Poppies and Silk

<p class=ql-align-center><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Their summer affair is sweet...but will they survive when it takes a dangerous turn?</strong></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Widowed seamstress Poppy Daniels is finally free of a life of caretaking and she returns to Dogwood for a fresh start. With help from the mysterious shut-in friend who never reveals her face Poppy builds upon her seamstress business hoping to make it on her own. What she doesn't account for is the tall laughing cowboy that sweeps her off her feet.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ranch foreman Sol Williams isn't looking for love. It's hard enough after a long day's work to raise his wild little sister much less woo a woman into matrimony. But the minute the quiet sad-eyed Poppy offers to make his sister a new wardrobe wooing is the only thing on his mind. When she visits the ranch a summer affair isn't planned but can't be denied and their furtive trysts turn into something deeper.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The summer takes a dangerous turn as girls go missing and it starts to get close to home. What's worse the patterns begin to connect with Poppy's troubled past and she's afraid she knows exactly who is responsible...</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Poppies and Silk is a lengthy Historical Romance set in 1888 Texas. It is the second book in A Texas Bloom Series but can be read as a standalone. Due to violence graphic language and explicit sexual scenes it is recommended for readers 18+. For trigger warnings read the Content Page in the sample.</strong></p>