently.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“How is he today?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Edward held himself still. This male voice was new, and he wasn’t sure he wanted anyone to know he was awake yet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Although he wasn’t sure </span><span class="s24" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">why</span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> he felt this hesitancy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“A week, sir. Four days before I arrived, and three since.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">No, maybe it was only February. And this was probably New York, not Connecticut.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">But that still didn’t explain why his head hurt so bloody much. Clearly he’d been in some sort of an accident. Or had he been attacked? </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“There has been no change at all?” the man asked, even though the lady had just said as much.</span></span></div>
<div class="s11" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">But she must have had far more patience than Edward, because she replied in a quiet, clear voice, “No, sir. None.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">The man made a noise that wasn’t quite a grunt. Edward found it impossible to interpret.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“Er...” The woman cleared her throat. “Have you any news of my brother?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Her brother? Who was her brother?</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“I am afraid not, Mrs. Rokesby.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s24" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Mrs. Rokesby?</span></span></div>
<div class="s11" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“It has been nearly two months,” she said quietly. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s24" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Mrs. Rokesby</span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">? Edward really wanted them to get back to that point. There was only one Rokesby in North America as far as he knew, and that was him. So if she was Mrs. Rokesby...</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“I think,” the male voice said, “that your energies would be better spent tending to your husband.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s24" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Husband</span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">?</span></span></div>
<div class="s11" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“I assure you,” she said, and there was that touch of irritation again, “that I have been caring for him most faithfully.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Husband? They were calling him her </span><span class="s24" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">husband</span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">? Was he married? He couldn’t be married. How could he be married and not remember it?</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s24" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Who was this woman?</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Edward’s heart began to pound. What the devil was happening to him?</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“Did he just make a noise?” the man asked.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“I... I don’t think so.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">She moved then, quickly. Hands touched him, his cheek, then his chest, and even through her obvious concern, there was something soothing in her motions, something undeniably right.</span></span></div>
<div class="s11" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“Edward?” she asked, taking his hand. She stroked it several times, her fingers brushing lightly over his skin. “Can you hear me?”</span></span></div>
<div class="s11" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">He ought to respond. She was worried. What kind of gentleman did not act to relieve a lady’s distress?</span></span></div>
<div class="s11" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“I fear he may be lost to us,” the man said, with far less gentleness than Edward thought appropriate.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“He still breathes,” the woman said in a steely voice. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">The man said nothing, but his expression must have been one of pity, because she said it again, more loudly this time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“</span><span class="s24" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">He still breathes</span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“Mrs. Rokesby...”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Edward felt her hand tighten around his. Then she placed her other on top, her fingers resting lightly on his knuckles. It was the smallest sort of embrace, but Edward felt it down to his soul.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“He still breathes, Colonel,” she said with quiet resolve. “And while he does, I will be here. I may not be able to help Thomas, but—”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s24" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Thomas</span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">. Thomas Harcourt. </span><span class="s24" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">That</span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> was the connection. This must be his sister. Cecilia. He knew her well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Or not. He’d never actually met the lady, he </span><span class="s24" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">felt</span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> like he knew her. She wrote to her brother with a diligence that was unmatched in the regiment. Thomas received twice as much mail as Edward, and Edward had four siblings to Thomas’s one.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Cecilia Harcourt. What on earth was she doing in North America? She was supposed to be in Derbyshire, in that little town Thomas had been so eager to leave. The one with the hot springs. Matlock. No, Matlock Bath.