by Karen Kay
“I shouldn’t be doing this.”
“I shouldn’t either…” The words dissolved against his mouth.
She’d been kissed before, but never like this. His lips were soft, his touch gentle. His tenderness aroused her faster than hot passion would have done. She pressed closer to him and molded her mouth more precisely over his, shivering with delicious excitement as he held her face in his hands and savored her.
“God.” He broke the kiss, but barely, his mouth hovering within an inch of hers. “I wondered how you would taste.”
She smiled, her gaze drifting to his mouth. “Really?”
“Hell, yeah.” He nuzzled her cheek with his lips. “But we have to stop. I have to think about finding a wife, much as I’d like a tumble with you.”
She stiffened as his words cut through the desire that tangled her thoughts. For a moment she had actually thought— “What did you say?”
“I said I’d sure enjoy a little slap and tickle with you, sassy girl, but my future wife might not like it.”
“You low-down skunk!” Stung to her feminine core, she jerked away from him. “So I’m good enough for a romp in the hay, but not good enough to be on that list of yours? Have you been listening to the gossips, Mr. Donovan?”
“I don’t care about gossip.” He moved to brush a strand of hair out of her face, but Sarah turned from his touch.
“Then why do you consider me good enough to bed, but not good enough to be on your precious list?” Passion flared into anger, all the better to dull the pain in her heart. “I work hard at my newspaper, and I love children.”
He leaned close. “You know good and well why you’re not on the list, Sassy.”
“My name is Sarah.”
“Sassy suits you better. Truth is, you’re prettier than an Arizona sunset, but you’re too ornery for your own good, and you love that damned paper more than you’ll ever love a man. I need a woman who puts me before anything else. Hell, your husband would have to lay down on the printing press just to get your attention!”
She slapped him. Stunned at her own action, she could only stare as he raised a hand to rub his cheek.
“See what I mean?” He smiled, but the derision in his expression seemed directed more toward himself than her. “We mix like fire and oil, sassy girl. That kind of explosion makes for hot loving, but it doesn’t fit into a marriage.”
What a fool! “Good evening, Mr. Donovan. I hope you find what you’re looking for—though I can’t help but pity her.” Without waiting for a response, Sarah left him standing there in the dark.
Gray Hawk’s Lady
Karen Kay
Different worlds, one heart.
Blackfoot Warrior, Book 1
When Lady Genevieve Rohan joins her father in the farthest reaches of the American West, she expects to bring a bit of genteel English charm to his dry, academic existence. Instead, she finds her father desperately ill, and it’s up to her to finish his study of the Indian and publish his work—or face the wrath of his creditors.
Her troubles mount when the men hired to capture a member of the Blackfoot tribe don’t bring her a docile maid to study. They present her with a magnificent warrior—proud, outrageously handsome and simmering with fury at the loss of his freedom.
The white woman is beautiful beyond compare, but Gray Hawk can’t think past his plan to exact revenge against this meddling foreigner. It’s ridiculously easy to escape, then turn the tables and take her captive. When anger turns to passion, then to love, he embarks on a new quest. To claim the stubborn, red-headed vixen as his own.
Yet as their hearts strain toward each other, pride conspires to pull them apart…unless they can each find a way for their hearts to become one.
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Warning: Contains a raging, simmering love, consumed by its fire and destined to explode at any moment.
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Gray Hawk’s Lady
Copyright © 2012 by Karen Kay
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Original Publication: August 1997
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Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgment
Note to the Reader
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
About the Author
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