But then, there were times Emma barely recognized herself anymore.Ī tight, panicky feeling cinched Emma’s lungs as she surreptitiously scanned the crowd of passengers just arrived at Glasgow’s airport. She shoved her sunglasses farther up her nose, praying no one would recognize her before she retrieved her luggage, found her ride and dropped off the face of the earth. But if she had to pretend one more time it didn’t hurt that he’d fathered a child with a different woman… “I know Drew will be a wonderful father…” Instead, she’d given an Oscar-worthy performance, forcing a brilliant smile. Read your own damned press clippings and you should be able to figure it out. How the hell do you think I feel? She’d wanted to fling back at them. “Emma, your fans are dying to know how you feel.” The joyous new parents stood out in sharp counterpoint to the paparazzi shots of Emma back in L.A., thronged by reporters clamoring for her reaction to the news about Drew’s child. Images in living color flashed into Emma’s head: The picture of Drew Lawson, the only man she’d ever loved, leaving the hospital in Whitewater, Illinois, his face aglow as he cradled his new daughter in his arms while Emma’s onetime best friend, Jessie, leaned against him, her shy face luminous. Jade Star actress faces studio insiders’ doubts to attempt role of a lifetime…Her beaming ex-husband brings home the baby she refused to give him. She knew the fine print on the glossy cover by heart. Unfortunately, neither huddling deeper into the enveloping folds of her raincoat nor tugging the brim of her Witness Protection ball cap lower to shadow her face could shield Emma from the pain. TWENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Emma McDaniel winced as she recognized the headline blazing across the tabloid a college-aged girl was devouring in the airport baggage claim. You are never more my hero than when you utter that long-suffering sigh I love so much and say, “I’ll do it. Thank you for twenty-six years of catching frightened strays and breaking up dogfights for me. To my husband, Dave, who has helped rescue more puppies than I can count. Will he dare to leave the safety of his history books and risk his heart with a woman of flesh and blood? Scarred by a disastrous marriage of his own, Jared has little use for women–and none at all for pampered starlets.But as the two lose themselves in the lore of the past, Jared is stunned to find in Emma a kindred spirit. Jared Butler will help her become the legendary Lady Aislinn…unless his surly attitude tempts Emma to slay him with the lady's sword first. Fleeing the press and her own despair, Emma heads to Scotland for the role of a lifetime.There, brooding historian Dr. But stardom came at great personal cost–a painful divorce from her childhood sweetheart and the shattering of all her dreams. Fame, fortune and true love…Emma McDaniel thought she had it all.
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