Serendipity Market by Penny Blubaugh

Author:Penny Blubaugh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

“I got home before I was missed, but just barely. I tried every definition of the word ‘lover’ I could think of as I fed the goats, cleaned their pens, washed and polished the dishes and utensils, chopped, and swept. All definitions made me nervous.

“I had started this by wanting to reclaim a house and the honor of my family name. Now it seemed that I was being called upon to reclaim a life. I was in deeper than I’d expected, and it seemed that I was going to have to go deeper still if I truly wanted to save this man—my father’s best friend, long vanished.

“Suddenly I wished I’d never heard of Thom Lyndenhall or Carter House. My wishing didn’t make things go away. Something had to be done, and it looked like it was up to me to do it. After all, it was only two weeks until Halloween.

“The next night, I went back. This time I picked no roses. It wasn’t necessary. Both he and his horse were standing by the well, looking as if they’d known I was coming, looking as if we’d had this date arranged for weeks.

“‘Maisie,’ he said.

“‘Thom.’

“We were both so very polite, acting as if we were meeting for the first time at a formal-dress party. Then he smiled. My breath slipped and caught in my throat. In the slow, slanted autumn moonlight, he looked like a true consort for the queen. I could see why she’d wanted him those twenty-one years ago.

“The only thing I couldn’t see was why she’d decided to let him go.

“‘I’ve thought about what you said.’ I was close to him now, close enough to touch.

“‘Have you?’

“I nodded. And then I kissed him, and he kissed back, a deep kiss, full of longing. We finally pulled apart and breathed air into our lungs. I leaned against his warmth and strength, and I said, ‘Tell me again, what will you turn into when you’re pulled from that horse?’

“We spent the next ten days plotting. He repeated the colors and order of the horses in the queen’s procession until I was reciting them in my sleep.

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