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Edward had never been, but he thought it sounded charming. Not the way Thomas described it, of course; he liked the bustle of city life and couldn’t wait to take a commission and depart his village. But Cecilia was different. In her letters, the small Derbyshire town came alive, and Edward almost felt that he would recognize her neighbors if he ever went to visit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">She was witty. Lord, she was witty. Thomas used to laugh so much at her missives that Edward finally made him read them out loud. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Then one day, when Thomas was penning his response, Edward interrupted so many times that Thomas finally shoved out his chair and held forth his quill.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“You write to her,” he’d said.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">So he did.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Not on his own, of course. Edward could never have written to her directly. It would have been the worst sort of impropriety, and he would not have insulted her in such a manner. But he took to scribbling a few lines at the end of Thomas’s letters, and whenever she replied, she had a few lines for him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Thomas carried a miniature of her, and even though he said it was several years old, Edward had found himself staring at it, studying the small portrait of the young woman, wondering if her hair really was that remarkable golden color, or if she really did smile that way, lips closed and mysterious.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Somehow he thought not. She did not strike him as a woman with secrets. Her smile would be sunny and free. Edward had even thought he’d like to meet her once this godforsaken war was over. He’d never said anything to Thomas, though. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">That would have been strange.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Now Cecilia was here. In the colonies. Which made absolutely no sense, but then again, what did? Edward’s head was injured, and Thomas seemed to be missing, and...</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Edward thought hard.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">...and he seemed to have married Cecilia Harcourt.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">He opened his eyes and tried to focus on the green-eyed woman peering down at him.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; padding-left: 36px;"></span><span class="s16" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“Cecilia?”</span></span></div>
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L<b>ADY + DUKE = TRUE LOVE?</b></div>
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Lady Daphne Forsyth is a brilliant mathematician with a burning passion for puzzles. When she learns that the library belonging to her benefactress houses the legendary Cameron Cipher—an encrypted message that, once solved, holds the key to great riches—Daphne is on the case. Unfortunately, her race to unlock the cipher’s code is continually thwarted by a deliciously handsome distraction she hadn’t counted on . . . and cannot resist.</div>
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Dalton Beauchamp, the Duke of Maitland, is curious as to why Daphne is spending so much time snooping around his aunt’s bookshelves. He’s even more intrigued by her bold yet calculating manner: She is unapologetic about her secret quest . . . and the fiery attraction that develops between them both. But how can they concentrate on solving a perplexing enigma once the prospect of true love enters the equation?</div>
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Duke with Benefits is the second in Manda Collins' Studies in Scandal series set in Regency England.</div>
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“There you are, my dear,” said the Earl of Forsyth with a beaming smile that didn’t quite reach his eyes.</div>
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“Is that any way to greet your Papa?” the earl chided, stepping back from her and wandering farther into the room, standing to stare out at the gardens below through the window. “I’ve traveled all the way from London to see you. And this lovely estate. I must admit that when I first learned of your inheritance, I thought it was all some sort of trick. But you would have your own way and leave the loving bosom of your family no matter what I said. Now that I’m here, though, and see it in person, I must admit that it’s a lovely spot. And your chaperone, Lady Serena, is quite beautiful, isn’t she? A widow, I take it?”</div>
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“I don’t believe we’ve met, Forsyth,” he said forcefully, stepping up to stand side by side with Daphne. He gave a slight bow, perhaps not quite as deep as was warranted, but not caring. “The Duke of Maitland. I am a friend of your daughter’s, you might say.”<br />
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“I am here visiting my sister, Lady Serena,” Maitland said coolly, letting the other man know in tone rather than words that he had not appreciated the older man’s speculative words about her earlier. “And of course my cousin, Kerr. He only recently married another of the heiresses here, and resides here with her.”</div>
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His jaw clenched, Forsyth said grimly, “Very well. If you wish your friend to witness our dirty linen, so be it.” As if needing to be in motion in order to speak, the earl began to pace the area between the window and the fireplace. “You know, Daphne, you left me without any obvious means of recouping what I lost from years of paying that tutor of yours, old man Sommersby.”</div>
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Hastily, Forsyth continued, “And I am currently in need of funds. As such, I must insist you return to London with me for the time being and meet a particular gentleman who has expressed interest in marrying you. Though his birth is not as high as yours, he’s quite wealthy and will make you a good husband, I trust. He’s assured me he has no concern about your odd ways, if you’re as beautiful as your portrait.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Most Likely Series, Book Three<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "century gothic"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Catherine Bybee</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic"; font-size: 11.0pt;">May 09, 2017, First Edition<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "century gothic"; font-size: 11.0pt;">In the final book in
