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352 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 29, 2004
“I’ve cursed every day I’ve had to live without you, and every night that I spent with another woman, wishing that it was you in my arms—”
In the past Gideon had seen McKenna with women in far more licentious circumstances than this.
"I’ll marry no man but you McKenna. And if you ever leave me, I’ll be alone for the rest of my life."
"Aline …. I would never leave unless you told me to go …"
Aline was his curse, his fate, his consuming desire. He would never stop wanting her, no matter what she did, no matter how many oceans and continents he managed to put between them.
"No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as much as I do."
"You sleep too," she said groggily, her hand creeping to the center of his chest.
"No." McKenna smiled and pressed a soft kiss against her temple. His voice was husky with wonder.
"Not when staying awake is better than anything I could find in a dream."
Since the day that John McKenna had been brought to the estate at the age of 8, he and Aline had been constant companions for ten years, climbing trees, swimming in the river, and running around barefoot. But eventually things had begun to change between them. No healthy young man could fail to be stirred and set off-kilter by Aline, who at the age of 17, had become the loveliest girl on God's green earth.
You think you want me now. but you'll change. Someday you'll find it damned easy to forget about me. A servant.....
“For thousands of nights I dreamed of making love to you. No man on earth has ever hated sunrise as much as I do.”
"I'll love you until the day I did. You're the only man I'll ever want, McKenna, the only -"