In the Heat of Delight

By Dorothy Kane Liddle

Terri Mallory glimpsed Connor Cody, as he stood up from where he’d been sitting across from her. If he was going into the kitchen, Terri would come up with an excuse to follow him.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eXtasy Books Inc
• Release date: Aug 6, 2017
• ISBN: 9781487411121

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This was one heat wave she hoped would never end.

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In the Heat of Delight

Copyright © 2017 Dorothy Kane Liddle

ISBN: 978-1-4874-1112-1

Cover art by Angela Waters

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In the Heat of Delight

By

Dorothy Kane Liddle

Chapter One

The tiny canoe is barely able to keep her afloat in the turquoise water, but she is not afraid. Schools of blue dolphins swim past, leaping in high arcs above her, guiding her to the golden beach ahead and toward the distant cave. She can see it is not dark inside the cave, but instead it is lit with the light of a thousand diamonds. She is warm, warmed by a summer’s endless heat, and it is blanketing her in a boundless joy. Strangely, expansively, that joy embraces more than just her own. She can feel the joy of the dolphins as they thrust on to the golden beach and the diamond-lit cave. She feels, too, the joy of the cave, as it seems to beckon both her and the leaping, thrusting, pistoning dolphins toward its sparkling, welcoming entrance. A wave lifts her and her tiny canoe, and she cries out in an exalted affirmation of...

Terri heard the scrape of the gate latch and bolted upright in her lounge chair and out of her wonderful dream. Wow. What