bestselling author Catherine Bybee’s Most Likely To trilogy, River Bend’s rebel
follows in her father’s footsteps to become sheriff. But it might be time to
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uncovering the truth about her father’s mysterious death. Life is quiet in
rustic River Bend, but Jo longs for something beyond her small hometown and the
painful memories it holds. All that keeps her sane is the support of her best
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when Jo signs up for an expert law enforcement training seminar, she meets Gill
Clausen, whose haunting eyes and dangerously sexy vibe just may challenge her
single-minded focus. Commitment-phobic Jo can’t deny her attraction to the
arrogant federal agent, and when odd things start happening around River Bend
and danger surrounds her, she realizes she’ll need his help to discover who’s
out to remove her from River Bend…permanently.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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her grip on the past enough to let love in and reach for the future?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was bittersweet reading Making It Right, on one hand I was so looking forward to Jo's story, she reminded me of myself during the teen years, and then on the other hand, this was (tear) the last of the Most Likely series. I have felt welcomed each time I read the first two books. I felt like I was coming home to River Bend and my friends and family were there waiting with welcome arms. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fans, new and returning, of Catherine will get swept away within the first few pages. The series is based on three friends from childhood, each one has been voted by there peers as the "<b>Most Likely To .... ". </b>In Jo's case she was voted the <b>Most Likely To </b>leave River Bend once she graduated. She was rebellious and always pushing the envelope, it made matters worst knowing that her father was the town's Sheriff. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well fast forward to the future, Jo surprises everyone and turns her life a complete 360 by becoming the Sheriff of the town she was so eager to escape. A job she inherited from her father after his death. Jo refuses to believe that her father accidentally shot himself, she believes he was murdered and she is out to prove it. Jo may be smart-mouthed heroine, the one carrying the badge, but she has a soft side by trying to reform those that break the rules, a little "sweat" doesn't hurt anyone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Jo still has her "wild" side, but she hides her "sex life" from the noisy neighbors and seeks her releases in neighboring areas. She travels to DC for some advanced training performed by the FBI, while there she meets bad boy Gil. Sparks fly and clothes are tossed when these two are together. They make a great pair in bed, but when they pair up in official business can they final solve the decade mystery of Jo's fathers death? Will Jo be too much of a liability and will danger find her? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You don't want to miss this page turning book. For those who love sexy romance with a twist of mystery, this is the book you don't want to miss out on. It is a stand alone read, I recommend you reading all of the books in this series to learn all about the returning characters and how their lives intertwine.</span></div>
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<span class="s5" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">In the tradition of New York Times bestselling authors Rachel Gibson, Kristan Higgins, and Jill Shalvis, comes the second book in a funny and charming new small-town contemporary romance series by Marina Adair.</span></div>
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<span class="s5" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">There are a lot of things Ali Marshal doesn't do: pink anything, a day without chocolate, and Hawk, her sister's ex-husband. Sure, he's a sexy former NHL star who can make her pulse pound with just a wink. But he belonged to Bridget first. And no matter how long she's had a crush on him, how great he's always been to her dad, or that her sister is engaged to someone else now and Ali needs a date to their engagement party, she can't give in to temptation. Can she?</span></div>
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<span class="s5" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">It's been years since his disastrous marriage crashed and burned, and Bradley Hawk has finally moved on. So when Bridget blows back into town with her new fiancé, throwing the engagement party of the year, he could care less . . . until Ali tells one little lie that lands him smack dab in a fake relationship. After one promise to be Ali's date and two of the hottest kisses he's ever had, Hawk can't deny how much he wants her. But what happens when this fauxmance starts to feel very, very real?</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Ali nodded because she needed him more than she</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">needed her next breath.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">The intensity of her feelings terrified her. They always</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">had. Even at seventeen she knew what she felt went beyond</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">the run-of-the-mill teenage crush. She’d been in</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">love. Sure, it was a young, simple love, but it was love all</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">the same.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Only he’d loved someone else.