restaurant.”
Restaurant? Buck thought that over as he lifted Farrie into the back.
“They told me,” Farrie was saying happily, “and Mr. Ravenwood the music teacher did, too, that I could be a country and western singer like Reba McEntire and Patsy Cline.” She looked at him with adoration in her eyes. “But you know, I think now I’d rather be a
“Law-enforcement officer,” Buck said automatically.
He sighed as he slid behind the wheel.
Somehow, Buck found, looking around, he missed the damned dog.
“Oh, look at it snow!” Scarlett cuddled close to him in the front seat, her warm mouth at his ear. Buck put his arm around her. In the Blazer’s back seat, Farrie was singing softly to herself.
“We never had a Christmas like this one,” Scarlett whispered happily.
Buck recklessly leaned over, considering that he was driving with only one arm, to kiss the top of her beautiful head. He could just about gauge the reaction in Nancyville – in all of north Georgia – when their engagement announcement showed up on the television evening news. But Nancyville would just have to get used to it, he told himself. As far as he was concerned, the Scraggses were there to stay.
“Neither,” Sheriff Buck told his fiancee with great satisfaction as they turned into the road to the mountain, “have I.”
Biography
Maggie Daniels
Maggie Davis, who also writes under the pen names of Katherine Deauxville and Maggie Daniels, is the author of over 25 published novels, included A CHRISTMAS ROMANCE (as Maggie Daniels) and the best-selling romances BLOOD RED ROSES, DAGGERS OF GOLD, THE AMETHYST CROWN, THE CRYSTAL HEART, and EYES OF LOVE, all written as Katherine Deauxville. Ms. Davis is a former feature writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, copywriter for Young & Rubican in New York, and assistant in research to the chairman of the Department of Psychology at Yale University. She taught three writing courses at Yale, and was a two-time guest writer/artist at the International Cultural center in Hammamet, Tunisia. She has written for the Georgia Review, Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, Holiday, and Venture magazines. She is the winner of four Reviewer’s Choice Awards and one Lifetime Achievement Award for romantic comedy from Romantic Times Magazine, and received the Silver Pen Award from Affaire de Coeur Magazine. She is also listed in Who’s Who 2000. Ms. Davis’s Civil War novel THE FAR SIDE OF HOME was re-released and published in 1992. Her romantic comedy ENRAPTURED, set in the Regency Era, was published in June of 1999 and the following September, Leisure/Dorchester Books published her latest historical romance THE SUN GOD in the Leisure romance anthology Masquerade. Her novella ALL OR NOTHING AT ALL is included in the August 2000 anthology Strangers in the Night. Further information for Maggie Davis can be found at her web page, www.maggiedavis.com.
