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Her father loved to tell his daughters stories of their ancestors, of the Montgomerys in Scotland, in England, and in early America. You should go up to your room and have a bit of a lie-down before supper. Youcan’tmarry her. “Gloria!” she said before she realized it was the French heiress.

” Nicholas looked away from his brother. I never went back, and neither will you. She was the witch who had called him forth to another time and place. Gone from the girl’s face was the smug, I’m-going-to-get-you look.