What must he surrender in exchange for love?
As part of our Books
In A Series
events, Wild Women Authors offers Slow Train to Nowhere: Milo. This
American Historical Romance, written by Laura Strickland, is Book 3 of the Slow
Train to Nowhere series, released by the Wild Rose Press.
About the Book: Milo Digsby
remembers life before he rode the orphan train to Clabber Mills, Indiana,
including the farm back in England where his father worked so hard. He’s always
done his best to get along, but now as a grown man he’s being asked to give up
the one thing he won’t: his name.
Jessica Downing is the new schoolteacher in Clabber Mills, though she prefers her ancestral vocation of fortuneteller and witch. Milo stirs her instincts and her desire. But before she can belong to him, this man so often denied his liberty must have the chance to choose his future, even if it doesn’t include the gift of her heart.
An Excerpt:
“Miss? Have you hurt yourself?”
“I don’t know.”
She’d landed hard on her knees and
Milo feared the worst. Even as he reached to help her up, she scrambled, and
the rest of her parcels tumbled from her arms.
“Oh, dang,” she said breathlessly.
Milo hauled her up with one hand
beneath her elbow and scanned for blood.
A tiny thing once on her feet, she
barely reached his ear. She wore a quite incredible set of garments, a skirt
with deep ruffles, a blue coat over it all and a small hat set at an angle.
The color of the coat picked up
that of her eyes when she looked up at him. curious eyes they were, deep, deep
blue with a silvery ring around the irises, set in a fair, sharp-featured face.
For an instant they regarded one
another as if taking measure. Hastily, Milo looked away, assessing the number
of packages with his eyes.
“Are all these yours?” he asked
stupidly. Of course they were hers. Hadn’t he just seen her drop them?
“Yes. I shouldn’t have tried to
carry so many at once, but I thought I could do it all in one trip.
She had yellow hair beneath the
tiny hat. Not all one color yellow, but streaked—some tresses darker, some
golden. Curly hair.
“Sure you’re not hurt?”
“I banged my knees, but I think my
petticoats cushioned things.”
“Ah—good.” Milo rarely discussed
women’s petticoats. He imagined Temperance must wear such things, but he hadn’t
touched her in order to find out for himself.
To be truthful, he considered the
prospect of finding out—well, mildly horrifying.
He should leave this young lady to
her business. Walk away. Collect Temperance’s packages. Whoever she was, she
was nothing to him.
Instead he found himself reaching
for the scattered packages as might any gentleman. He deposited them around her
feet, wondering what they could be.
After an instant she joined the
pursuit, and soon enough the last errant parcel had been retrieved.
Time for Milo to walk away. For
sure.
“Where you headed?” he asked
instead.
“The land office.”
“Oh?” One of Milo’s eyebrows crept
up.
“My uncle, Henry Scaggs works
there.”
“I see,” said Milo, who didn’t
really. Why couldn’t he just walk away? Fetch Temperance’s packages. “Well,
Miss Scaggs, the land office is just along there.” He pointed. “You can’t miss
it.”
“I’m Miss Downing.” She thrust out
a tiny hand. “Jessica Downing. My mother is Uncle Henry’s sister.”
Milo’s mind untangled that even as
he reached for her hand. Not an especially large man, standing at around
five-ten, square-bult but spare, he nevertheless felt large and strapping when
his fingers enfolded hers.
“Milo Digsby. Er—welcome to Clabber
Mills.”
He didn’t exactly hear the chime of
bells when his flesh met hers but he definitely felt something. He went dizzy
for an instant and thought he smelled roses.
His ma had grown roses back in
England, just one cherished bush beside the cottage door. He hadn’t been able
to smell them since, without thinking of her.
But it was the wrong time of year
for roses.
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