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“Very carefully,” Lyn pronounces, stretching on her toes to look over the crowd filling the room. “What a beautiful wedding. Can you believe that coach?”
The bride arrived at the church in a horse drawn coach complete with liveried coachmen wearing white rosettes. Even the whip was decorated with a white bow, and the coach to take the bride and groom from the Church to the wedding breakfast was drawn by beautiful chestnut horses.
“They went all out, and from the look of things, the reception will be just as grand. Oh, look at the cake! Three tiers of yummy.”
“There she is,” Patsy points across the room, “and she has Oliver with her.”
“Oh thank God. I need a drink.” Mac waves a lacy gloved hand in front of her face. “How did Victorian women ever survive hot flashes?”
"Maybe Foster can whip you up a fan," Lyn waggled her brows. "I saw him outside with Cuddles."
"Don't give that fairy any ideas," Mac grumbles. "Did you see him at the church? I know it had to have been his idea to have Nibbie chase the coach with Hampy on his back."
Mary and Patsy exchange a look and burst out laughing. "I wouldn't be so sure," Mary says past her chuckles. "The demon dog and manic hamster are capable of getting into mischief all on their own."
Just then, organ music fills the hall and the bride and groom enter, drawing everyone’s attention. The bride wears a cream satin wedding gown with puffed sleeves, fitting snugly, and emphasizing her tiny waist. The skirt has a long, heavily embroidered train. The bonnet is of cream velvet, trimmed with orange blossom and silver thread embroidery under the brim, covered by a tambour lace veil.
“That’s some dress,” Patsy coos, then forgets all about the bride when the groomsmen enter behind the newly wedded pair. The eyes of all four women follow the men as they cross the room, dressed identically in dark dress jackets over colorful waistcoats and black trousers. White neckties and gloves complete their ensembles. Each is more handsome than the next.
“Forget hot flashes, I think I’m about to start drooling,” Patsy sighs.
Margaret arrives with Oliver in tow. Passing out flutes of champagne, she smiles broadly and toasts with her glass. “Oh, I am so glad you could come, ladies. We’re going to have so much fun.”
Margaret says: Unfortunately, the heroine in my novel, Savage Possession, was denied the wedding of her dreams, but had she been able to, this is what she might have had.
MARGARET TANNER
Margaret
Tanner is a multi-published award winning Australian author. She loves delving
into the pages of history as she carries out research for her historical
romance novels, and prides herself on being historically accurate. No book is
too old or tattered for her to trawl through, no museum too dusty, or cemetery
too overgrown. Many of her novels have been inspired by true events, with one
being written around the hardships and triumphs of her pioneering ancestors in
frontier Australia.
Margaret is a member of the Romance Writers
of Australia, the Melbourne Romance Writers Guild (MRWG) and EPIC.
Margaret is married and has three grown up
sons, and a gorgeous little granddaughter.
SAVAGE
POSSESSION
Raw sexual emotion, revenge and
redemption. If you want a sugar-coated romance, Savage Possession is not for
you. In colonial Australia
it took hard men like Martin Mulvaney to tame a harsh land.
A
sweeping tale of love's triumph over tragedy and treachery in frontier Australia.
A
mistaken identity opens the door for Martin Mulvaney to take his revenge on the
granddaughter of his mortal enemy.
An old Scottish feud, a love that should never have happened, and a series of extraordinary coincidences traps two lovers in a family vendetta that threatens to destroy their love, if not their lives.
An old Scottish feud, a love that should never have happened, and a series of extraordinary coincidences traps two lovers in a family vendetta that threatens to destroy their love, if not their lives.
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