Blackberry Pie
Chapter One
When he first glimpsed her out of the corner of his eye, he thought she was a
forest animal, a deer foraging for food. If he looked at it directly, the wild
creature would crash through the undergrowth and disappear into the emerald
depths of the woods. His gaze swung toward the movement in the briar patch and
focused, but she didn't run.
A pair of deep brown doe eyes stared back at him. The animal frozen among the
brambles was human. The sun shone on the crown of her dark brown hair, picking
out strands of gold and red. The tangled, curly mane spilled around her thin
face and down her back. Sweaty tendrils stuck to her forehead and fell across
one eye.
Her eyes drew him back again. They dominated her small face so much that he
scarcely noticed the elegant, high bridge of her nose or bowed upper lip of her
mouth.
Nathan's gaze slipped from her eyes to her body. The girl wore a sleeveless
dress of fabric so thin it clung to her like a second skin. The shift may once
have been colorful, but was now so faded and threadbare it was a dingy
off-white. But the cheap, cotton dress wa ... read full excerpt from Blackberry Pie ebook
