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  “Hmm. Good question, sweetheart. Probably as well I have you.”

  In that second the world dropped away. She didn’t bother to deny that would be anything less than the fulfillment of her dreams. If she succeeded here, the rest would all take care of itself. By inches and degrees.

  “I just want to be happy.”

  “You will be.”

  He looked down at her face, and she gulped. Dear God. She could feel him there between her legs, in the tangle of her skirt. But at that moment she had not expected him to enter her. Fully. In some ways it was how attuned they were to each other though. Then he paused, his rich, impassioned gaze saying he knew exactly what he did and how slowly he intended to take this, giving her everything a man was meant to give a woman. The sensation drove the last clear thought from her mind. She writhed. How he did this suddenly not mattering half so much as he did, because then it would be a stamp on their relationship. But then he smoothed the hair back from her forehead.

  “I love you, Kara McGurkie,” he murmured. “You’re the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.”

  She gasped and kissed him in response. He may have made her feel like a woman again, but she had never felt so much like one as she did for finally hearing these words. Thank God she had resisted the temptation to go to places in herself and stay there. This was what she was surely born for. To love and be loved in return. After all, a woman could give of herself like that.

  “Just love me,” she croaked, amazed by the level of ecstasy she’d already reached.

  “If you’re sure.”

  Her throat dried. Sure? When he was already inside her? But she understood why he asked her. This could have been with anyone. She thanked God it was him. And she wanted to give him that reassurance. It was all right for him to touch her. “Of you, doing this? Yes, I am. I always was. It’s how you made me feel from the start. But I think that when I learned to trust you about it was that night I goaded you. Although I do know now, I never should have done it, knowing how difficult it’s been for you.”

  “All right then.”

  He began to move, and she closed her eyes in sheer ecstasy.

  She imagined herself holding this man till the day she died. She had come to Lochalpin to reach the stars after all. It was not a journey she could take alone.

  ~ About the Author ~

  Shehanne Moore is a Scottish born author who writes gritty, witty, more risky than risqué, historical romance, set wherever takes her fancy--stories that detail the best and worst of human behaviour, as opposed to pouts and flounces.

  For years she did various jobs while pursuing her dream of becoming a published writer, so she was thrilled to be offered a contract by Etopia Press for The Unraveling of Lady Fury, six days after subbing it.

  Shehanne still lives in Scotland with her husband Mr Shey. She has two daughters. When not writing intriguing, and of course, sizzling, historical romance, where goals and desires of sassy, unconventional heroines and ruthless men, mean worlds do collide, she fantasizes about cleaning the house, plays the odd musical instrument and loves what in any other country, would not be defined, as hill-walking.

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  The Unraveling of Lady Fury

  Rule One: There will be no kissing. Rule two: There will be no touching…

  Widowed Lady Fury Shelton hasn’t lost everything—yet. As long as she produces the heir to the Beaumont dukedom, she just might be able to keep her position. And her secrets. But when the callously irresistible Captain James “Flint” Blackmoore sails back into her life, Lady Fury panics. She must find a way to protect herself—and her future—from the man she’d rather see rotting in hell than sleeping in her bed. If she must bed him to keep her secrets, so be it. But she doesn’t have to like it. A set of firm rules for the bedroom will ensure that nothing goes awry. Because above all else, she must stop herself from wanting the one thing that Flint can never give her. His heart.

  Ex-privateer Flint Blackmoore has never been good at following the rules. Now, once again embroiled in a situation with the aptly named Lady Fury, he has no idea why he doesn’t simply do the wise thing and walk away. He knows he’s playing with fire, and that getting involved with her again is more dangerous than anything on the high seas. But he can’t understand why she’s so determined to hate him. He isn’t sure if the secret she keeps will make things harder—or easier—for him, but as the battle in the bedroom heats up, he knows at least one thing. Those silly rules of hers will have to go…

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  Tarah Scott

  No man bargains for war when he chooses a bride, but when he steals her from holy ground, he can expect nothing less.

  Iain MacPherson swore he was nothing like his father, but his kidnapping of Victoria Hockley, the Countess of Lansbury is the first step toward the same obsessive jealousy that fueled his father's life-long feud against the chief Iain's mother loved.

  A kiss, a midnight race for freedom, and a royal missive force Victoria into her captor's arms. Hallowed ground can't save her from the devil that followed her from England. Yet the Scottish lord who swears to protect her is far more dangerous.

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  Ainslin fears Torsten's reaction when he discovers she’s a virgin. How will she explain her maidenhead and twin sons? Will Torsten cast Ainslin and the boys aside when he discovers the truth?

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  When Lilacs Bloom

  Nell DuVall

  Changing history won't be easy—not even when Libby goes back in time to save the man she loves.

  Libby Leverett senses nothing evil in Mohr House and refuses to believe in a murderous ghost. Her beloved home is her treasure, and she won't entertain her fiance's demands that she sell the old place. Things have changed between Walter and her, and when she finds James Mohr's letters and journals from 1842, she discovers an intelligent and sensitive man engaged to someone he doesn't love. The more Libby learns, the more she feels James is everything she's ever wanted—and everything that Walter is not.

  But when
she writes a letter to James and leaves it in one of his old books in the study, strange things happen. The letter disappears.

  When Libby learns that James's fiancée dies and her vengeful mother accuses him of killing her, Libby can't stand to watch the horrible scene play out. If a letter reached him, maybe she can too…

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  Malice Striker

  Viking Vengeance Book One

  Jianne Carlo

  Can a mere mortal Viking tame the daughter of a goddess?

  When Scotland’s King Kenneth orders his death and kidnaps his sister, the Viking Brökk—the Malice Striker—plans his vengeance: he’ll steal the king’s bastard daughter from Sumbarten Abbey and use her to buy his sister’s freedom. But his schemes go awry when his liege lord commands him to wed Skatha—and when he finds five women instead of one at the Abbey, none will claim the King as father.

  When the Viking abducts Skatha and her women, she’s bewildered. Why did Brökk seize her? Why does he want her for his wife? She weds him willingly enough when he threatens to kill her companions, but she vows to control her own destiny and escape. For if the Viking discovers her secrets, the laws of his people will force him to cast her aside…or kill her. And even Skatha, daughter of a goddess, might not escape the Viking’s wrath…

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  Table of Contents

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen