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  He chuckled beneath her ear. “Perhaps someday we’ll return to showcase our sculptures.”

  “Our sculptures?”

  “Mm-hmm,” he murmured as he tipped her chin up to take her lips with his in a soft, but possessive kiss. “An artist is nothing without his subject. And you, my love, will always be the subject of my work.”

  –The End–

  Epilogue

  Christmas 1870, Boston

  “Stunning,” the man on his left said.

  “So sensual, yet elegant,” the older woman agreed beside him. “How ever did you capture the essence of the nymph and her mate, Mr. Barclay?”

  Michael reached forward, taking the woman’s arthritic hand and slid it over the stone—down the back of the nymph, over her rounded derriere to the tops of her thighs—remembering the hours he’d spent carving the stone he and Bella had hauled out of the river that day years earlier.

  “Simple, Mrs. Jones. She was always there. I could see her in my mind and knew just how she looked. I listened to her and unlocked her passion. She did the rest.”

  “Oh, my,” the art patroness said. The air around her stirred, the rustle of her hand fan fluttering quickly.

  Michael smiled and released her hand, leaving it on the stone at the junction of the nymph and her lover’s bodies for her to continue to explore the piece. Using the cane to tap out a path, he moved in the direction of his wife’s voice as she talked with her father. Stepping up behind her, he slid his hand around her hip to her rounded belly where their child grew.

  “Hello, love,” he whispered into her hair then planted a kiss on her head, just above her ear.

  “What did you say to Mrs. Jones to have her blushing like a schoolgirl?” Bella asked with a laugh in her voice.

  “I simply explained my process of unlocking the subject from the stone. She seems to have found a passion for such pieces.”

  “Such a salesman, you are. Too bad that piece isn’t for sale,” Bella’s father said.

  “It might be the cornerstone for the exhibition, Richard, but it’s the centerpiece to our lives together. It will always remain in the family.” He smiled down at his wife and could feel her smile in return.

  “I always knew you had skill as a painter,” Richard Taylor continued, “but I never knew how deep your talent ran. The sculptures you’ve exhibited here today will set the art world on its ear, young man. I couldn’t be more proud of you.”

  “Thank you, sir, but I couldn’t have done it without your daughter’s help.” He pulled her closer, smiling down at her. “Without Bella’s touch I never would’ve found my passion.”

  Author Bio

  Suzanne Ferrell

  Suzanne discovered romance novels in her aunt's hidden stash one summer as a teenager. From that moment on she knew two things: she loved romance stories and someday she'd be writing her own. Her love for romances has only grown over the years. It took her a number of years and a secondary career as a nurse to finally start writing her own stories.

  A double finalist in the Romance Writer's of America's 2006 Golden Heart with her manuscripts, KIDNAPPED and HUNTED (Romantic Suspense), Suzanne has also won The Beacon Unpublished and the CTRWA's contests in the erotica categories with her book, The Surrender Of Lacy Morgan.

  Suzanne's sexy stories, whether they be her steamy Western eroticas, her on the edge of your seat romantic suspense, or the heart warming small town stories, will keep you thinking about her characters long after their Happy Ever After is achieved. Visit Suzanne Ferrell’s website at www.suzanneferrell.com

  Other Books by Suzanne Ferrell

  Kidnapped

  FBI Agent Jake Carlisle is in deep trouble. He’s been shot and if he can’t get help fast, two lives will be lost—his and that of the young witness whom he’s sworn to protect. Desperate, on the run from both the police and the Russian Mafia, he kidnaps a nurse from a hospital parking lot.

  ER nurse Samantha Edgars has been living in an emotional vacuum since the death of her daughter. Mentally and physically exhausted following a difficult shift, she’s suddenly jolted from her stupor when she’s bound and gagged, then tossed into the back of her car. Forced to tend a bleeding FBI agent and his injured witness, she’s terrified. But Samantha quickly learns the rogue agent and orphaned boy need more than just her professional skills. Danger is bearing down on them, and she must learn to trust Jake—and her heart— if they’re all going to survive.

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  Loved it! Five Stars

  "...very entertaining and well written. Jake, Sami and Nicky were great main characters who supported the plot very well.

  If you're looking for a nice and relaxed read I can recommend this one to you." - Book lover (Athens, Greece)

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  "This story is one of the better books that I have read in awhile. The interaction between Jake and Sami are electrifying without being outwardly mushy. The plot and interactions molded so well. I will be buying other stories from this author. I found the three main characters and their back-stories both heartbreaking and touching. I highly recommend this story! You won't be disappointed." - Amazon reader (Pennsylvania)

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  Hunted

  In one fiery explosion Katie Myers' witness protection cover is blown. Unable to trust the Marshals who've been responsible for her safety, she’s on the run from the cult leader she put on death row. In desperation she forces a near stranger at gunpoint to help her hide. By-the-book patrolman Matt Edgars is shocked when the woman he's come to rescue points a gun at him and demands he help her leave a crime scene. The stark terror in Katie’s beautiful eyes has him breaking rules for the first time in his career. With a hit man on their trail, Matt must break down the walls Katie has built to guard the secrets of her past. If not the cult leader will fulfill his prophecy and take the one woman Matt has ever loved to the grave with him.

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  Hunted

  Close To Home

  Emma Lewis has a lot on her plate. The single mother of two precocious twin boys and an aging mother who is having trouble getting through each day, the last thing Emma needs is a man in her life, especially a doctor. So when the town’s doctor goes on vacation and his handsome nephew takes over, Emma is shocked to not only find him standing in her bedroom, but accusing her of being a neglectful parent.

  Clint Preston came to Weston for the year to fill in as the town doc while his uncle took a long needed vacation. He also needed a sense of peace and calm to try to find his passion for medicine burned out by long shifts in an urban hospital’s ER. Angered to find two boys in his clinic with broken wrists and no accompanying parent, he is determined to confront their mother, ignoring his nurse’s cryptic words that things aren’t always what they appear. The feisty redhead he meets quickly dispels his belief that she’s a neglectful mother, but he can see her situation is direr than she wishes to face and finds himself volunteering to help care for her sons and the remodeling of her home.

  As Emma and Clint begin to forge a relationship among the slightly off-beat characters that inhabit Weston a menace from Emma’s past threatens her and her sons. Clint and Emma join forces to prevent the loss of either boy and the love they’ve discovered in each other’s arms.

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  Copyright

  Copyright © 2013 by Suzanne Ferrell

  Release date: Jan 2013

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  Table Of Contents

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Epilogue

  Author Bio

  Other Books by Suzanne Ferrell

  Copyright

  Table of Contents

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Epilogue

  Author Bio

  Other Books by Suzanne Ferrell Kidnapped

  Hunted

  Close To Home

  Copyright