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Blush Sensuality Level: This is a sensual romance (love scenes are not graphic).She might be a gently reared daredevil, but the first time Mourning Howard sees Clint Kincaid, she knocks him out cold. So it's a bit mortifying when she learns later that he is her stepbrother, who has come to escort her from a Memphis plantation to a big Texas ranch--sparks flying and passions flaming the entire way.When it comes to women, Clint Kincaid always gets what he wants. Before long, he learns that offering Mourning his protection is easy, but protecting her from his own fiery attraction is the challenge of a lifetime.While talk of a Civil War between the states spreads, Mourning makes the long journey to Texas, never knowing the man protecting her will be the one to shatter her life. From Memphis to Texas, they pursue the tangled threads of their destiny.A Blush® historical romance from Ellora's CavePublisher's Note: This book was previously published elsewhere in 1988.… (plus d'informations)
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Prologue: Fate leads the willing, and drag along the reluctant. Seneca, Letters to Lucilius (1st c.)
Part One: The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication; for youth is sweet and they are growing. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Part Two: The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit; and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Part Three: Time, in the turning-over of days, works change for better or worse. Pindar, Odes (5th c. B.C.)
Part Four: Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Part Five: A mighty pain to love it is, / And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; / But of all pains, the greatest pain / It is to love, but love in vain. Abraham Cowley, "Gold," From Anacreon
Part Six: It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love. La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
Epilogue: Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. Longfellow, "A Psalm of Life"
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With much love to my daughter, Lesley, who started it all
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Prologue - 1860: "Aunt Harriett, can you tell me how it is that a person can wait for something, forever it seems, without it ever coming to pass, and then, just about the time you've decided it won't ever happen, it does?"
Chapter 1 - 1860: He was out cold.
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Blush Sensuality Level: This is a sensual romance (love scenes are not graphic).She might be a gently reared daredevil, but the first time Mourning Howard sees Clint Kincaid, she knocks him out cold. So it's a bit mortifying when she learns later that he is her stepbrother, who has come to escort her from a Memphis plantation to a big Texas ranch--sparks flying and passions flaming the entire way.When it comes to women, Clint Kincaid always gets what he wants. Before long, he learns that offering Mourning his protection is easy, but protecting her from his own fiery attraction is the challenge of a lifetime.While talk of a Civil War between the states spreads, Mourning makes the long journey to Texas, never knowing the man protecting her will be the one to shatter her life. From Memphis to Texas, they pursue the tangled threads of their destiny.A Blush® historical romance from Ellora's CavePublisher's Note: This book was previously published elsewhere in 1988.
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