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A Wild Yearning

by Penelope Williamson · 1990

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THE PASSIONATE JOURNEY OF RESTLESS HEARTS

Trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Boston, young Delia McQuaid dreamed of becoming a lady. Answering an advertisement for a mail-order bride, she headed north — toward a remote Maine settlement, an uncertain destiny and a wedding with a stranger.

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But Ty Savitch was leading her up-country. A handsome doctor raised by Indians, he possessed a fiery untamed spirit and blood that ran hot with desires he could barely contain. With one searing kiss Ty carried the lovely Boston spitfire to ecstasy's heights. But a glorious passion suddenly born could never grow. For Delia had promised her future forever to another man....

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long · 448 pages

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