Harlequin Blaze July 2013 Bundle: Wild at Heart\Lead Me On\Free Fall\She's No Angel by Vicki Lewis Thompson

Author:Vicki Lewis Thompson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

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“SO, YOU’RE SURE you don’t mind doing this?”

Maggie stood on the wide, covered veranda of the spacious Victorian where she had grown up, and gave her twin brother, Eric, a tolerant look. “Would I have come all the way from Chicago if I minded?”

Her brother ran his fingers through his hair in a distracted manner, causing it to stand on end. “I just know how much you hate Whidbey Island. But I wouldn’t have asked you to come back if it wasn’t important. Danielle and I really need this vacation.”

“I know that. And I don’t hate Whidbey Island,” Maggie said cautiously. “I just outgrew it.”

“It’s been ten years, Maggie.” Eric’s expression was sympathetic. “I’ll bet nobody even remembers what happened back then. Besides, none if it was your fault.”

Maggie squinted, even though she stood well in the shade of the porch. There was no way she wanted to talk about what had happened all those years ago. For her, the memories were still too fresh.

Too humiliating.

Ignoring his words, she looked past Eric to where her sister-in-law, Danielle, sat waiting for him in the car. “Look, you’d better go if you’re going to catch your flight. Please don’t worry about a thing. The house will be fine, and I’ll have Carly to help me with the shop.”

“And you’re sure you can manage the festival?”

The annual arts-and-crafts festival in Coupeville was one of the biggest events of the summer months, drawing tourists from all over the greater northwest. Maggie’s mother had created an exclusive line of sea-glass jewelry more than twenty years ago, and what had begun as a hobby and a way to make a little extra money had grown into a lucrative family business. Maggie had grown up helping her mom run a tent at the festival every summer until she’d turned eighteen, and knew she would have no problem running a tent for her brother. Both Eric and his wife were talented artists who had taken the line of sea-glass jewelry to a whole new level. They frequently traveled to South America and Europe to collect their sea glass, although Eric had found some of his rarest pieces of glass right on the nearby beaches of Puget Sound. In addition to their small shop, Village Sea Glass, in downtown Coupeville, they had a thriving online business, and their work had been featured in numerous upscale magazines.

And if Maggie did have any reservations, Carly Bates was there to help her. Carly helped Eric run his shop, and was a well-known glass artist on Whidbey Island. She’d been attending the annual arts festival for longer than Maggie had been alive.

Now she resisted rolling her eyes at her brother and gave him a cheerful smile instead.

“I’ll be fine. You and Danielle go and have fun...it may be the last vacation you have for a long time.”

Eric’s wife was six months’ pregnant with twins, and they’d decided to take a long-anticipated trip to Hawaii to visit her parents while she could still travel.

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