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1873 –
Adam Gentry, heir to the celebrated
Paradise Stables in Virginia, is haunted by the visions of his lost love.
Feeling cursed by fate, he slips deeper into grief, shrouded in a cloud of
liquor and depression, and neglects his duties and responsibilities. But when
Adam is forced to accept that there’s nothing he can do to change his past, he
knows he must move on.
And he accepts his own destiny: that he
will never love again.
Emmaline Somerset finds herself in the
worst possible position any unmarried woman can be in. She will have to abandon
all of her plans, hopes, and dreams for an independence using her own talents.
The only viable solution is to move to a distant relative’s home and reinvent
herself as a widow with an infant. No one will ever be the
wiser.
Adam, now determined to secure the Gentry
legacy, plans to save longtime family friend Emmaline from her embarrassment
with an offer of marriage. But what Adam didn’t plan on was how his unexpected
attraction to her would stir something inside of him, something he's kept
locked deep within.
Can love finds its way between two troubled
souls, one driven by duty, the other by honor, both determined to find their
way home?
Read an
Excerpt:
Adam thought that she really did need some
rest as it seemed to him she was holding herself upright by sheer will alone.
He stood at his place. Everyone turned their heads to him as if he would be
giving another toast like Matt had done, making everyone chuckle, and then Jim,
whose wishes for them had everyone in the room misty-eyed, including him. But
his mother and Mrs. Somerset, his mother-in-law, strange as that sounded, both
looked at Emmaline and stood.
“Come along now,” Louise said to Jane and
Phillip and Betsy and motioning to Edwin to help her from her chair. “This has
been a long day and I am exhausted.”
“Yes. I am as well,” Eleanor said. “And
these children have near worn themselves out.”
Everyone drifted to the front hallway,
gathering wraps and kissing children. Jim had Nettie’s two in his arms,
carrying them outside to their carriage. Adam helped Louise into her seat and
kissed her cheek as Edwin gathered the reins and nodded at
him.
“See that Emmaline lies down, won’t you,
Adam? I’m so worried for her,” Louise said.
“Of course. It’s been a trying week, but I
think it was a beautiful and memorable day.”
She nodded and looked at him with watery
eyes. “It has. Thank you.”
Matt and Annie were walking home, and he
waved at them after kissing the children and thanking them. He went back inside
and found Emmaline hurrying to the door.
“Tell mother to wait,” she began and then
looked at him, her face going scarlet. “I don’t live there anymore, do
I?”
About the Author:
Holly
Bush writes historical romance set in the U.S.in the late 1800’s, in Victorian
England, and an occasional Women’s Fiction title. Her books are described as
emotional, with heartfelt, sexy romance. She makes her home with her husband in
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
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