Read The Groom Wore Plaid: Highland Weddings Online
Authors: Gayle Callen
Tags: #Fiction, #Romance, #Historical, #General
The Groom Wore Plaid: Highland Weddings (35 page)
“Woman, I’ll have ye know—”
“I didn’t say ye’d be recovering all alone in that big bed.”
He blinked at her. “Well then. I do believe I’ll need to be recovering all day long.”
Laughing, she took his hand and led him to their marriage bed, which she planned to put to good use for many years to come. Just not today.
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hat night, safe within her husband’s arms, Maggie dreamed. Their future came vividly to life, the five children she would bear, a mix of girls and boys. She saw Owen giving lectures in Edinburgh, saw herself at his side, discussing their research, involving their children, teaching a love of learning and science that would extend for generations and produce great minds who solved scientific mysteries that had once seemed like only superstition or magic.
But it was their obvious love and respect for each other that molded their children, that provided the safety and security for exploration of the mind and of the soul.
And when Maggie awoke, her head pillowed on Owen’s broad shoulder, she smiled a secretive smile, and told herself this was one dream she could show him by living it rather than foretelling it. Although maybe she’d tell him their first child would be a boy . . .
After a detour through fitness instructing and computer programming,
GAYLE CALLEN
found the life she’d always dreamed of as a romance writer. This
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bestselling author has written more than twenty historical romances for Avon Books, and her novels have won the Holt Medallion, the Laurel Wreath Award, and the Booksellers’ Best Award, and have been translated into eleven different languages. The mother of three grown children, an avid crafter, singer, and outdoor enthusiast, Gayle lives in Central New York with her dog, Uma, and her husband, Jim the Romance Hero. She also writes contemporary romances as Emma Cane. Visit her website at
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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EPub Edition MARCH 2016 ISBN: 9780062268013
Print Edition ISBN: 978-0-06-226800-6
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