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  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Books by Elizabeth Goddard
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. ONE
  8. TWO
  9. THREE
  10. FOUR
  11. FIVE
  12. SIX
  13. SEVEN
  14. EIGHT
  15. NINE
  16. TEN
  17. ELEVEN
  18. TWELVE
  19. THIRTEEN
  20. FOURTEEN
  21. FIFTEEN
  22. SIXTEEN
  23. SEVENTEEN
  24. EIGHTEEN
  25. NINETEEN
  26. TWENTY
  27. TWENTY-ONE
  28. TWENTY-TWO
  29. TWENTY-THREE
  30. TWENTY-FOUR
  31. TWENTY-FIVE
  32. TWENTY-SIX
  33. TWENTY-SEVEN
  34. TWENTY-EIGHT
  35. TWENTY-NINE
  36. THIRTY
  37. THIRTY-ONE
  38. THIRTY-TWO
  39. THIRTY-THREE
  40. THIRTY-FOUR
  41. THIRTY-FIVE
  42. THIRTY-SIX
  43. THIRTY-SEVEN
  44. THIRTY-EIGHT
  45. THIRTY-NINE
  46. FORTY
  47. FORTY-ONE
  48. FORTY-TWO
  49. FORTY-THREE
  50. FORTY-FOUR
  51. FORTY-FIVE
  52. FORTY-SIX
  53. FORTY-SEVEN
  54. FORTY-EIGHT
  55. FORTY-NINE
  56. FIFTY
  57. FIFTY-ONE
  58. FIFTY-TWO
  59. FIFTY-THREE
  60. FIFTY-FOUR
  61. FIFTY-FIVE
  62. FIFTY-SIX
  63. FIFTY-SEVEN
  64. FIFTY-EIGHT
  65. FIFTY-NINE
  66. SIXTY
  67. SIXTY-ONE
  68. SIXTY-TWO
  69. SIXTY-THREE
  70. SIXTY-FOUR
  71. SIXTY-FIVE
  72. A Preview of Book 2 in the ROCKY MOUNTAIN COURAGE Series
  73. Author’s Note
  74. Acknowledgments
  75. About the Author
  76. Back Ads
  77. Back Cover

Tears surged. Oh, God, please let Dad live. Please don’t let him die. How she hated the man who stood over her now, who had disrupted her life from afar all these years. But she couldn’t hold on to hate. Somehow, she had to let it go.

“It was you, wasn’t it? You’re the one who destroyed the memorial. You targeted Mom’s plaque.” As if at this juncture, any of that even mattered, but she had to know the truth—all of it.

“Sorry to disappoint you, but that wasn’t me. Now get up. We have to go.”

“You’re a sick, sick man.” If held on to long enough, bitterness, grudges, and regrets created monsters.

She’d already lost too much on this mountain, and now she was here with a monster.

SIXTY-TWO

Discarding his sling, Jack ignored the pain and climbed onto Lilly, one of Owen’s horses.

When he’d heard the crash on the mountain, his heart felt as though it had been ripped from his chest. But he’d learned how to push past the debilitating pain of loss, and he would again in order to find Terra.

She couldn’t die like this. She had to be alive. He would hang on to that hope. It was the only thing that kept him going.

The pain he felt over Sarah’s death and his inability to get to her in time clawed at him but also drove him forward. Compelled him to find Terra, the woman he . . . loved.

Owen groaned. “I had no idea he was going to take her, or I never would have rigged a slow oil leak to cause engine failure in his helo. I returned early from a meeting in Bozeman, so he wasn’t expecting me. I simply wanted to stop a madman from destroying more lives. I didn’t think I could get into the house to get my gun without drawing Marcus’s—”

Jack held up his hand, signaling for Owen to stop. “You didn’t know. It’s okay.”

“I only meant to prevent him from flying away and escaping.”

“There’s no time for regret. We can hope they survived. Let’s go find her. Let’s get our Terra back.”

After he and Nathan had left Ruby’s, they headed straight for Robert Vandine’s ranch while Jack tried to reach both Terra and Robert. Neither of them responded. Jack and Nathan were already on their way when they got the message from dispatch—Owen had called to report trouble.