Amelia A Novel [Paperback]

Amelia, independent and headstrong, curbed her ways against her father's anger. He was determined that she would marry into the Cullhane family. But it was the fierce gaze of King Cullhane who haunted her mind. King wanted her all right, but he didn't trust her. And Amelia knew that the one thing she couldn't deny was the raging need inside of her that could only be assuaged by King's savage embrace....The prolific author of more than one hundred books,Diana Palmergot her start as a newspaper reporter. ANew York Timesbestselling author voted one of the top ten romance writers in America, she has a gift for telling the most sensual tales with charm and humor. Palmer lives with her family in Cornelia, Georgia.

Chapter One

 

Date: 1900

 

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melia Howard loved the desert country of west Texas. It might not be as green and lush as the eastern part of the state, and there were dust storms and coyotes, wolves, and rattlesnakes to cope with, but it had a fascination all its own. Occasionally there were bandidos who raided across the Mexican border, which was just over the Rio Grande—Rio Bravo del Norte as the Mexicans called it—from El Paso. There were no Indian raids; there hadn’t been any for twenty years or more. Still, something was always happening on the border, and Amelia worried constantly about her brother, Quinn, who was a Texas Ranger. Border problems often meant Ranger intervention.

 

It had been something of a shock for Atlanta-born and -bred Amelia to find herself in west Texas. When her youngest brothers had died two years ago of typhoid fever, her father, Hartwell Howard, had suffered a head injury in a buggy accident trying to get the doctor to come and see them. After that, he suddenly changed. His personality became violent, and he had rages that were unbelievable.

 

Quinn had gone away to fight in the Spanish-American War and then had settled in ElS€