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Monday Puzzler, Oct. 11, 2010
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Same here...
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I don't have the faintest idea, but as usual, I can't wait to add it to the TBR pile. :)
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I've been watching the Monday puzzlers for a couple months and never know them, but I know this one!! She is one of my top 5 favorite authors :)
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Wylene, I read the excerpt to her new one too, and found it to be pretty interesing! I've seen it being released in Dec. AND in Feb. Do you know which is correct?
this sounds familiar but im pretty sure i havnt read this
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This is one of my favorite authors and favorite people. Monica, you have so many wonderful books by this author ahead of you! Enjoy!
The release date of her next book is December 14th.
And just think, this one is still on shelves now!
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the answer is..... Drum roll please...
THE DEVIL WEARS PLAID by Teresa Medeiros! I highly recommend it!!!
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I also thought she was the author, but I haven't read this book yet.
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Dls! Have you read this one yet? I can't wait to get her other previous books!
Cindy, read it! Lol!
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“I said I’d come for your bride, ___________, not that I’d come to kill her.”
_________ read his intent a heartbeat before anyone else in the abbey. It was there in the squaring of his unshaven jaw, the tension that rippled through his muscular thighs, the way his powerful fists wrapped around the beaten leather of the reins.
Yet all she could do was stand rooted to the flagstones, paralyzed by the raw determination in his narrowed gaze.
Everything seemed to happen at once. _________ dug his heals into the horse’s flanks. The beast lurched forward, eyes rolling wildly, nostrils flaring. It came charging down the aisle of the abbey, heading straight for _________. Her mother let out a bloodcurdling scream, then slumped into a dead faint. The minister dove behind the alter, his black robes flapping behind him like the wings of a crow. __________flung her arms up over her face, bracing herself to be trampled beneath those flashing hooves.
At the last possible second, the horse veered to the left while ___________ leaned to the right. He wrapped one powerful arm around ________’s waist and swept her into the air, tossing her belly-down across his lap as if she weighed no more than a sack of wormy potatoes and knocking the air clear out of her. She was still struggling to catch her breath when he wheeled the horse in a tight circle, forcing the beast up on its hind legs for a dizzying pirouette. As those deadly hooves pawed at the air, __________ sucked in a breath that was sure to be her last as she waited for the horse to topple over backward and crush them both.
But her captor has other ides. He sawed at the reins with brute strength, using sheer mastery to force the creature to succumb to his will. The beast let out an earsplitting whinny. It’s front hooves cam crashing down, its iron shoes striking sparks off the flagstones.
___________’s strong voice carried, even over the shrill shrieks and frantic shouts of alarm echoing off the vaulted ceiling. But his words were meant for the earl alone. “If you want her back unharmed, _________, you’ll have to pay and pay dearly! For your own sins and the sins o’ your fathers. I’ll not return her to you until you return to me what’s rightfully mine.”
Then he snapped the reins on the horse’s back, sending the beast charging back down the aisle of the abbey. They thundered through the doorway and past the crooked gravestones of the churchyard, each of the horse’s long, powerful strides carrying ________ farther away from any hope of rescue.