Red Lily
Chapter One
Harper House
July 2005
Tired down through the marrow, Hayley yawned
until her jaw cracked. Lily's head was heavy on her shoulder,
but every time she stopped rocking, the baby would
squirm and whimper, and those little fingers would clutch
at the cotton tank Hayley was sleeping in.
Trying to sleep in, Hayley corrected and murmured
hushing noises as she sent the rocker creaking again.
She knew it was somewhere in the vicinity of four in the
morning, and she'd already been up twice before to rock
and soothe her fretful daughter.
She'd tried at about the two a.m. mark to snuggle the
baby into bed with her so they'd both get some sleep. But
Lily would have nothing but the rocker.
So Hayley rocked and dozed, rocked and yawned, and
wondered if she'd ever get eight straight again in this lifetime.
She didn't know how people did it. Especially single
mothers. ... read full excerpt from Red Lily: Book Three of the In the Garden Trilogy ebook