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">So</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> when he married her sister, she did her best to let</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">him go. But no matter how painful it had been for her, and</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">at times the ache was so acute it had been paralyzing, she</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">was never able to set him completely free. Choosing the</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">pain over the loss.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Now he was back, looking at her how she always</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">looked at him, as if he’d never let go, and Ali gave in to</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">the fantasy. Played out th</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">e what-ifs she carried with her </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">for over a decade. He’d been hers for so long, she let herself</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">believe that she was his, too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">He was asking for right here, right now—this she</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">knew. Tomorrow, reality would creep in, and everything</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">would go back to the way it was. But tonight, sitting on</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">this beach, overlooking a world bigger than the two of</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">them, Ali wanted to feel what it was like to be loved by</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">the man who owned her heart.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“What do you want, Aliana?” he whispered, the</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">sound of her name on his lips doing crazy things to her.</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Crazy girly things that made her feel delicate and desirable.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Hawk’s eyes darkened, and his mouth was on hers.</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Hard and demanding, and just how she’d imagined. There</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">was no warm-up, no testing the waters. He was kissing</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">her as if he knew what he wanted.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.2px;">Their mouths were fused together, her hands gripping</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.2px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.2px;">his shoulders for purchase, but his fingers were gentle,</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.2px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.2px;">languidly exploring her face, her neck, the curve of her</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.2px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.2px;">shoulder, slowly moving down her arm and bringing the</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.2px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.2px;">wide neckline of her shirt with him.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">He never stopped kissing her, but she felt his lashes</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">flutter open, realized that she’d never closed her own.</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Then his deep brown eyes locked on hers, watching her</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">as they kissed, and it wa</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">s erotic and unexpected. As she </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">watched him back, she felt his lips curl into a smile.</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Could feel the dimples on both cheeks come alive under</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">her touch.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“You like to watch,” Hawk growled, and she felt her</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">cheeks flush.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Ali never considered herself a watcher. But Hawk was</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">such a beautiful and commanding man, she’d never been</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">able to look away. Not even now, when her body was begging</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">for release. He was that good—a simple kiss and she</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">was so turned on, she could feel her body shaking.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“It’s not like I stand there peering through your bedroom</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">window at night,” she said, leaving out that night</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">he was at the bar. His bedroom window during the morning,</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">when he was walking around after a shower. She was</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">more than guilty.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s23" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">“Just because you can make a cake doesn’t mean you can eat it,” I said, rolling my head on my shoulders and popping my knuckles. The four-layer cake in front of me was daunting. I formed a strategy, one slice at a time.</span></div>
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<span class="s23" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">The bell rang, and we were off. We each had knives, but those of us with experience skipped that time consuming task. Hands worked just fine, and going for big bites with minimum chewing was optimal. The winner was Berty Carson from the barber shop, an elderly man who obviously had been practicing judging by the girth around his waist.</span></div>
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<span class="s23" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Nick grabbed my hand and stuck one of my fingers in his mouth, sucking the cake off with his tongue. Everything stopped for me for a moment, the world going on tilt, and he winked as he licked his lips.</span></div>
