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      Sooner or later Alexandra would likely be married.

      She would be vulnerable, open to the same hurt and betrayal her mother had suffered. And she was afraid.

      Not all men were like her father, Alex reassured herself.

      Or like Rafe Garrick.

      Only a short time ago she had come up from the beach and gone into his room. She had stood beside his bed, her eyes tracing the strong, stubborn lines of his face, the wave of dark chestnut hair that tumbled onto his forehead. A warm sense of possession had stolen over her. Hadn’t she saved him from the sea? It was almost as if part of his life belonged to her.

      Then Rafe Garrick had awakened, banishing all her illusions. He was not the kind of man to be possessed by her or by anyone. He was arrogant. He was quarrelsome. For all she knew, he could be out of his mind. And she would be out of her own mind as well, Alex told herself, if she had anything more to do with him.

      HIGH FLIGHT

      Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth

      And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;

      Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth

      Of sun-split clouds – and done a hundred things

      You have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swung

      High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,

      I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung

      My eager craft through footless halls of air…

      Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue

      I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace

      Where never lark, or even eagle flew –

      And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod

      The high untrespassed sanctity of space,

      Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

      John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

       Thanks to the family of John Gillespie Magee, Junior for permission to publish this poem

      Elizabeth Lane has lived and travelled in many parts of the world, including Europe, Latin America and the Far East, but her heart remains in the American West, where she was born and raised. Her idea of heaven is hiking a mountain trail on a clear autumn day. She also enjoys music, animals and dancing. You can learn more about Elizabeth by visiting her website at www.elizabethlaneauthor.com

       Previous novels by the same author:

      ANGELS IN THE SNOW (part of Stay for Christmas anthology) HER DEAREST ENEMY THE STRANGER

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      Elizabeth Lane

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      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Excerpt

       Epigraph

       About the Author

       Other Books By

       Title Page

       Dedication

       Acknowledgements

       Prologue

       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

       Chapter Sixteen

       Epilogue

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