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Maggy's Child [067-011-5.0]

By: Karen Robards

Synopsis:

A mother's fierce love for her child keeps her in a loveless, abusive
marriage, until the real father appears. . . . Bestselling author
Karen Robards writes about contemporary issues that face women every
day. Maggy's Child has been nominated for the prestigious 1994 Golden
Choice Award. "A suspenseful tale of obsession and
passion."--Booklist.

Dell Books;

ISBN: 0440208300
Copyright 1994

Remember Gloria saying that a body's sins always come home to roost?

She was right, here I am."

The voice in her ear was husky, amused--and devastatingly familiar.

For an instant it seemed to Maggy Forrest that the world stopped
spinning on its axis. The solid oak of the bar against which she
leaned, the infectious twang of live country music, the dark, smoky
atmosphere of the nightclub itself all seemed to disappear.

Nothing was left in the whole world but Nick's voice in her ear.

One hand clenched around the cool brass bar rail as she turned slowly
to face him. There was no mistake, Her mind was not playing tricks on
her. On an instinctive level she had known it even before she turned
around, before her conscious mind registered the thick crop of rough
black curls and the broad-shouldered football player's physique.

"Nick."

He was as tall as she remembered, and as handsome, too. Sinfully
handsome, she had always thought, though with his tough pugilist's face
he shouldn't have been. His features were too rawly aggressive, his
jaw and cheekbones too broad, his lips too thin for true masculine
beauty. His nose still listed slightly to the left, the victim of one
too many street fights in his teenage years. Above the crooked nose,
his hazel-green eyes gleamed down at her.

Heavy-lidded and usually seeming almost sleepy, they were the key to
the devastating effect he had on the opposite sex, she had decided long
ago. Nick had always looked as though he knew everything there was to