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HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS

EUGENE, OREGON

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to events or locales, is entirely coincidental.

FLORA'S WISH

Copyright © 2013 by Kathleen Y'Barbo

Published by Harvest House Publishers

Eugene, Oregon 97402

www.harvesthousepublishers.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Y'Barbo, Kathleen.

Flora's wish / Kathleen Y'Barbo.

p. cm. – (The secret lives of Will Tucker ; bk. 1)

ISBN 978-0-7369-5210-1 (pbk.)

ISBN 978-0-7369-5212-5 (eBook)

I. Title.

PS3625.B37F57 2013

813'.6–dc23

2012027222

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To My Bonus Kids

Clint and Katie Turner

Emily and Josh Miller

Alex and Liz Turner

Austin Turner

Bailey Turner

Kyle Turner

Logan Turner

I love you like my own…

Over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

C
OLOSSIANS
3:14

“I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

~ Jane Austen,
Pride and Prejudice

“To believe every man to be honest till he is found out to be a thief, is a motto most self-respecting men cling to; but we detectives on the contrary would not gain salt to our bread, much less the bread itself, if we adopted such a belief. We have to believe every man a rogue till, after turning all sorts of evidence inside out, we can only discover he is an honest man. And even then I am much afraid we are not quite sure of him.”

~ Andrew Forrester,
The Female Detective (May 1864)

Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Thirty-One

Chapter Thirty-Two

Chapter Thirty-Three

Chapter Thirty-Four

Chapter Thirty-Five

Acknowledgments

Discussion Questions

About the Author

May 1887

The Crescent Hotel

Eureka Springs, Arkansas

T
he last thing Flora Brimm needed was to lose another fiancé. While there was no evidence to prove Will Tucker had met the same unfortunate fate as the other four—an early and untimely demise—there was also no prospective groom in residence at the Crescent Hotel this evening.

Flora stepped off the elevator and walked toward the ballroom to make her entrance late and alone. She paused to take in the grand sweep of glittering chandeliers and the wide expanse of floor-to-ceiling windows reflecting the electric light back into the room. Oversized potted palms climbing almost high enough to touch the ceiling hid the four corners of the grand room.

Though the ballroom was crowded with guests, Flora glanced around in hopes of finding the man she hoped to wed. The search was futile, of course, as tonight's celebration of the Crescent's first anniversary was a masked ball. Those who dared ignore the requirement were given a generic mask, white for the ladies and black for the gentlemen. And yet she hoped that somehow she might recognize him.

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