Whirlwind
WELCOME TO TYLER.AMERICA'S FAVORITE HOMETOWNA town filled with memorable friends and unforgettable lovers. Share the passions, the hopes and dreams of America's favorite small town.WHERE ROMANCE BLOOMSWhen lively, brash Liza Baron arrives home unexpectedly, she moves into the old family lodge – where silent, mysterious Cliff Forrester has been living in seclusion for years….WHERE THE FUTURE IS ABOUT TO COLLIDE WITH THE PASTWhen a body is uncovered on the lodge grounds, the community begins to piece together the truth about Tyler's first family, and a secret hidden for forty years threatens to tear the town apart.
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WELCOME TO TYLER-AMERICA’S FAVORITE HOMETOWN
A town filled with memorable friends and unforgettable lovers. Share the passions, the hopes and dreams of America’s favorite small town.
WHERE ROMANCE BLOOMS
When lively, brash Liza Baron arrives home unexpectedly, she moves into the old family lodge—where silent, mysterious Cliff Forrester has been living in seclusion for years....
WHERE THE FUTURE IS ABOUT TO COLLIDE WITH THE PAST
When a body is uncovered on the lodge grounds, the community begins to piece together the truth about Tyler’s first family, and a secret hidden for forty years threatens to tear the town apart....
Previously Published.
“I’m not leaving Timberlake, so forget it!”
Cliff couldn’t believe what he was hearing.
“I need a place to crash for a while,” Liza continued. “I’m not here because of you, Forrester, so stop thinking I’m hot for your body or something, because I’m not—even if you’re hot for mine!”
“You are the most exasperating woman—”
“Oh, cool down,” Liza said with an impish grin. “I think you could use some exasperation. You’ve gotten too comfortable up here all by yourself.” She tossed her head pertly. “I’ve heard about you, Forrester.”
“Exactly what have you heard?”
“You’ve got quite a reputation around town. You’re a hermit or a lone wolf. Some people even think you’re dangerous.”
A few things began to clear up in Cliff’s mind. “That’s why you’ve come dancing in here this way, isn’t it, you get your kicks out of dangerous men.”
“Where I get my kicks is none of your business,” she replied. “I’m curious about you, that’s all. You’re a mystery man, Forrester, and I love a mystery.”
Welcome to Mills & Boon’s Tyler, a small Wisconsin town whose citizens we hope you’ll soon come to know and love. Like many of the innovative publishing concepts Mills & Boon has launched over the years, the idea for the Tyler series originated in response to our readers’ preferences. Your enthusiasm for sequels and continuing characters within many of the Mills & Boon lines has prompted us to create a twelve-book series of individual romances whose characters’ lives inevitably intertwine.
Tyler faces many challenges typical of small towns, but the fabric of this fictional community will be torn by the revelation of a long-ago murder, the details of which will evolve right through the series. This intriguing crime will profoundly affect the lives of the Ingallses, the Barons, the Forresters and the Wochecks.
Renovations have begun on the old Timberlake resort lodge as the series opens, and the lodge will also attract the attention of a prominent Chicago hotelier, a man with a personal interest in showing Tyler folks his financial clout.
Marge is waiting with some home-baked pie at her diner, and policeman Brick Bauer might direct you down Elm Street if it’s patriarch Judson Ingalls you’re after. The Kelseys run the loveliest boardinghouse in town, and you’ll find everything you need at Gates Department Store. When spitfire Liza Baron returns to town, the fireworks begin. So join us in Tyler, once a month, for the next twelve months, for a slice of small-town life that’s not as innocent or as quiet as you might expect, and for a sense of community that will capture your mind and your heart.
Marsha Zinberg
Editorial Coordinator, Tyler
Special thanks and acknowledgment to Nancy Martin for her contribution to this work.
Special thanks and acknowledgment to Joanna Kosloff for her contribution to the concept for the Tyler series.
CONTENTS
FAILURE DROVE Liza Baron home.
She went one cool summer night in a vintage Thunderbird convertible, the last personal possession she still owned free and clear. She started out in a rage in Chicago about midnight and drove toward no particular destination at first. It just felt good to go, with her hair whipping in the wind and the radio blasting rock and roll.
But around four in the morning, after aimless driving along highways she’d never known existed, Liza found herself in Wisconsin just ten miles from Tyler. After that, it was like automatic pilot. In the dark, she drove the white car up to the lake and her grandfather’s lodge, which she figured would be empty. Liza didn’t want to see anybody. The last thing she needed was a damned heart-to-heart with some well-meaning family member. Or worst of all, her mother.
Liza just wanted to be alone.
The sky began to lighten as she turned into the lane marked by two brick columns and started up the hillside under the canopy of century-old trees. The air was hushed. Magical, really. A dreamy white mist eddied upward from the lake and engulfed the car in a kind of swirling cloud. Someone who didn’t know the road might have plunged off into the trees or blundered into the rocks, but Liza drove confidently, her heart suddenly beating fast with anticipation. The Thunderbird’s tires crunched and spun in the gravel at the turns, until at last the car burst out of the mist, and the rooftops of the lodge appeared through the trees.
