“Please take me away from here,” Maxie Parrish silently prayed. Letter to Reader Title Page About the Author Dedication Acknowledgments Prologue Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Epilogue Copyright
“Please take me away from here,” Maxie Parrish silently prayed.
But she knew no rescue would be coming as her past walked steadily toward her.
She would recognize Kyle Hayden anywhere, anytime. By his stride, the shift of his shoulder... his sexy rocking hips.
“Is this the Wind Dancer Ranch, ma’am?”
“Yes, Kyle. It is.”
His head jerked up, his gaze narrow and piercing.
His eyes still held the same intensity, making her body talk when she wanted it to be silent.
And unfortunately, after all this time, he knew it.
“Hello, Max.”
The sound of his voice, deep as the ocean floor, sent tremors through her bloodstream. It didn’t help that he still looked good. The last time she’d seen him, he was cramming his gear into a marine green sea bag, expecting to marry her the next day before he shipped out. Don’t panic, she thought. He doesn’t know about the last seven years...or his daughter.
Dear Reader,
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Ultratalented author Mary Lynn Baxter kicks off November with her sultry Western style in Slow Talkin’ Texan, the story of a MAN OF THE MONTH whose strong desires collide with an independent lady—she’s silk to his denim, lace to his leather... and doing all she can to resist this irresistible tycoon. A smalltown lawman who rescues a “lost” beauty might just find his own Christmas bride in Jennifer Greene’s heartwarming Her Holiday Secret. Ladies, watch closely as a Thirty-Day Fiancé is transformed into a forever husband in Leanne Banks’s third book in THE RULEBREAKERS miniseries.
Don’t dare miss the intensity of an innocent wife trying to seduce her honor-bound husband in The Oldest Living Married Virgin, the latest in Maureen Child’s spectacular miniseries THE BACHELOR BATTALION. And when a gorgeous exmarine shows up at his old flame’s ranch to round up the “wife who got away,” he discovers a daughter he never knew in The Re-Enlisted Groom by Amy J. Fetzer. The Forbidden Bride-to-Be may be off-limits...but isn’t that what makes the beautiful heroine in Kathryn Taylor’s scandal-filled novel all the more tempting?
This November, Silhouette Desire is the place to live, love and lose yourself...to sensual romance. Enjoy!
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The Re-Enlisted Groom
Amy J. Fetzer
AMY J. FETZER
was born in New England and raised all over the world. She uses her experiences, along with bits and pieces of the diverse people she’s met, in creating the characters and settings for her novels. “Nobody’s safe,” she says. “There are heroes and heroines right in front of us, if we just take the time to look.” Married nineteen years to a United States Marine, and the mother of two sons, Amy covets the moments when she can curl up with a cup of cappuccino and a good book.
For
Maureen Child a.k.a. High Priestess of the Clan of the Plotting Goddesses To Baileys and coffee and sharing an ashtray. To skipping PAW just to chat. To emergency plot sessions and picking apart a hero’s psyche with a surgeon’s precision. For listening to my whining with patience and sympathy, then prodding me, in your oh-so-gentle way, to work harder for what I wanted. For shouting for joy when I finally get it, and getting mad at me when I didn’t. And mostly, for being the consummate professional and teaching me what it really means to write for a living.
Thanks, Moe
Prologue
Camp Pendleton, California
In five days Kyle and Maxie were going to be married.
In six days he was leaving for Desert Storm.
The possibility that he could lose her, his life and the only sense of belonging he’d felt since he was twelve hit Sergeant Kyle Hayden like a barrage of artillery. He tightened his arms around the woman he loved, knowing nothing could soften the news he’d always expected.
“This is so unfair,” she cried, her tears wetting his olive drab T-shirt.
“I know, baby, I know,” he soothed, brushing his mouth over her hair, her temple, inhaling and memorizing her lush scent. “But orders are orders.” He peppered kisses over her cheeks, tasting her tears, wishing he could erase them, yet even as she sobbed, something tugged hard inside him. No