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Ladies, pack your bags and fur-lined parkas. While weâve always heard that Alaskan men are hungry for a little female companionship to warm up those long, blustery cold nights, it appears that eligible males are now falling from the skiesâ¦literally!
At least thatâs how Fortune heiress Holly Douglas met bush pilot Guy Blackwolf. Seems heâd been hired by the Fortune family to bring the reluctant heiress back to Red Rock, when his plane encoutered some bad weather and crash-landed in a nearby lake. Fortunately, Holly was on the scene, and, from the looks of Guy, she gave him plenty of tender loving care during his long recovery. Guy claims that all his wounds have healed, but he still seemed to be a bit dazed and reeling from more than a concussion when The Tattler spoke to him.
Has this pilot just met a force greater than even Mother Natureâ¦Cupid?
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Fortuneâs Secret Daughter
Barbara McCauley
was born and raised in California and has spent a good portion of her life exploring the mountains, beaches and deserts so abundant there. The youngest of five children, she grew up in a small house, and her only chance for a moment alone was to sneak into the backyard with a book and quietly hide away.
With two children of her own now and a busy household, she still finds herself slipping away to enjoy a good novel. A daydreamer and incurable romantic, she says writing has fulfilled her most incredible dream of allâbreathing life into the people in her mind and making them real. She has one loud and demanding Amazon parrot named Fred and a German shepherd named Max. When she can manage the time, she loves to sink her hands into fresh-turned soil and make things grow.
Meet the Fortunes of Texas
Meet the Fortunes of Texasâs Lost Heirsâmembership in this Texas family has its privileges and its price. As the family gathers to welcome its newest members, it discovers a murderer in its midstâ¦and passionate new romances that only a true-bred Texas love can bring!
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Holly Douglas: She thought sheâd run as far away as she could from the Fortune family and the dusty-dry Texas trailer park where sheâd grown up. But fate and the handsome stranger sheâd just rescued had their own agendasâ¦.
Guy Blackwolf: Built solid as a western red cedar, this pilot had yet to meet a female who could get the better of him. And then he went head-to-head with Mother Natureâ¦and Holly Douglas!
Jonas Goodfellow: The Fortunes had opened their homes to this lost heir, but had he repaid their generosity by poisoning the family patriarch?
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
The storm came on fast and hard, slapped at the tiny seaplane as if it were a pesky gnat instead of three thousand pounds of metal and man. Thunder boomed and a second assault on the plane tipped the nose dangerously downward. Metal groaned while the man swore, struggling to hold on to the wheel and stay in control.
âCome on, sweetheart, stay with me,â Guy Blackwolf hissed through clenched teeth. âWeâve seen worse than this.â
Thick clouds swallowed machine and man whole. A jagged bolt of lightning exploded not more than twenty feet from the planeâs left wing, momentarily turning Guyâs world a brilliant, blinding white. He blinked furiously, tightened his grip on the throttle and eased the planeâs nose level while the wind rocked the wings like a childâs teeter-totter.