One Last Weekend
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Suspended above the counter was Eliza’s matchbox Advent calendar, the fraying ends and middle of the supporting ribbon carefully taped into place.
A powerful yearning swept through Addie. She approached the calendar, ran her fingers lightly from one box to another. Her throat closed, and the tears she’d blinked away earlier came back with a vengeance.
“Oh, Eliza,” she whispered, “I’d give anything to see you again.”
Linda Lael Miller began her publishing career in 1983 at Pocket Books. Since then, Linda has successfully published historicals, contemporaries, paranormals, and thrillers before coming home, in a literal sense, and concentrating on novels with a Western flavor. For her devotion to her craft, the Romance Writers of America awarded her their prestigious Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.
Linda’s 2011 contemporary Creed Cowboy trilogy—A Creed In Stone Creek, Creed’s Honor and The Creed Legacy, released in March, June and July, respectively—each debuted in the number one position on the New York Times bestseller list. To learn more about Linda, please visit her at www.lindalaelmiller.com.