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Authors: Fran Baker

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“Don’t,” he said. He trapped her hand within his and kissed it, front and back. “I don’t want to think that you might have loved me then, that I might have escaped all the years of loneliness. I don’t want to think of the might-have-beens. I only want to think about the will-bes in store for us.”

“And the nows,” she added, giving him a kiss.

“And the nows,” he agreed, giving her his heart.

 

 

 

 

In Loving Memory of

Ruth Catherine McKenzie McCoy

I still miss you, Mom

 

 

 

 

 

 

Copyright © 2011 by Fran Baker

First printing: September 2011 [Five Star]

Electronically published in May 2013 by Delphi Books and Belgrave House

 

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

 

No portion of this book may be reprinted in whole or in part, by printing, faxing, E-mail, copying electronically or by any other means without permission of the publisher. For more information, contact Belgrave House, 190 Belgrave Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94117-4228

 

     http://www.BelgraveHouse.com

     Electronic sales: [email protected]

 

This is a work of fiction. All names in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to any person living or dead is coincidental.

Table of Contents

THE TALK OF THE TOWN

Fran Baker

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

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