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    One Night? Or Forever?: Lone Star Dynasty
    One Night? Or Forever?: Lone Star Dynasty
    One Night? Or Forever?: Lone Star Dynasty
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    One Night? Or Forever?: Lone Star Dynasty

    By Ann Major

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    "No one provides hotter emotional fireworks than the fiery Ann Major." Romantic Times

    In this passionate short story version of Love With An Imperfect Cowboy, a soon-to-be published full-length novel  from USA Today Bestselling, Ann Major (63 pages) Hannah Lewis is a Manhattan doctor and a runaway bride. Liam Stark is a decorated soldier/rancher  with a tragic past.

    Who knew seeking refuge in the wrong bar after getting lost in a Texas storm could be so dangerous…or so sexy?

    When he saves her from an attempted assault and takes her home for the night, their relationship gets steamier.

    Ann Major has written nearly seventy best-selling novels for Dell, Silhouette Books, Harlequin and Mira. She has been published all over the world. She is presently writing a new series: Lone Star Dynasty and will publish the first book in April of 2016.

    Praise for Ann Major:
    "Ann Major's name on the cover instantly identifies the book as a good read." –New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown

    "Want it all? Read Ann Major." –New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts

    Reviews of her soon to be republished TEXAS: CHILDREN OF DESTINY series which Ann is reissuing in e-book formats:

     
    DESTINY'S CHILD (book 2)
    This excellent story is intense and emotionally involving.
    —Rendezvous, September 1988
    NIGHT CHILD (book 3)
    A powerful story that is as equally compelling, intense and emotional as the first two. The entire trilogy offers a wonderful reading experience.
    —KW Rendezvous
    NIGHT CHILD (book 3)
    Ann Major's stunning conclusion to her Children of Destiny series, NIGHT CHILD (4+) powerfully blends romance and danger…. The fiery romance will win a reserved spot on many a bookshelf.
    — Romantic Times Magazine
    WILDERNESS CHILD (book 4)
    What a terrific story! The dialogue is fast-paced and snappy, the storyline is exciting, the characterization is great and the love scenes singe the pages.
    — KW Rendezvous
    SCANDAL'S CHILD (book 5)
    SCANDAL'S CHILD is a terrific story that is passionate and intense with some wonderful characterizations. Garret's Cajun mystique makes him a perfect Man of the Month and this story a super reading pleasure.
    — KW Rendezvous
    THE GOODBYE CHILD (book 6)
    The Goodbye Child is a wonderful blend of excitement, intrigue and romance. Don't miss it!
    — KW Rendezvous

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMajor Press LLC
    Release dateFeb 21, 2016
    ISBN9781942473923
    One Night? Or Forever?: Lone Star Dynasty
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    Chapter 1

    NEW YORK CITY

    I wonder if I’m the first Park Avenue bride to ever go on her honeymoon alone?

    When Hannah Lewis planned her perfect day, she never imagined she’d be a bride on the run from her own magnificent Upper East Side wedding. After all she was a Lewis, who’d been born and bred in a penthouse that crowned one of the truly great buildings on Park Avenue, a building inhabited by titans of industry and their glittering, socialite wives. A building whose smug board had made international celebrities weep when they denied them ownership. But now, instead of sipping champagne in her father’s club while her mother basked with pride at having launched her favorite daughter, Hannah’s eyes were glued to the minivan’s bumper less than a foot in front of the Jag.

    Don’t think about Mother and how disappointed she’ll be.

    Oblivious to the blasts of horns on all sides of her, Hannah pushed her lace veil out of her eyes, hunched over the wheel, and gunned James’s Jaguar for all it was worth. Tires screeching, she changed lanes, cutting off the trucker to her right who shot her the finger as she raced north along E. River Drive.

    Having grown up with a private limo and chauffeur, and later with the use of an elite car service paid for by Daddy, not to mention privately chartered helicopter rides to the family summer home in the Hamptons, Hannah didn’t drive much, unlike her twin who loved cars. She lacked the patience, even when her life was running smoothly.

    Today she felt like a joke in her organza wedding gown. And as for patience—she was psycho bride on the warpath.

    If only she could have lost the dress before she’d jumped behind the wheel of James’s sports car, but she’d been in a panic bordering on the murderous. Her only thought had been to escape James, their extravagant reception, her twin sister, and all the guests who might have witnessed her humiliation. And Mother. No way could she deal with her mother who would consider this her tragedy.  

    This was supposed to be her perfect day! Hers! Not Nell’s! Not Mother’s either!

    Driven by her mother to excel as a bride as she’d excelled at everything else, from French to physics to classical piano and her career in medicine, Hannah had spent days, hours, weeks...years—well, fifteen months exactly, planning her wedding down the last detail.

    Okay, so maybe she’d become obsessed about the wedding being perfect; so maybe juggling the long hours she put in as an anesthesiologist and organizing the wedding had made her edgy; okay, more than edgy. So maybe she’d gotten over-stressed and hadn’t spent much time on James lately. Men were high-maintenance, right?

    But she’d always loved James; had always planned to marry him. He knew that. He knew weddings made brides and their mothers crazy, especially Upper East Side, detail-oriented brides and their competitive, helicopter mothers. Just like he knew that after their wedding he and she were going to have a month all to themselves to honeymoon. A whole month at the dude ranch he’d chosen in the middle of nowhere, where she would have nothing else to do but devote herself to him and indulge his every whim.

    He knew doctors were busy; they’d been together for several years, hadn’t they? He was an extremely ambitious attorney, who worked all the time himself. Did she ever complain about that when he tried a case and she was on her own for days...and nights?

    He’d admired her family’s position and status. He knew she’d wanted everything to be perfect for him. It had all been to please him.

    Well...and Mother and Daddy.

    And then her twin sister, Daddy’s favorite had had to ruin everything.

    Tears leaked from Hannah Lewis’s narrowed eyes as she remembered what she’d caught Nell doing to James at the reception. Hannah hadn’t cried since her first year in medical school, but surely utter betrayal by her sister and brand-new husband deserved a tear or two.

    On her eightieth birthday, she’d still remember his goofy smile as he’d stared down at Nell and the glitter of triumph in Nell’s lovely, dark eyes.

    Her twin! Her own twin!

    Hannah’s flesh felt clammy. The Queen Anne Venice lace beneath her underarms was soggy. Not that she cared that she might be doing permanent damage to the designer lace gown with its chapel length train as she stomped on the accelerator again and swerved left onto the bridge. She would shred it or maybe burn it as soon as she got to the airport.

    The sun was out, and little white diamonds danced on the water’s surface. Normally she would have admired the pretty view of Roosevelt Island. Not today. All she wanted was to leave New York behind her as fast as possible. She had a month off and two tickets to Texas.

    Texas? Why of all the lovely places to honeymoon had James chosen Texas? She knew the answer to that: his favorite aunt had lived on a ranch in South Texas, and he had fond memories of visiting her there as a boy.

    Luck was with her. The traffic thinned. Twenty minutes later she was inside the parking garage at the airport hunting the perfect space for James’s precious XK. She had to drive up to the third level before she found a roomy spot where it wouldn’t get dinged.

    She pulled in carefully, watching the visual indicator on his touch-screen to make sure she wasn’t too close to the battered truck on her right while

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