GalvestonGalveston casts a spell ... It is a novel that sweeps you into a long-ago world of passion..love and splendor ... It is an epic of the Texas town they called America's island of lost dreams. It is the saga of three beautiful, headstrong women ... Claire, whose memory of lost love poisoned in the lives of everyone who cared for her. Serena, who sacrificed her last hopes of happiness for the child she would never see. Willa, liberated as only a Texas oil heiress could be..a woman who could have anything - except the secret of her own identity. |
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Page 266
... never let her come here while he was alive . Over the years Claire has often mentioned Charles disliked Helga , but never , as I recall , has she said why . Yet even Helga's involvement wouldn't fit because her only contact with the ...
... never let her come here while he was alive . Over the years Claire has often mentioned Charles disliked Helga , but never , as I recall , has she said why . Yet even Helga's involvement wouldn't fit because her only contact with the ...
Page 411
... never happened , of course , that he stood her up . I know now he was as much in love with her as she with him , yet it bothered me , this romance between them . The mythology book never paired Apollo with Aphrodite . It made me think ...
... never happened , of course , that he stood her up . I know now he was as much in love with her as she with him , yet it bothered me , this romance between them . The mythology book never paired Apollo with Aphrodite . It made me think ...
Page 420
... never sorry . Very appropriate , too , I might add , on his christening day - the child never made it to the church ! You know , they say babies who've never been baptized can't get into heaven . . . Of course , not until this summer ...
... never sorry . Very appropriate , too , I might add , on his christening day - the child never made it to the church ! You know , they say babies who've never been baptized can't get into heaven . . . Of course , not until this summer ...
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