Tears mingled with the rain falling on her face. “But I don’t look or feel like a bride.”
He smiled faintly. “You will. I guarantee it.”
His lips met hers … and the moment merged with greater intensity than the remaining flames. They were oblivious to the downpour, the neighing horses, the shouting voices.
A short distance away Ambrose said to Keno, “The Lord is good to us this night, Keno, my lad. Eden is safe. She’s with Rafe. The rain is putting the fire out and keeping it from spreading. Not all is ashes! Out of what is left they will be sure to build again.”
“From the looks of things, Doc Bolton’s marriage next week won’t be the only one. You’re going to be busy, Uncle Ambrose.”
Ambrose smiled tiredly as the light began to dawn in the eastern sky.
“Looks to me, lad, like I may be attending to three weddings. And the first one may be right here on Hanalei, today.”
Keno looked over at Rafe, who was drawing Eden up onto her feet and then embracing her again. From the way Miss Green Eyes was holding on to him and returning his kiss, Keno was sure Ambrose was right.
THE END OF BOOK TWO
Read more about Eden and Rafe, Candace
and Keno, Molokai, and the Revolution
in book three of The Dawn of Hawaii series.
DID YOU READ BOOK ONE IN THE DAWN OF HAWAII SERIES?
THE SPOILS OF EDEN
The waves lap dangerously close to the abandoned baby—abandoned by the Molokai leper colony of the late 1800s.
That baby will be at the center of an alternately tense and bittersweet romantic struggle between Eden Derrington and Rafe Easton. Eden and Rafe are in love, but Baby Kip may very well endanger their future together.
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TEXAS TRAILS SERIES
The Texas Trails series covers snippets of Texas history from 1845 to 1896, seen through the lens of enduring love that springs up in one Texas family, the Morgans.
LONE STAR TRAIL (1845-1846)
Judson Morgan’s father died for Texas’s freedom during the war for independence. So when the Society for the Protection of German Immigrants attempts to colonize a New Germany in his country, he takes a stand against them.
CAPTIVE TRAIL (1858)
On his first run as a driver for the mail company, Ned Bright comes across a woman who is nearly dead from exposure and dehydration. He takes her to a mission outpost and soon discovers her true identity.
THE LONG TRAIL HOME (1865)
When Riley Morgan returns after fighting in the War between the States, he takes a job at the Wilcox School for Blind Children just to get by. He keeps his heart closed off but a pretty blind woman threatens to steal it.
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