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by Nora Roberts

“But I’d have fall maintenance, tree planting. I’d have—”

  “We’d wait, take a honeymoon in the winter. Slow season. We can go to Aruba.”

  She had to laugh. “That’s pretty damn clever of you.”

  “I’m not stupid either. Life stopped, Darby,” he told her, and traced a finger over the tattoo on the back of her neck. “Let’s not waste a minute of it now that it started again.”

  “You saved my life with a baseball. I want that ball. I want to put it in a display box, keep it in the office I’m going to make out of one of the spare rooms. Once I decide which one suits me best.”

  She framed his face. “Look at us. Black eyes and bruises. We’re a freaking set. Labor Day weekend.” She touched her lips lightly to his. “Deal.”

  “You can seal a deal better than that.”

  “I’m not finished yet,” she said, pressing a hand to his chest to hold him off. “If we’re serious about making a family, about having kids, one of us has to learn to cook.”

  He eyed her. “We can flip for it. Say, heads I learn, tails you learn.”

  “Rock, paper, scissors.”

  “Two out of three.”

  “You’re on.”

  After, when she laid her head on his shoulder, he told himself learning to cook couldn’t be that hard.

  “One night a week is pizza night,” he decided. “Frozen or delivery.”

  “That goes without saying.” She pressed a kiss to his cheek.

  Together, the dog snoring at their feet, they sat in the quiet, watched the sun set over the western hills and light its fire over the water.

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  CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Part One: The Cruelty of Lies

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Part Two: Homecomings

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Part Three: From Roots to Blooming

  Chapter Sixteen

  Chapter Seventeen

  Chapter Eighteen

  Chapter Nineteen

  Chapter Twenty

  Chapter Twenty-One

  Part Four: Healing Truths

  Chapter Twenty-Two

  Chapter Twenty-Three

  Chapter Twenty-Four

  Chapter Twenty-Five

  Chapter Twenty-Six

  Chapter Twenty-Seven

  Chapter Twenty-Eight

  Chapter Twenty-Nine

  Chapter Thirty

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  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

  UNDER CURRENTS Copyright © 2019 by Nora Roberts. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Publishing Group, 120 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10271.

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  Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

  Names: Roberts, Nora, author.

  Title: Under currents / Nora Roberts.

  Description: First edition. | New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2018055444 | ISBN 9781250207098 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250246776 (international, sold outside the U.S., subject to rights availability) | ISBN 9781250213273 (ebook)

  Classification: LCC PS3568.O243 U48 2019|DDC 813 /.54—dc23

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  First U.S. Edition: July 2019

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