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Historical Romance

By Meredith Duran

ISBN-10: 1416585885

ISBN-13: 9781416585886

"*In a debut romance as passionate and sweeping because the British Empire, Meredith Duran paints a strong photo of an aristocrat torn among worlds, an heiress who dares to hazard everything...and the affection born in hearth and darkness that just about destroys them.*

*From unique sandstone palaces...*

Sick of tragedy, performed with uprising, Emmaline Martin vows to settle quietly into British Indian society. but if the pillars of privilege topple, her fiancé's betrayal leaves Emma no selection. She needs to flip for support to the single guy whom she are not belief, yet can't face up to: Julian Sinclair, the harmful and fabulous inheritor to the Duke of Auburn.

*To the marble halls of London...*

In London, they toast Sinclair with champagne. In India, they name him a traitor. Cynical and impatient with either worlds, Julian hasn't ever imagined that where he could belong is within the include of a lady with a reluctant chuckle and haunted eyes. yet in a time of bad darkness, he and Emma will notice that love itself will be perilous -- and unmarried selection can modify one's lifestyles ceaselessly.

*Destiny follows anyplace you run.*

A life of grief later, in a chilly London spring, Emma and Julian needs to eventually confront the reality: irrespective of how not easy one attempts to disclaim it, a few pasts can't be disowned...and a few passions by no means die.

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Maybe the Lost—or at least their servants—are working to build the world, to build life. " "Because it doesn't know what else to do," the Ragged One said. "Because nobody told it to stop. " "Everything about the Lost is a mystery to us," said Autumn grimly. Spiral made to protest, but Autumn insisted. "We lived with them, and accepted their gifts of food and water. But we never understood them. " As the beetle passed, Shoot reached out tentatively with her trunk tip and brushed the sharp edge of its carapace.

Here and there traces of fog and even windblown snow curled tiredly. Birds wheeled exuberantly. She spied huge-winged kittiwakes, fulmars and jet-black guillemots. Every so often one of them would plunge into the dark water, seeking plankton or cod. There was more life here, crowded close to this shore, than anywhere else Icebones had seen on this small world. She heard an angry screeching. There was a bloody carcass on the ice—perhaps it was a seal, or even a bear cub. Petrels soared over it trailing arched wings, their tails fanned out to ward off rivals.

Breeze, panting hard, leaned forward so her back legs were stretched out behind her. Icebones thought she could see the calf moving within its cave of flesh. Breeze raised her trunk and trumpeted, straining. There was a sudden eruption of blood and water, a stink of urine and milk. " Shoot called suddenly. "Look! " And Icebones saw it too: in a gush of water and blood, two legs had pushed from Breeze's vagina. Now a small head and the bulk of a little body was squeezed out, wrapped in a clear, shimmering sheet.

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