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I stumbled upon Sharla Lovelace shortly after launching Forever Book Lover. I was fortunate to participate in an early review tour for Sharla's <a href="http://foreverbklover.blogspot.com/2012/04/reason-is-you-tour-interview-review-and.html">The Reason is You.</a> So I didn't want to miss out reading Sharla's latest book, A Charmed Little Lie. </div>
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I love reading small town romances, so it's no surprise that most of the books that I read are small towns. This series is set in Texas, after a few pages you felt liked your either lived there or visited. Within the first few pages, you knew that this was going to be a fun, hilarious, sexy read. What's not to love, a little white lie turns out to cause a huge rippling effect. With the chance of inheriting her for beloved Aunt home, our heroine runs into a snag. In exchange for the keys she must bring along her husband, ok why that doesn't sound so difficult, unless of course, you never had a husband and need to quickly find one that can play the part. That's where all the fun and laughter begins. If you are in the mood for a great read, then I highly recommend this book. Looking forward to return to Charmed, Texas and see what's in store for the rest of the town. </div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s12" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.199999809265137px;">Sharla Lovelace</span><span class="s13" style="line-height: 13.199999809265137px;"> is the bestselling, award-winning author of sexy small-town love stories. Being a Texas girl through and through, she’s proud to say she lives in Southeast Texas with her retired husband, a tricked-out golf cart, and two crazy dogs. She is the author of five stand-alone novels including the bestselling Don’t Let Go, the exciting Heart Of The Storm series, and the fun and sexy new Charmed in Texas series. </span></span></div>
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<b style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">A second chance for romance...</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Hidden in Graystone
Manor is a book containing all the dark secrets of Harmony Harbor, and Ava
DiRossi is determined to find it. No one-especially not her ex-husband, Griffin
Gallagher-can ever discover what really tore her life apart all those years
ago. With Griffin back in town, it's more important than ever that she find the
book before someone else does. Because her ex is still angry with her for
leaving him. And he still has no idea Ava never stopped loving him...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Ava is no longer
the vibrant, happy woman Griffin had once loved and married, and he would do
anything to bring back the sparkle to her brilliant green eyes. But what's
never changed are the sexy sparks of attraction between Ava and Griffin, and he
won't give her up again without a fight. He knows there's the real possibility
of a future together... if the truth doesn't burn the bridge between them
forever.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Turning the lever to hot, Griffin left the bathroom to retrieve a
bar of soap from his kit. He stopped short at the sight of Ava walking across
the room carrying an armful of wood.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What the hell do you think you’re doing?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Her mouth fell open, and she dropped the logs…onto her foot. “Crap.
Ow. Crap,” she yelped, grabbing her foot and hopping around.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Ava, let go of your foot. You’ll hurt your arm.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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She ignored him, swearing in Italian while still holding on to her
foot with both hands.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He released an exasperated sigh. “Stubborn as ever,” he muttered as
he walked toward her and scooped her into his arms. She might be as stubborn as
she used to be, but she was at least thirty pounds lighter. When they were
together, she’d been all soft, lush curves. She released a surprised gasp and
her arms automatically went around his neck. Beneath the smell of damp wool, he
caught a whiff of the same perfume she used to wear—Dolce & Gabbana Light
Blue. It brought back memories of all the times he’d held her in his arms.
Seven years of memories, most of them amazing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He set her on the edge of the bed and cleared his throat. “Do you
think your foot’s broken?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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She didn’t answer; she looked like she might be in shock. He
crouched in front of her to remove her wet shoes. The old Ava wouldn’t have
been caught dead wearing shoes like these. She loved heels, the higher the
better. Sexy, strappy shoes that were colorful and blinged out. He never could
figure out how she walked in them for hours on end without complaining. But damn,
he’d loved watching her do it. He should probably be grateful her taste in
footwear had changed too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This pair though…“For Chrissakes, Ava, there’s a hole in the bottom
of this shoe, and look at this.” He lifted the other shoe, flicking its
flapping sole.<o:p></o:p></div>
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She made a small choking sound, her eyes huge in her flushed face.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He frowned. “What’s wrong with—”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You…you’re naked.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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He scowled and rose to his feet. “It’s not like you haven’t seen it
before,” he grumbled, stalking to the bathroom to retrieve a towel. She was
