John peered over Trudy’s shoulder, then picked up the broken frame. He glanced back at Elizabeth. Without a word he came back to the bed and set them, face down, on her lap.
“I don’t understand—” Her eyes latched onto a worn scroll poking from the broken frame. With shaking fingers, she pulled it from its hidden slot and handed it to John. “My other hand does not seem to be working,” she whispered.
He accepted it with a short nod and unrolled it. After a stunned silence, he said, “I think we’ve found your legacy. Perhaps all of your father’s tales weren’t so tall.”
“If this is what it appears, then you are the proud owner of one of Francis Drake’s lost maps.” John looked at her with a tender smile. “You are a rich woman in her own right. You’ve no need for me then.”
“I’ve need for you. You and Trudy.” Her gaze landed out the window, seeing Papa from a time when she was Trudy’s young age of eight. They sat around the dinner table, a happy trio, her, Mama and him. Papa was in especially buoyant spirits. He’d come home that afternoon, swung Mama off her feet into a whirl that had her laughing like a schoolgirl. Within days, he’d become nervous, irritable. Frightened even. She had no wish to suffer the same fate. “Perhaps it can be sold. The proceeds used to feed Union troops.”
He sank down beside her again, touched his lips to hers. “Perhaps,” he agreed. “Just as long as you remain at my side.”
“Forever. Forever more, my love.”
Other Books
Cinderella Series
The Wronged Princess – book I (Dec 2013)
The Unlikely Heroine – book ii (Nov 2013)
The Surprising Enchantress – book iii (Dec 2013)
Scrimshaw Doll Series
The English Lily (Jan 2013)
The Color of Betrayal (Jun 2012)
Bloomington Series
Quotable (Nov 2013)
Maybe It’s You (Oct 2012)
Lies That Bind (Dec 2013)
Martini Club 4
Reckless (Feb 2015)
About the Author
Kathy L Wheeler, author of both contemporary and historical romance was born in Presque Isle, Maine. She grew up in Dallas, Texas but migrated to Boulder then Longmont, Colorado where she attended high school. Her college degree from the University of Central Oklahoma is a BA in Management Information Systems and vocal music minor.
She is an active member of the Oklahoma Romance Writers. Kathy also belongs to The Beau Monde, a historical Regency chapter, and the Dallas Area Romance Authors. She loves the NFL and holds NBA Thunder season basketball tickets, and Celebrity Attractions Broadway season tickets as she also adores musical theater. Reading and writing, of course—and just to round things out, and to scratch the singing itch—karaoke.
Kathy lives in Edmond, Oklahoma with her musically-talented, attorney husband, Al. They have one grown daughter (who recently had her first baby) and one bossy cat, Carly, who acts as if she was the rescuer rather than the rescue-ee!
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright
To Love a Spy
The Lieutenant's Promise
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Epilogue
About the Author
Secrets and Lies
Dedication
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Readers
Author's Bio
Blood for Ink
Dedication
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
About the Author
Anna and the Conductor
Dedication
Dear Reader
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
About the Author
Love, Lies, Traitors and Spies
Dedication
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Books by Melissa Lynne Blue
About the Author
The Mapmaker's Wife
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Other Books
About the Author