But Remy has larger problems to contend with than Sara’s bigoted father. Forced to leave the woman he loves behind, Remy faces overwhelming odds and an ordeal that threatens to strip him of everything; his pride, his strength, his health—even his life.
Sara has many struggles of her own and when Remy finally thinks he has a future with Sara within his grasp, he is sent to a place where pain and suffering are everyday occurrences. Will the lovers ever find true happiness?
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Now here's my six paragraphs:
Rem stared at Sara Greenwood, unable to
take his eyes off this beauty. She was, without a doubt, the most entrancing
creature he’d ever seen. With hair and eyes as black as sin and flawless skin
like pure porcelain, her face was that of a goddess. A bloom on her cheeks gave
her face a vital sheen of good health. How his fingers itched to unpin her
silken tresses from their neat coils. He ached to touch that skin to see if it
felt as soft and downy as it looked.
She carried her youth and beauty with a
proud bearing missing in so many of the young women in the colony; these women
brooded and sulked, despairing of their lot in life after being dragged to this
awful continent by their fathers against their will. Most had pasty faces they
kept well hidden beneath large-brimmed bonnets to shield them from the sun they
saw as an enemy to their complexions.
Rem thanked God it was a Sunday, and they
allowed him to join the small gathering. The thought he might have missed
meeting this goddess made him shudder. Tiger made a habit of inviting all newcomers
to the district to his and Bella’s home soon after their arrival. The
Greenwoods had recently settled here after living in Sydney for five years.
Bella met them briefly on a trip into town, and Rem knew by her remarks she
wasn’t particularly enamored of Edmund Greenwood or his timid wife Eleanor. Rem
couldn’t give a damn about them, but was already half in love with their
daughter.
“So charmed to meet you,” Sara was saying
to Bella and Tiger, who were decked out in the finery kept solely for such
occasions.
Extending her long, slender fingers, Sara
took their welcoming outstretched hands one after the other. Turning to Rem,
she offered the same delicate hand, and he bowed over it reverently. Her scent
filled his nostrils, battered at his senses. Like a garden in full bloom, or a
bowl of roses. Not very poetic, he knew, but she would forever remind him of a
spring day; an English one, where rosebuds sent out their fragrance to entice
the bees, and butterflies were entranced by the colors.
Rem realized his breathing was as uneven as
his heartbeat. As he straightened, their eyes met, and for one infinitesimal
moment Rem felt sure a message passed between them. Could she be as smitten as
he?
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Sara sounds like a goddess for sure. I remember reading this one, and I loved it, but then I can' find fault with anything you do.
ReplyDeleteGreat six for showing Rem's first reaction to Sara.
ReplyDeleteVery enticing six, Tricia . If the rest is anything like Mystic Mountains, I'm sure to love it :-)
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