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LINDA LAEL MILLER’S
STUNNING FRONTIER NOVEL
Springwater
AND HER DELIGHTFUL NEW SERIES FROM
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SPRINGWATER SEASONS
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Rachel Savannah Miranda Jessica

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BANNER O’BRIEN
CORBIN’S FANCY
MEMORY’S EMBRACE
MY DARLING MELISSA
ANGELFIRE
DESIRE AND DESTINY
FLETCHER’S WOMAN
LAURALEE
MOONFIRE
WANTON ANGEL
WILLOW
PRINCESS ANNIE
THE LEGACY
TAMING CHARLOTTE
YANKEE WIFE
DANIEL’S BRIDE
LILY AND THE MAJOR
EMMA AND THE OUTLAW
CAROLINE AND THE RAIDER
PIRATES
KNIGHTS
MY OUTLAW
THE VOW
TWO BROTHERS:
THE LAWMAN & THE GUNSLINGER

She Stood Fast as Reeve Untied Her Camisole, and Then Peeled It Away from Her Flesh …

“Maggie,” he said, in a low and ragged voice, and then she felt Reeve’s breath on her face and instinctively she tilted her head back to greet his mouth with her own. His forceful but infinitely gentle hands entangled themselves in her hair and he kissed her …

As the soul-shattering kiss continued, Maggie felt the straining power of him and trembled for the want of it, even as she recoiled inwardly in fear.

Maggie was powerless to protest, much less flee, and when she felt herself being lowered to a soft bed, she offered no resistance. Reeve’s voice was thick, hoarse with needs Maggie couldn’t even begin to comprehend. “You’re a virgin, then, aren’t you, lass?”

Books by Linda Lad Miller

Title Page

Copyright Page

This book is a work of historical fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents relating to non-historical figures are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance of such non-historical incidents, places or figures to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

An Original Publication of POCKET BOOKS

POCKET BOOKS, a division of Simon & Schuster Inc.
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Copyright © 1988 by Linda Lael Miller

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address Pocket Books, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020

ISBN: 0-671-73770-8

First Pocket Books printing May 1988

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POCKET and colophon are registered trademarks of Simon & Schuster Inc.

Cover illustration by Morgan Kane
Border design by Marlene Moore

Printed in the U.S.A.

Dedication

For Crystal Harworth,
who taught me to hear
the sweet, mystical music that words make

Prologue

Dublin—September 1867

A DEFT FLIP OF JAMIE’S WRIST CAUSED THE GOLDEN WATCH to spin at the end of its chain. With a glint of triumph in his ice-blue eyes, he caught the gentleman’s time-piece in one grubby palm and grinned.