The
past is her future, the future, her past, but can she save an innocent man’s
life before
history repeats itself?
As long as Selena Tillman dreams of her ancestor, Mary, who
disappeared without a trace in 1871, she’ll never find peace. As long as she
dreams of the half-Native American army scout accused of killing Mary, she’ll never
find love. Hoping to end the dreams and learn the
truth, Selena goes to Texas where Mary and the scout died and sees more than
ghosts. She sees a tornado kill Mary in real time before it jumps to the
twenty-first century to pull Selena into its vortex and send her back to the
nineteenth century. Selena believes she’s fated to prove Dylan’s innocence and
save his life, but Dylan isn’t just the man of her dreams; he’s her destiny.
Fed up with the army, bigotry, and
women—especially white women, Captain Dylan Casey dedicates himself to solving
the mystery of Mary’s disappearance, proving his innocence, and trying to stop
a war between the whites and the Indians. Then Mary’s cousin shows up, claiming
a tornado killed Mary. Dylan doesn’t trust Selena, but she’s his only ally in
Canyon Creek. Yet despite their common goal, growing mutual attraction, and a
Comanche shaman’s prophecy of a white woman who will change his destiny and
foretell the fate of the Indian Nation, Dylan refuses to take a chance on
another spoiled, white woman—until fate changes his mind.
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Captain Casey stepped
closer and raked his eyes over her, taking in her disheveled appearance. With
surprising gentleness, he swept her hair from her forehead. When his fingers
touched her flesh, her breath froze in her lungs, and every muscle in her body
coiled. Shocked by the electricity in that brief touch, her knees buckled, and
she sank back down to the sofa. When he hunkered down in front of her and took
her chin in his strong hand, her breath caught in her throat.
“You really are hurt.
What happened?” The deep timbre of his softly spoken question was like the man
himself—sexy.
She met his probing gaze
before lowering her eyes to the floor. “My horse threw me and ran off. I don’t
know what spooked him, and I don’t know where he is.”
He rose to his feet and
curled his lip. “Where are your trunks?”
“They’re due to arrive
from Pecos later this week,” she said, unable to meet his gaze.
“Why would you leave
your trunks in Pecos and travel alone on horseback? Why not wait at the hotel
for the next stage to Canyon Creek?”
She was nervous enough
without him towering over her, so she rose to her feet and forced herself to
hold his intimidating gaze. “I felt a lot safer taking my chances on the road
dressed as a man than I did staying in some skeezy hotel in Pecos where everyone
knew I was a woman traveling alone.”
It was a reasonable
explanation. She was wearing jeans in a time when women didn’t even wear
slacks, and she had just shown up without taking the stage. He might have
actually believed her if it hadn’t been for her modern vernacular.
He raked his eyes over
her with a quirked mouth and skeptical lift of his brows. “You couldn’t fool a
blind man in those clothes, and no man would wear an undershirt that color. You
even smell like a woman,” he added, sniffing the air around her neck. When his
nose grazed the tender flesh behind her ear, goose bumps raced down her arms.
Award winning author, Lilly Gayle, is a wife, mother of two grown daughters, a grandmother, and a breast cancer survivor. She lives in North Carolina with her husband. When not working as an x-ray technologist and mammographer, Lilly writes paranormal and historical romances. She is the newsletter editor and VP of Communications for her local RWA chapter, Heart of Carolina Romance Writers.
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Historical Romances by Lilly Gayle
Wholesale
Husband
Slightly
Tarnished
Slightly
Noble
Helpless
Hearts
Wilder
Hearts
Winds
of Time
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Out
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Embrace
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