The Wolf and the Dove (63 page)

He turned her in his arms and their two shadows were joined as one in the new sun’s light.

Darkenwald had found a place for all.

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss wrote the very first historical romance novel in 1972 —
The Flame and the Flower
created a genre and made Ms. Woodiwiss one of the world’s most popular writers, with 36 million books in print. In celebration of Ms. Woodiwiss’s new novel,
The Reluctant Suitor
(2003), PerfectBound is publishing Ms. Woodiwiss’s classic backlist, including the complete Birmingham Family Saga
: The Flame and the Flower
;
The Elusive Flame
;
A Season Beyond a Kiss
. Also available are Ms. Woodiwiss’s
Ashes in the Wind
;
Come Love a Stranger
;
Forever in Your Embrace
;
Petals on the River
;
A Rose in Winter
;
Shanna
;
So Worthy My Love
;
The Wolf and the Dove
.

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NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLING AUTHOR
KATHLEEN E. WOODIWISS

“A LEGEND. . .
THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL ROMANCE.”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“A PHENOMENON”
The New York Times

“WOODIWISS REIGNS!”
Life

“THE FIRST LADY OF THE GENRE.”
Publishers Weekly

“LIVE AND BREATHE THE WORLD
KATHLEEN E. WOODIWISS CREATES.”
Houston Chronicle

Works by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

The Birmingham Family Saga:

The Flame and the Flower
The Elusive Flame
A Season Beyond a Kiss

And also:

Ashes in the Wind
Come Love a Stranger
Forever in Your Embrace
Petals on the River
A Rose in Winter
Shanna
So Worthy My Love
The Wolf and the Dove
The Reluctant Suitor

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE WOLF AND THE DOVE. Copyright © 1974 by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

ePub edition. March 2003 ISBN 9780061758669

First Avon Books printing: March 1974

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