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Vanity Blade
Vanity Blade
Vanity Blade
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The life and loves of the riverboat queen who left a trail of broken hearts behind her on her voyage west.
 
The orphan daughter of a saloon singer, vivacious Mary Lousie Mackenzie grows up to be a famous singer herself, the beautiful gambling queen known as Vanity Blade. Leaving her home in Mississippi, Vanity travels a wayward path to Sacramento, where she rules her own gambling boat. Gamblers and con men barter in high stakes around her, but Vanity’s heart remains back east, with her once carefree life and former love, Trance Holloway, a preacher’s son.
 
Trying to reclaim a happiness she’d left behind long ago, Vanity returns to Mississippi to discover—and fight for—the love she thought she’d lost forever.
 
LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 22, 2015
ISBN9781626816602
Vanity Blade
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Samantha Harte

As soon as Samantha could spell, she was writing a mystery! By high school she had written a pirate romance novel and a contemporary romance. Later, writing while her children napped, her short romantic stories began appearing in magazines and continued to do so for years. After selling her first novel, she enjoyed teaching fiction skills at adult education and writers' conferences. Ten novels later, following a pause to work full-time, Samantha is once again writing, hoping her readers will find her stories full of romance, mystery and adventure.

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