Table Of ContentHe awoke with a woman in his arms.
Even with his eyes closed, Talbot felt the warm, feminine body curled against
him, and his nose was filled with the heady scent of sweet strawberries. As he
drew in a breath, he suddenly remembered. The crash…Elizabeth…the forest.
His eyes snapped open and he saw that at some point in the night, their bodies
had not only sought the soft, leaf-covered ground but each other’s.
Her face was turned toward his, and he took the opportunity to study her with the
glow of morning dawn seeping through the trees. He could easily understand
why his brother had been so enthralled with her. She was lovely, with sinfully
thick lashes and an inviting mouth that urged a man to plunder its depths. His
finger itched to caress her cheek, touch her full bottom lip….
He wanted her. For years, he’d wanted her—and in that desire had been his
shame.
Elizabeth McCarthy was—and would always be—his brother’s woman.
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Lost in His Arms
CARLA CASSIDY
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CARLA CASSIDY
is an award-winning author who has written over thirty-five books for
Silhouette. In 1995, she won Best Silhouette Romance from Romantic Times
Magazine for Anything for Danny. In 1998, she also won a Career Achievement
Award for Best Innovative Series from Romantic Times Magazine.
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writing many more books and bringing hours of pleasure to readers.
Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Epilogue
Chapter One
T
albot McCarthy was not a happy camper.
Seated in his single-engine Cessna, ready for takeoff, he glanced quickly at
the woman in the seat next to him. Her tawny hair shone with rich highlights as
the last of the day’s sun danced in through the windows.
It had been almost a year since he’d seen her, but time hadn’t dulled the
intense blue of her eyes or softened the determined thrust of her chin.
Elizabeth McCarthy.
His brother’s ex-wife.
Before they’d left her apartment, she’d changed from her feminine, tailored
dress into a pair of jeans, a T-shirt and a windbreaker to ward off the coolness of
the early-autumn evening.
The jeans clung to her long slender legs, and the pale tangerine-colored T-
shirt reflected the color of peaches onto her cheeks. He tried not to notice the
thrust of her breasts against the cotton fabric.
She looked totally relaxed and self-possessed as they awaited takeoff. Then
he spied her hands. They were clasped together in her lap, connected so tightly
that her knuckles and fingers had turned white.
“You don’t like to fly?” he asked, guessing at the cause of her obvious
distress.
“Not particularly,” she replied, her voice breathy with tension. “If I must fly,
I prefer big commercial planes, not planes no bigger than my bathroom.”
“Don’t worry, I’m an excellent pilot,” he said.
“Yeah, and the Titanic was unsinkable.”
At that moment the tower gave him the okay for takeoff. He turned onto the
runway and taxied to a high enough speed to begin his ascent.
He didn’t speak to her again until they had reached their cruising altitude.
“You can relax now. It should be smooth sailing from here to Branson.”
Her hands unclasped and she drew a deep breath, audible above the drone of
the engine. “Do you fly often?”
“Fairly regularly,” he replied. “As CEO of McCarthy Industries, there’s
always a meeting to attend or some troubleshooting to be done at one of our
branch offices. I got tired of depending on airline schedules, and I like the
