In Victorian America, life isn't all parlors and parasols. Maggie MacLaren longs for a life beyond her hometown. One man stands in her way—Jake O’Neill. He is handsome and solid, like the steel town around them. He's a man she could love, but she won't. When wealthy Andrew Adair walks into Maggie’s library, he sweeps her into a world of luxury and power, where her dreams could come true. But Andrew's not all he seems to be. High above town, reclusive young widow Allison Kimball arrives at her family’s exclusive mountain retreat to find tucked into her carpetbag a love letter. So begins a series of secret notes and midnight trysts with her true love, a man she can't have. The world poised against them will soon come crashing down in the Johnstown Flood of 1889. Delve into this sweeping tale about fighting for love in the face of disaster. Previously published as Watermarks.

Secret Hearts

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR





J.L. Jarvis is a left-handed opera singer/teacher/lawyer who writes books. She received her undergraduate training from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a doctorate from the University of Houston. She now lives and writes in New Y...













ABOUT THE AUTHOR





J.L. Jarvis is a left-handed opera singer/teacher/lawyer who writes books. She received her undergraduate training from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a doctorate from the University of Houston. She now lives and writes in New Y...

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Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28 Author’s Note

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