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The Destiny of Divers O'Roarke

Once he’d have died to possess her, now he just might… Beautiful, headstrong young widow Destiny Rhodes was every Cornish man’s dream. Until Divers O’Roarke cursed her with ruin and walked out of Cornwall without a backwards glance. Now he’s not only back, he’s just won the only thing that hasn’t fallen down about her head—her ancestral home. The home, pride demands she throw herself in with, safe in the knowledge of one thing. Everything she touches withers to dust. He’d cursed her with ruin. Now she’d have him live with the spoils of her misfortune. Though well versed in his dealings with smugglers and dead men, handsome rogue Divers O’Roarke is far from sure of his standing with Destiny Rhodes. He had no desire to win her, doesn’t want her in his house, but while he’s bent on the future, is there one when a passionate and deadly game of bluff ensues with the woman he once cursed? A game where no-one and nothing are what they seem. Him most of all. And when everything she touches turns to dust, what will be his fate as passion erupts? Will laying past ghosts come at the highest price of all?

Shehanne Moore · History
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CHAPTER THIRTY ONE

Destiny jerked upright in the moonlight. The thud somewhere along the landing would just about waken the dead. Certainly it had woken her. She’d sooner drag the bedclothes over her head and ease back down, than set one foot on the bare boards when the last several days had shown she was as far from being a corpse as whoever had made the noise. Forget how embarrassing it was that Orwell, not content with losing Doom Bar Hall, when he was several sheets to the wind, had only just gone and collapsed on the landing while he was a hundred sheets more and knocked Grandmother Tintagel’s delftware basin and ewer for six. Between him and Divers O’Roarke the house would be as much as she got, if she got it though.

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