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    The Merchant's Daughter
    The Merchant's Daughter
    The Merchant's Daughter
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    The Merchant's Daughter

    By Jessica A. Carter

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    As the only child of a wealthy merchant, Elise’s future was planned out from birth. She was to wed the Governor’s son, thereby securing the future of her family’s business. When the handsome son of a business competitor comes for a visit, her life is thrown upside down and Elise finds herself torn between her duty to her family, and the man who's slowly capturing her heart.
    -A short romance story-

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJessica A. Carter
    Release dateJul 11, 2013
    ISBN9781301024117
    The Merchant's Daughter
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    Jessica A. Carter

    I love to read, but I live to write.What started out as a way to express my pent up emotions when I was a child, quickly turned into something I couldn't live without.My first real writing was done through poetry. It was short, to the point, and let me talk about whatever happy or depressing thoughts happened to cross my mind.From there I moved on to short stories. In the beginning they weren't very long, had awful grammar, and tended to be very rushed. Once I found fanfiction, that all began to change. I started to really get inside my characters heads, flesh out their worlds, and write out complete thoughts instead of just snippets.It didn't take long for me to start writing my own stories again, and I haven't stopped since. I still tend to stick with short stories (I have a very short attention span), but I no longer feel that's all I can write. I've completed one full length novel and am well on my way to finishing the second.I never stick to just one topic or genre, my mind doesn't work that way, so chances are you'll see a wide variety of stories from me.I hope you enjoy reading my works as much as I enjoyed writing them.

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      The Merchant's Daughter - Jessica A. Carter

      The Merchant’s Daughter

      Copyright 2013 Jessica Carter

      Smashwords Edition

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Copyright - 2013 by Jessica Carter

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

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      The Merchant’s Daughter

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      It was raining, as it had been all week. The roads had long since flooded making travel by coach nearly impossible, something for which Elise was extremely grateful. It wasn’t that she liked the rain, far from it, but as she’d recently come of age it was time for her to be formally engaged to her betrothed so the families could begin preparations for the wedding ceremony. She wasn’t looking forward to that in the least.

      Being betrothed hadn’t bothered her when she was little, it had always made her feel a bit special to know that her future was certain, but over the years her intended had grown to be quite the womanizer, according to several of the women who came to weekly tea with her mother, and the thought of having to deal with a man like that for the rest of her life did not sound very pleasant.

      Leaning her forehead against the windowpane, something her mother was sure to have a fit over if she ever caught her doing it, Elise watched the flood of water as it fell off the roof to join the streams that flowed over the front drive.

      As she was about to close her eyes, she spotted what appeared to be a large blob moving in the distance. Moving closer to the glass, she attempted to get a clearer picture of what it was, but to no avail. The rain was too thick for her to see anything more than a passing glimpse and she soon gave up. Whoever it was, if it was a person at all, would be at the door eventually so there was no reason to pursue the mysterious shape any longer.

      Elise, her mother called from the kitchen moments after she pulled herself away from the window. It’s time for your cooking lessons.

      With a groan, she pushed herself off the window seat and straightened out the folds on her floor length burgundy gown. Yet another reason she despised the rain. Her mother never permitted her to be in what she deemed ‘unflattering’ clothing unless she was tending the horses or her garden. The remainder of the time she was to be dressed properly, the way a woman of her station should be.

      Once she was certain she looked presentable, she walked out of the living room, through the foyer, and into the large kitchen her mother had demanded her father have added onto the house two years ago. It wasn’t so that she could cook, they had a chef for that, it

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