Star-Crossed Lovers
LOVERS' REUNION Once upon a time, Jessica Caldwell and Kale Noble had dreamed of marrying and making beautiful babies. But that was before a tragedy ripped their tightly knit families apart. Suddenly their teenage love turned forbidden, and secrets bred betrayals… .Now, thirteen years later, Kale Noble was in Jessi's life once again - and he still had the power to stir her passion like no other man. But this time, Jessi knew the stakes went far beyond her fragile heart. A precious child hung in the balance. A child of noble blood…
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Dear Reader,
Merry Christmas from Silhouette Desire-where you’re guaranteed powerful, passionate and provocative love stories that feature rugged heroes and spirited heroines who experience the full emotional intensity of falling in love!
The always-wonderful Cait London is back with this December’s MAN OF THE MONTH, who happens to be one of THE BLAYLOCKS. In Typical Male, a modern warrior hero is attracted to the woman who wants to destroy him.
The thrilling Desire miniseries TEXAS CATTLEMAN’S CLUB concludes with Lone Star Prince by Cindy Gerard. Her Royal Princess Anna von Oberland finally reunites with the dashing attorney Gregory Hunt who fathered her child years ago.
Talented Ashley Summers returns to Desire with That Loving Touch, where a pregnant woman becomes snowbound with a sexy executive in his cabin. The everpopular BACHELOR BATTALION gets into the holiday spirit with Marine under the Mistletoe by Maureen Child. Star-Crossed Lovers is a Romeo-and-Juliet-with-a-happyending story by Zena Valentine. And an honorable cowboy demands the woman pregnant with his child marry him in Christy Lockhart’s The Cowboy’s Christmas Baby.
Each and every month, Silhouette Desire offers you six exhilarating journeys into the seductive world of romance. So make a commitment to sensual love and treat yourself to all six for some great holiday reading this month!
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“You Shouldn’t Have Followed Me,”
she said. “It should have been obvious, even to you, that I wanted to be alone.”
“It’s all the old hate and resentment, building up for years and years,” he said, his voice low. “And frustration. I wanted you then, you know. It drove me to distraction how much I wanted you, and I held back. And then I discovered I had been a fool. And then I wondered what it would have been like, satisfying that lust.”
“Lust?” She raised her head at the fresh cut of his words. “I loved you then, Kale. I know it was just puppy love. But that’s what you felt for me? Lust?”
He didn’t answer her aloud, but she saw a passing frown, and his eyes strayed from her face. She saw that it might just be his pride talking, for he wasn’t going to admit he loved her once.if he ever had.
This one is for Don.
ZENA VALENTINE
has had a career goal since childhood to “have adventures.” Throughout her adventures in journalism, cosmetics, construction, parenting, corporate financial relations, photography, sports car racing, gardening, flying, cooking and real estate, she has carried a lifelong love of writing. She likens writing a romance novel to restarting an airplane at five thousand feet (“exciting”). Nowadays she divides her time between the north woods of Minnesota and the desert country of Nevada. Her journalist daughter and musician son are off having their own adventures.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM FORZENA VALENTINE’SDEBUT SILHOUETTE NOVEL:
From Humbug to Holiday Bride
(Silhouette Romance #1269)
Nominated for Best First Series Book and Best Silhouette Romance by Romantic Times Magazine
“…a heartwarming tale. Ms. Valentine’s multi-dimensional characters, strong plotting and tender passion blend perfectly to create a marvelous tale of hope that will touch the hearts and souls of readers everywhere.”
—Romantic Times Magazine
“…a love story based on miracles—the miracle of faith and the miracle of love.”
—Rendezvous
Jessica Caldwell Morris felt a furious charge shoot through her chest when she looked up from her desk and saw the glazed white body of a twin-engine prop plane settle onto the runway like a giant porcelain bird.
Noble Engineering, said the crisp blue lettering on the fuselage.
It was several moments before she realized she had ceased breathing as she followed from her second-floor viewpoint the plane’s slackening progress to the end of the runway. While the pilot braked, the plane slowed smoothly as if harnessed by an invisible hand, nearly stopping before it pivoted toward the fuel pumps.
A random gas stop?
Jessi hoped so.
An accident of fate?
Surely the Nobles had no business in Kenross.
“Oh God, oh God, oh God,” she gasped, covering her face with her hands. She felt the sweat and the foreboding of bad memories being jarred awake. Very bad memories. Twelveyear-old very bad memories.
Thank God Chaz was down in the lounge and could take care of whoever was in the plane. Certainly there wasn’t a Noble in the plane, or surely it wouldn’t have stopped.
Unless they didn’t know a Caldwell owned the base.
But how could they know it was her operation? Her name was Morris now, and the sign said Kenross Aviation. On the maps it was identified as Kenross Airport, although she owned the runway and all the land, buildings, equipment and individual businesses, including the repair service, new sales, flight school, plane and hangar rentals. She even owned the helicopter.
