Esmerelda's Secret: Esmerelda's Lovers
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Esmerelda, Massachusetts, a community built on tradition, held secrets and painful memories. John William (J.W.) Dalton and Willow MacKenzie had once been passionate lovers, two halves of one soul, torn apart by greed and misunderstanding.
Now, ten years later, J.W. is sheriff and Willow has returned to Esmerelda to finally lay to rest the tormenting ghosts that continue to haunt her.
Her love for J.W. has never died. Willow's return will open old wounds. Can J.W. protect her from the destructive truth that awaits?
Adrianna Dane
Adrianna Dane has been putting pen to paper since the age of ten. She currently resides in the state of Washington. She has a great fondness for using a fountain pen when writing her first drafts. Hobby interests are varied, including photography and traveling. The first defining love story Adrianna read back in junior high school was "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, and that set her on the road to her long-standing love affair with books of all genres. Her inspiration in writing often can be found by listening to song lyrics, from hard rock to classical, and reading poetry by such poets as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allen Poe, and Ranier Maria Rilke. But finding inspiration for her stories truly has no boundaries for Adrianna. In 2006, her dark fantasy GLBT story, Body Parts, won its category in the Dream Realm Awards. Adrianna has written more than 100 stories, short, novella, and novel length, delving into many facets of the human condition - contemporary, futuristic, and fantasy, and all the flavors therein and in between. In other words, wherever the story and the characters, as well as their intricate stories, take her imagination, then her pen and/or computer keyboard, are sure to follow.
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Esmerelda's Secret - Adrianna Dane
Esmerelda, Massachusetts, a community built on tradition, held secrets and painful memories. John William (J.W.) Dalton and Willow MacKenzie had once been passionate lovers, two halves of one soul, torn apart by greed and misunderstanding. Now, ten years later, J.W. is sheriff and Willow has returned to Esmerelda to finally lay to rest the tormenting ghosts that continue to haunt her. Her love for J.W. has never died. Willow's return will open old wounds. Can J.W. protect her from the destructive truth that awaits?
This story is a work of original fiction. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author's imagination, or have been used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the author.
This book remains the copyrighted property of the author.
Copyright 2017 by Adrianna Dane
Cover Art Designs by T. A. Gallup
This story was originally released in June 2004 by Amber Quill Press/Amber Heat
CAUTION: This story contains explicit sexual situations and strong language. You must be over the age of 18 years of age to read this story.
Esmerelda’s Secret
By Adrianna Dane
Dream Romantic Unlimited, LLC
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WHEN THE TIRES OF HER car crossed the county line, the rhythm of Willow's body intuitively shifted. She quivered with awareness. Long dormant desire blazed unexpectedly. Her breath quickened. With fear or anticipation?
The glow of her car's headlights captured the dark wood and white paint of a road sign. Esmerelda, Population 10,592. First Established 1752.
Willow, shrouded in memories and the icy silence of a moonless, fall evening, traveled along the bittersweet familiarity of Main Street. Orange jack-o'-lanterns swaying in the wind cast a flickering ghostly glow to the lonely night. It was 11 p.m.
She remembered well the unwritten commandments of this small town on the edge of the Massachusetts border. No one stayed out past 9 p.m. In Esmerelda, the commandments and the law were laid down, and upheld, by the Family Dalton.
Willow was raised during the tenure of Sheriff Jack Dalton. Tradition held that the eldest Dalton son always stepped into the black-and-white embrace of law enforcement. This was a community defined by tradition. Tracing back to 1752, Daltons had stood guardian for the innocent. When Willow was growing up, those who crossed Jack, or anyone of Dalton blood, might as well fold up and call it a day.
Willow bitterly remembered being the recipient of the thunder of Dalton anger. After the unjustified gossip over the incident with Kenny Miller, a Dalton cousin, she might as well have been branded with the letter A.
Even her mother had encouraged her to leave town. She never asked Willow for the truth. But then, neither did the man who professed to love Willow. No one wanted the truth. Justice is blind was never a truer statement than in Willow's case.
In Esmeralda, a story didn't need to be true to spread like wildfire, or be held as gospel. At seventeen, Willow had been too naïve to withstand the suspicion and humiliation.
Once she graduated from Esmerelda High School, Willow fled to Boston. She never looked back. That was ten years ago. She wondered if anyone would even remember Willow MacKenzie today.
She turned into the parking lot of the Comfy Lodge Motor Inn and turned off the engine. Willow closed her eyes and inhaled deeply.
The week before, she had received a form letter from her mother's lawyer informing her that Moira MacKenzie had died. Her mother, the woman who had raised Willow from a sense of duty rather