gone by the time he came back.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wow, I think I found a new favorite author. If you like Jill Shalvis, Lori Foster, RaeAnne Thayne, Christie Ridgway, you will absolutely love Debbie Mason. I stumbled upon, <i>A Trouble with Christmas</i>, and I was hooked. Starlight Bridge is the second book in Harmony Harbor series, from the moment you read the first chapter you are swept away in a romantic comedy. It is not the same old same old second chance at love story, there is mystery, secrets, heartbreak and plenty of sexy love scenes. Our heroine loved her husband, they were meant to always have HEA, but as life sometimes does it places challenges and heartbreak that sometimes tears two lovebirds apart. Well the old saying,<i> Time Heals All Wounds</i>, may not exactly have happened to these two but I would say, I<i>f You Love Someone, Set Them Free. If They Come Back They’re Yours, </i>definitely describes the forever love of Ava and Griffin. Although this is the second book in the series, it can be read alone. There are some returning characters, so it was helpful for me to have read the first book to understand how the characters intertwine with one another. I think the best part was the funny, loveable GG, who is still matchmaking although she has departed. I typically don't give much away on the storyline but I think once you begin the book you will not be disappointed. Pick up an copy, e-book, or enter to win today.<br />
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<span class="s7" style="line-height: 14.4px;">If </span><span class="s7" style="line-height: 14.4px;">the</span><span class="s7" style="line-height: 14.4px;"> Duke Demands</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s7" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Author: </span><span class="s7" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Anna Harrington</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s7" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">On Sale: </span><span class="s7" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">February 28,</span><span class="s7" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> 2017</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s7" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Series: </span><span class="s7" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Capturing the </span><span class="s7" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Carlisles</span><span class="s7" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">: Book 1</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Her eyes narrowed as she took in that bit of dubious</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">advice and contemplated what he asked of her, with a curious</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">look of deep study and concentration. For a moment,</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">her expression was damnably disconcerting as she tried to</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">think up a compliment to give him, as if she had never truly</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">noticed him before as a man. Which inexplicably irked him</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to no end. How could she have not noticed him before as</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">someone other than the Duke of Trent, other than just a</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">friend?</span></span></div>
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<br /><b>FBL <span style="color: red;">♥</span>: Do you write detailed character profiles before writing, or do you find the characters come to life as you write? </b><br /><br />I *try* to write out detailed histories for each character that I can draw on for motivation and conflict and because I think that having a back story in my head, even if it never makes it into the novel, helps me write more complex and richer characters. BUT the characters have their own minds! They often head in a completely different direction than I want them to go by the end of the first draft. I should do physical profiles as well—hair color, eyes, etc.—but I’m always too eager to get writing on their stories!<br /><br /><b>FBL <span style="color: red;">♥</span>: What do you like better: when you’ve just started writing a book or when you’ve just finished one, and why?</b><br /><br />I love it when a book is just finished because my favorite part of the writing process is the revision stage. (Yes, I am that much of a nerd!) I love having it all done so I can go back and wrestle with problems in the plot, layer in character motivations and backgrounds, add more emotion—sometimes I end up rewriting most of it. In ALONG CAME A ROGUE, I ended up changing the entire second half of the novel, from Emily pursing Grey to Grey chasing after Emily. Sometimes it’s really hard to let go of a scene or a chapter, but you have to make that cut in order to make it better. <br /><br /><b>FBL <span style="color: red;">♥</span>: Is anything in your book based on real life experiences or purely all imagination?</b><br /><br />I wish I could say that I’m a young, sophisticated Regency lady who dresses in silks and attends balls…but sadly, it mostly all comes from my imagination! I’ve been fortunate to have lived in England, so I’m able to draw on what I experienced there, and those feelings and descriptions find their way into my books all the time. Sometimes, I’ll read a bit of history and work that into the plot—like St. Katharine’s in my upcoming book, AS THE DEVIL DARES, whose destruction forms a secondary plot to the romance. But I never write about people I know. I find that *really* difficult for me to do because I can never capture their personal essence and end up turning them into caricatures rather than characters.<br /><b><br />FBL <span style="color: red;">♥</span>: What was the hardest thing to cut from your manuscript?</b><br /><br />Jokes! Those are the interesting lines or snippets that can make a scene shine, and so when I have a scene with a really good joke in it, it’s so *hard* to cut it. I’ll twist myself into knots to come up with a way to save the joke, if I can. <br /><br /><b>FBL <span style="color: red;">♥</span>: If If the Duke Demands had a theme song, what would it be?</b><br /><br />Oh, good question! “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You” by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. I think the characters—and all of us—can connect with the lines, “At long last love has arrived / And I thank God I'm alive…” And “Now that I've found you stay / And let me love you, baby / Let me love you…” I think those lines really sum up Miranda and Sebastian’s unexpected love. (Of course, I also think the lyrics from I’m Gonna Be by the Proclaimers are just off-beat enough to fit their off-beat romance, too…“But I would walk 500 miles / And I would walk 500 more / Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles / To fall down at your door…”) <br /><br /><b>FBL <span style="color: red;">♥</span>: What books are on your nightstand, waiting to be read?</b><br /><br />Right now, all of Lisa Kleypas’s historical romances! I love to pick an author and read all of her books in order so that I can see how she’s evolved as a writer. I love to study a good writer’s works and really analyze what she does to make the stories come alive. I also have a non-fiction book on architectural details of Regency houses. And of course, THE GROUCHO LETTERS, a collection of Groucho Marx’s letters to his family and friends, which never leaves my bedside. Even when I’ve had the worst day imaginable, reading a few of those letters always make me feel better.<br /><br /><div style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
