Wanted

Excerpt from Wanted: A Husband: A Novel On the second landing she paused to divide a few moments between hard breathing and hat ing the imitation-leather roll beneath her arm. Including the wall-paper design within, just rejected by B. Riegel 85 Sons, the whole affair might have weighed two pounds. To its ill conditioned bearer it felt like two hundred. She set a hand to her panting chest and a thorn promptly impaled her thumb. Tearing off the offending rose Darcy flung it over the banister ...