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Haunted by scandal, Eden Mallory is determined to start over in a small Kentucky town. But she won't soon forget the sexy, rugged doctor who rescued her from an outlaw, then rode off into the storm.
After losing his kid-brother to consumption, Dr. Michael
Jones is obsessed with saving lives. He has no room for love or a wife. But the
nights are lonely, and Eden haunts his dreams.
When Eden becomes his backdoor neighbor, she turns his world
upside-down with her unconventional healing skills and sweet temptations. Then outlaws return, forcing Michael to
confront his past if he is to save the most precious life of all.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The Charade
Eden dashed away tears and wiped them on her skirts.
"You can be very cruel, Michael."
"That's true."
She rounded on him. "Why? Why do you pretend to be
cruel when you're not?"
She'd startled him. Chagrin flickered in the ocean-blue
depths of his eyes.
"It's hardly pretense. I am what I am."
"No." She shook her head emphatically. "I've
met cruel men before. They have no conscience. But you, you'd blame yourself
for every sickness you can't avert."
His shoulders grew taut.
"You'd lay down your life for a child," she added
more gently.
"You can't possibly know that."
"I was there, Michael. I saw you. You would have torn
that wagon apart, splinter by splinter, to dig Jamie out."
A familiar agony pierced Michael's chest. It was
true—everything she'd said. But on the day of the accident, he hadn't seen
Jamie under that wagon, he'd seen Gabriel. Ten years had eased none of the
pain. In every cough, every sprain, every broken bone and wound, he saw the
ghost of his kid brother. Gabriel's death had left a scorched abyss where his
soul once had been.
And if he ever fell into that pit, Michael knew, he'd never
crawl out again.
"I told you," he said curtly. "Healing people
is my responsibility."
"Your responsibility or your passion?"
"You suffer romantic delusions about me."
"You'd like to think I do. You'd like to convince us
both you don't feel any grief or pain."
He didn't like where this conversation was heading.
"Are you sure you haven't set your cap for me?"
That derailed her from her track. Her chin rose, quivering
beneath flashing, storm-flecked eyes.
"I told you I haven't."
"Good."
"Why?"
"Because you'd regret it."
"Why?" she demanded again.
His gaze roamed over her ribbon-bound hair, shimmering like
molten copper in the lamplight. Renegade wisps curled softly in the hollow of
her throat, just beside the flurry of her pulse, and his lashes fanned lower.
He didn't want her to see the long-constrained hunger that would have made him
feast upon that column of peaches and cream—or, God help him, the ripe, pouty
handfuls that heaved just an arm's length away. Lightning surged to his loins
as he envisioned the globes of her breasts spilling over his palms, their
tender rosettes jutting into his mouth.
"Because I'm not the angel I was named after."
She licked her lips. Nerves, he told himself, not guile.
Still, to spy the pink tip of that tongue chipped at his straining
self-control.
"You're just saying that," she said tremulously.
"To make me think less of you. You couldn't bear it if anyone tried to
hold you up to your own impossible standards."
Her insight, spoken with such hard-won defiance, was almost
as unnerving as the realization that the seventeen-year-old who'd once bathed
his wounds had grown into a woman wiser than her years, a woman who could see
clear to the charred bottom of his soul.
But Michael had never cowered before a worthy opponent, and
he wasn't about to start now. He stepped closer. Then closer still. He halted
only when his thighs were bare inches from her skirts, when his shoulders towered
above hers and she was forced to crane her neck to meet his gaze. It was a
deliberate tactic, one designed to press his physical advantage, and yet, at
this proximity, he was forced to breathe her fragrance.
The intoxication of lilies, lavender, and cherry pie was
almost his undoing.
"I'm not afraid of you, Michael."
"You should be, Eden," he said huskily.
"Very, very afraid."
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