Innocent Fire (34 page)

BRENDA JOYCE
is the bestselling author of thirty-nine novels and five novellas. She has won many awards, and her debut novel,
Innocent Fire
, won a Best Western Romance Award. She has also won the highly coveted Best Historical Romance Award for
Splendor
and two Lifetime Achievement Awards from
Romantic Times BOOKreviews.
There are more than fourteen million copies of her novels in print and she is published in more than a dozen foreign countries.

A native New Yorker, she now lives in southern Arizona with her son, dogs, and her Arabian and half-Arabian reining horses. Brenda divides her time between her twin passions—writing powerful love stories and competing with her horses at regional and national levels. For more information about Brenda and her upcoming novels, please visit her website:
www.brendajoyce.com.

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A
FTER
I
NNOCENCE

B
EYOND
S
CANDAL

C
APTIVE

T
HE
F
IRES OF
P
ARADISE

F
IRESTORM

T
HE
G
AME

I
NNOCENT
F
IRE

P
ROMISE OF THE
R
OSE

S
CANDALOUS
L
OVE

S
ECRETS

V
IOLET
F
IRE

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

INNOCENT FIRE
. Copyright © 1988 by Brenda Joyce Dworman. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

EPub © Edition DECEMBER 2008 ISBN: 9780061984464

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