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  She tried to smile but her chin trembled and sobs shook her frame. “I knew at that moment... I’d come home... to my Birdie.”

  Birdie stood and folded her arms around the woman who’d raised her. Choked up, she begged, “Please don’t cry, Aunt Patty.” She sniffed and pulled one of the darned handkerchiefs she’d finally gotten used to from a pocket and blew her nose.

  Tad stood beside Birdie with one arm around her, the other on the older woman’s shoulder. “Birdie’s right. This is a happy time—one to celebrate.”

  “Aunt Patty, Tad and my family have been my life these past thirty years. Only one thing could have made me happier—to have you here with us.

  “Welcome home, Aunt Patty!”

  The End

  Other Books by Linda LaRoque

  Contemporary Westerns

  Forever Faithful

  Investment of the Heart

  When the Ocotillo Bloom

  Futuristic

  Born in Ice

  Time Travel

  The Turquoise Legacy

  My Heart Will Find Yours

  and

  Flames on the Sky

  A Way Back

  Desires of the Heart

  A Law of Her Own

  A Marshal of Her Own

  A Love of Her Own

  Birdie’s Nest

  Linda’s Bio

  Linda LaRoque is a Texas girl, but the first time she got on a horse, it tossed her in the road dislocating her right shoulder. Forty years passed before she got on another, but it was older, slower, and she was wiser. Plus, her students looked on and it was important to save face.

  A retired teacher who loves West Texas, its flora and fauna, and its people, Linda’s stories paint pictures of life, love, and learning set against the raw landscape of ranches and rural communities in Texas and the Midwest. She is a member of RWA, her local chapter of HOTRWA, NTRWA and Texas Mountain Trail Writers.

  Linda writes contemporary western romances, time travel romances and futuristic romances.

  Visit Linda at these locations.

  http://www.lindalaroqueauthor.blogspot.com

  www.lindalaroque.com

  https://www.facebook.com/linda.laroque

  http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/649259.Linda_LaRoque

  Linda’s Amazon Page

  Table of Contents

  Table of Contents

  Title Page

  Blurb

  Copyright

  Chapter One

  Chapter Two

  Chapter Three

  Chapter Four

  Chapter Five

  Chapter Six

  Chapter Seven

  Chapter Eight

  Chapter Nine

  Chapter Ten

  Chapter Eleven

  Chapter Twelve

  Chapter Thirteen

  Chapter Fourteen

  Chapter Fifteen

  Chapter Sixteen

  Chapter Seventeen

  Chapter Eighteen

  Chapter Nineteen

  Chapter Twenty

  Chapter Twenty-One

  Chapter Twenty-Two

  Chapter Twenty-Three

  Chapter Twenty-Four

  Chapter Twenty-Five

  Chapter Twenty-Six

  Chapter Twenty-Seven

  Chapter Twenty-Eight

  Chapter Twenty-Nine

  Chapter Thirty

  Chapter Thirty-One

  Chapter Thirty-Two

  Chapter Thirty-Three

  Chapter Thirty-Four

  Epilogue

  Other Books by Linda LaRoque

  Linda’s Bio