Tears of Gold (68 page)

“’Tis a fine name. And to be sure, there’s none other I’d care to be takin’,” Mara answered as she reached up and met his seeking lips halfway.

The long voyage ahead of them was temporarily forgotten as they lost themselves in each other’s love.

Laurie McBain became a publishing phenomenon at age twenty-six with her first historical romance. She wrote seven romances, all of which were bestsellers, selling over eleven million copies. She is a winner of the Reviewer’s Choice Award. Laurie lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.