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This week's feature brings us the very talented and delightful Lorrie Farrelly. Lorrie brings us an excerpt from her latest novel. So grab a cup of coffee, sit back, relax, and enjoy this treat from. . .
Author Lorrie Farrelly
TERMS OF SURRENDER, by Lorrie Farrelly
SYNOPSIS
The War Between the States not only destroyed all
Michael Cantrell loved, it left the young, former Confederate cavalry officer
without faith or hope, a solitary, haunted man trying to escape his demons in the
vast western frontier. Then, one spring day along the Wind River, he finds
himself suddenly in the thick of another life-and-death struggle – Annie
Devlin’s war.
Desperate to hang on to her ranch and her life,
waylaid by gunmen hired by a powerful rancher who covets her land, Annie and
her young brother, Robbie, fight a furious, rapidly losing battle for their
lives.
When all seems lost, into the fray steps a
cold-eyed, steel-nerved stranger – Michael Cantrell – who saves Annie and
Robbie, but is himself grievously wounded.
With Annie’s care, Michael recovers not only his
strength but a portion of his embittered soul as well. Fighting his powerful
feelings for her, convinced he has nothing to give, Michael determines to stay
with the Devlins only long enough to ensure their safety against the treachery
that would destroy them.
Reluctantly, Michael, who for years has known
only loss, allies himself with a stubborn, courageous young woman who will take
his heart by storm and test the limit of his honor, his mettle – and his
passion.
A finalist for the prestigious Orange Rose Award,
TERMS OF SURRENDER takes the reader on a stirring adventure that is also a
heartfelt, emotional journey.
Excerpt from TERMS OF
SURRENDER, by Lorrie Farrelly
Copyright by Lorrie
Farrelly
The wounded man's grip was
like iron. Annie couldn't imagine where his strength was coming from. She could
feel his whole body trembling against her, and the bandages wrapped around his
shoulder and chest were soaked with sweat and fresh blood.
"No!" he cried,
glaring at her with wide, wild eyes, feral and ferocious in the candlelight.
"You can't ... have him! I won’t … let him … die again! No! Gavin!"
"Captain Cantrell! Michael!"
Unable to wrench his hands
from their grip on her small brother, Annie shifted and took Michael's face in
her hands, her fingers spread along both sides of his hard, sweat-slick jaw.
Turning his head, she forced him to look into her eyes.
"Michael!" she
commanded. "Listen! You must let go! He's not Gavin!"
A flicker of confused
uncertainty came into the man's eyes, and the huge, black, dilated pupils
seemed to constrict slightly, giving Annie a glimpse of deep blue irises.
"Yes, that's right, that's
right. Good. Now listen to me, listen to me." Her words, and the gentle
stroking of her fingers, became fluid, hypnotic.
And finally, Michael
listened. He could feel the warmth of her breath on his cheek, and for a
single, brief moment all pain disappeared, replaced abruptly by a great hitch
in his chest. He was dead certain his heart had stopped.
"Are you an
angel?" he whispered.
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