Love and Splendor: The Coltrane Saga, Book 5 (45 page)

He leaned forward and started looking through the papers. It was the end of the month, so tomorrow he’d have to go into town to draw the payroll for the hired hands. Maybe he’d just stay in town awhile. He could use a good time…

He froze, then leaped to his feet, drawing his pistol. Someone was walking in the hall. He doused the lantern on the desk and positioned himself directly in front of the door, waiting.

Two sounds broke the tense silence: the creak of the door opening…and the ominous click of his gun hammer.

Love and Splendor

Patricia Hagan

From glittering salons in France to the sumptuous world of the Russian Empire, their love knows no boundaries.

Raised by a cruel aunt after her mother’s death, Dani Coltrane is thrilled to be reunited with her father, Travis, and his wife, Kitty, amongst the glittering lights of Paris. But when a surprise inheritance from her mother’s family leads Dani to a hidden cache of art, little does she know that the valuable art holds an even bigger secret—the location of a priceless Faberge egg. Unfortunately for Dani, many would kill to possess this treasure.

Russian nobleman Drakar is on a mission to restore his family name. Banished from the courts of Imperial Russia, he knows that if he can only find the location of the egg, all will be restored. But one look at the beautiful Dani Coltrane and his priorities change.
 

Unwilling to give up her hard-fought freedom to any man, Dani simply cannot resist the intense passion she finds with Drakar. And Drakar soon realizes that the greatest treasure of them all is the fiery woman in his arms.

This book was originally published in October 1987 by Avon Books.

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Love and Splendor

Copyright © 2012 by Patricia Hagan

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Originally Published by Avon Books: October 1987

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