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Catherine Bybee's books are a must on my bookshelf. I love the Most Likely series, Staying for Good was the perfect winter weekend read for me. It was well written, with characters that came to life within a matter of a few pages. I really came to cared about Zoe and Luke, there story is of second chances. </div>
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This series is about three friends since high school their lives take them on different paths but they are never far from each other. Their lives circle back around and find them all back to their small hometown. Zoe left to make a better life for herself, but she needed to leave a part of herself behind, her heart. Spend some time curling up with this sexy contemporary romance, as two highschool sweethearts, lose love and then get a second chance at love, and no one is going to stop them this time. Such a fun read. <br /><br /><br /><br /></div>
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<span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">“Ladies don’t have jobs.” Angelique tried to put some conviction into that statement, knowing it was what she was supposed to say. Such knowledge had been drilled into her since she was old enough to walk. Ladies grew up and married well and became wives who lived out their lives in genteel comfort. They did not partake in industry. Or gambling.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">At least they didn’t until they did not marry at all, much less well, and their parents died, their family fortune went missing, and their newly titled brother couldn’t stay sober long enough to look for it. Then ladies did what they had to do to hold their families together.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">She glanced up at him, but her sharp reply, like everything else, had only seemed to amuse him.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">“A strange thing to say for a lady who already treats my </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">vingt</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">-et-un table as her personal place of business.”</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Lavoie’s lip had curled, his scar making it look more like a smirk than a smile.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">She looked away, despising the truth in his assessment. “I do no such thing. Ladies don’t have jobs,” she repeated, though it was a pitiable attempt at her defense.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">“Ladies don’t have jobs that people know about,” he countered.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">“What? What does that mean?” Angelique’s eyes snapped back to his.</span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Lavoie moved out from behind his desk and leaned back against the front of it. He crossed his booted feet casually, never taking his eyes off her. “It means, my lady, that once you stop pretending to be aghast, and you understand that I offer the potential to earn more money in </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">a single night than you will earn in three at the card tables, you might wish to reconsider. I wish you to deal a high-stakes </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">vingt</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">-et-un table that can accommodate at least six players who will be playing against the house and not each other. Who will be playing against </span><span class="s4" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">you</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">.</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">”</span></span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">“I don’t need to have your answer now,” he said, tipping his head. “You know where to find me. I will pay you for your time, of course, and you will also receive a percentage of whatever you—my club—wins. I promise that your identity will remain concealed. And unlike the men you have had to endure thus far at the tables, I promise that I won’t touch your breasts. And anyone else in my club who might attempt to do so in the future will answer to me.”</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">She felt her face heat all over again, even as another hail of unwanted thrills crackled through her like a summer storm.</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">“Tell me you’ll think about it,” Lavoie prompted.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">“Very well.” The shock was wearing off, and Angelique was trying her best to collect her scattered thoughts. She’d be an idiot to deny him outright. She didn’t trust him entirely, but her current situation didn’t leave her many choices. And she couldn’t deny that his offer, like the man himself, was more than a little…intriguing. Exciting. </span><span class="s4" style="font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Fascinating.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Lavoie pushed himself off the desk, coming to stand directly in front of her. His eyes skimmed over her hair, her mask, her gown, as if he was evaluating—admiring—what he saw. “With a mind such as yours, I think you would be brilliant,” he </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">murmured. “I think that you and I would make splendid partners.”</span></span></div>
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