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    Her Beguiling Bride: Beguiled, #2
    Her Beguiling Bride: Beguiled, #2
    Her Beguiling Bride: Beguiled, #2
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    Her Beguiling Bride: Beguiled, #2

    By Paisley Smith

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    Three years have passed since Isabelle Holloway gave her heart to Alice O’Malley, the brash woman Union soldier left on the doorstep of Isabelle’s Georgia plantation. Now Reconstruction Era taxes threaten their home, and Isabelle must decide between the female lover whose touch sets her flesh and soul ablaze, or a cold marriage to a wealthy man and an even colder bed. 

    In hopes of saving the plantation, Isabelle and Alice travel to Savannah where doors close at every turn. Until Alice tenders a scandalous proposal that could cost them everything...or offer them the love of a lifetime.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPaisley Smith
    Release dateOct 6, 2015
    ISBN9781519900326
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      Her Beguiling Bride - Paisley Smith

      Her Beguiling Bride

      by

      Paisley Smith

      www.PaisleySmith.net

      Her Beguiling Bride

      Copyright © December 2014 by Paisley Smith

      All rights reserved. This copy is intended for the original purchaser of this e-book ONLY. No part of this e-book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without prior written permission. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author's rights. Purchase only authorized editions.

      Cover Tricia Pickyme Schmitt

      Printed in the United States of America

      This e-book is a work of fiction. While reference might be made to actual historical events or existing locations, the names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Acknowledgements

      As always, I’d like to thank my wonderful critique partner, fab author Naima Simone, for helping me bring Alice and Isabelle to life. I owe a special debt of gratitude to my fabulous cover artist and friend, Tricia Pickyme Schmitt. Thanks is not a big enough word.

      Chapter One

      February 1867

      You can’t keep up this…thing…with Alice forever. Granny Page lowered herself into one of the porch rockers.

      Ignoring Granny, Isabelle never tore her gaze from the red-earthed fields where Alice walked with Uncle Hewlett, Mose, and Chester, one of the field hands who’d returned after the war. Isabelle sighed, her tight stays preventing her from taking a deep enough breath.

      She pursed her lips. Alice had been with her since 1864, and while theirs was not a conventional relationship by any standards, Isabelle found comfort in it.

      More than comfort.

      Isabelle loved Alice more than she’d ever loved anyone in her life.

      The barren winter landscape faded. The rows of withered cotton stalks standing stubbornly in the furrowed, red clay. The bleak gray hues of the trees and barn. It all blurred until the only thing visible was the image of Isabelle’s lover looming in her mind’s eye.

      Alice.

      Isabelle’s stomach grew taut at the memory of Alice’s fingers thoroughly exploring her sensitive flesh earlier that morning. The muscles in Isabelle’s thighs tightened, and she shifted her weight from one foot to the other. The movement only enhanced her need.

      It had been three years since the Yankees had abandoned Alice O’Malley, dressed in a Zouave uniform, in Isabelle’s bed. Isabelle and Granny had nursed the wounded she-soldier back to health, but Isabelle had been unprepared for the peculiar bond that had formed between her and the strange, gamine Yankee girl.

      Alice had offered her strength, physical solace, acceptance.

      Love.

      Alice protected her from brigands, had made sure they’d all had food in their bellies when most of Clayton County, Georgia had done without. She’d saved both hers and Granny Page’s home from fires set by Sherman’s men, and she’d single-handedly rescued Uncle Hewlett and Mose when the Federal Army seized them as contraband slaves.

      Since the war’s end, Isabelle and Alice had both fallen into a very comfortable routine of working together to run the vast plantation before falling into bed at night and silently fulfilling deeper, darker needs. Everyone in the community respected Alice, and had turned a blind eye to the illicit relationship between the two women. Isabelle had never even been confronted about it.

      Until now.

      Biting her bottom lip in memory, Isabelle blinked her reverie away before turning to Granny, whose brow wrinkled in expectation of an answer to a question she’d never asked.

      I don’t have a whole lot of choice in the matter with Grayson gone, Isabelle told her. Her brother, Grayson, had run off to join the Confederate Army after the Yankees murdered their father. He’d been captured at the Battle of Nashville and sent off to prison at Camp Douglas where he died days before he was scheduled to be released.

      Isabelle’s gaze swept the family plot at the edge of the woods where a stone had been erected to Grayson’s memory, even though his body lay in a mass grave up North. The stone stood next to the grave of Caroline, their poor afflicted mother, who had passed away shortly after the war’s end.

      Alice had been by Isabelle’s side the entire time, helping to nurse Caroline, and offering unspoken comfort, as well as a shoulder to cry on.

      Granny wet her thin lips with the tip of her tongue.

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