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Promised Land

by Connie Willis, Cynthia Felice · 1996

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It has been fifteen years since Delanna Milleflores set foot on Keramos. Now her mother has died, and she has returned only to settle and sell her estate. But Keramos has some surprising laws. To sell her farm, Delanna must first live on it for one year. And along with her land comes one Tarlton Tanner, heir to the adjoining farm.

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A man who, at the moment of her mother's death, became Delanna's husband...

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adult
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medium · 368 pages

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