Dare to Love(1),
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eBooks are not transferable. They cannot be sold, shared or given away as it is an infringement on the copyright of this work. This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the writer’s imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locale or organizations is entirely coincidental. Samhain Publishing, Ltd. 577 Mulberry Street, Suite 1520 Macon GA 31201 Dare to Love Copyright © 2008 by Jaci Burton ISBN: 1-60504-081-9 Edited by Angela James Cover by Scott Carpenter All Rights Are Reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. First electronic publication: July 2008 Dare to Love Jaci Burton Dedication To all the ironworkers, the “cowboys of the sky” who risk their lives to construct the beautiful buildings rising high above the skyline, you have my admiration and my awe. And especially to my husband, Charlie, who’s one of them. Dare to Love Chapter One How could a man of the twenty-first century think he could arrange a marriage for his daughter? Was he insane? Then again, it was her father she was talking about, and Raymond Fairchild was in a league all his own. “Certifiable, that’s what he is. My father has completely lost it. Thinking he can marry me off like this is the freakin’ eighteenth century or something.” Lucy Fairchild stormed the sidewalk with her relentless pace, kicking at the rocks in her path. She knew she was talking to herself, but didn’t care. Not that anyone could hear her with all the noisy construction going on. She ignored the sounds of jackhammers and maneuvering cranes. Coupled with the daily mix of trolley cars and traffic forever permeating San Francisco’s financial district, the sounds were just more white noise in an ever-busy city. Besides, her mind still whirled from the argument she’d just had with her father. Raymond Fairchild may be the president of one of the city’s most prestigious law firms, but that didn’t give him the right to control her life. Right. Like that had ever stopped him from trying to control and otherwise lead her around as if she were too stupid to make her own decisions. She’d always gone along with him before. One, because he was her father and she loved him, and two, sometimes it was easier to do as he asked so he’d quit hounding her. Typically his machinations were harmless. www.samhainpublishing.com 5 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] |