Irresistible
Chapter One
January 1813
If they caught her, she would die.
"Damn ye, where are ye?"
The disembodied voice sounded eerily close. That it reached her ears at all over
the roaring of the surf terrified her. They were near. The knowledge goaded her
to greater speed despite the treacherous nature of the path underfoot. She had
to keep moving....
" 'Twill be the worse for ye, ye little besom, once I get me hands on ye again."
The voice came from almost directly overhead. Daring a quick glance upward,
Claire saw that the chilly white saucer of a moon had risen just high enough in
the sky to be visible over the lip of the cliff. By its wintry light, she could
barely make out the speaker's dark shape through the thick gray fog that had
rolled in from the sea sometime in the long hours after sunset. Her heart
pounding, she shivered and fought to keep her breathing from degenerating into
terrified, and possibly audible, panting. Dangerous as the trail she crept along
was, it was her only possible escape route. The spit of land her pursuers
searched was narrow, and it ended in a straight drop of more than ni ... read full excerpt from: Irresistible ebook
