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A MAN OF HIS WORD Border lord Walter Scott of Rankilburn grief-stricken after burying his father goes to the forest seeking solace Instead he finds a half-naked young lady fleeing pursuit Wat offers his protection but honor demands that he return the golden-eyed beauty to her rightful husband-even though the last thing he wants is to see her in another mans arms A RUNAWAY BRIDE Molly Cockburn has fled her home family and the brutal scoundrel she was forced to wed Her pursuers are closing in when the powerful new Lord of Rankilburn bravely intervenes then promises to help prove her marriage unlawful Though fiercely loyal to her family Molly fears they might harm the man she is coming to love and now she must decide whether to remain faithful to her blood or to her heart.
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Amanda Scott, USA Today Bestselling Author and winner of Romance Writers of America's RITA/Golden Medallion (LORD ABBERLEY'S NEMESIS) and Romantic Times' Awards for Best Regency Author and Best Sensual Regency (RAVENWOOD'S LADY) , Lifetime Achievement (2007) and Best Scottish Historical (BORDER MOONLIGHT, 2008) , began writing on a dare from her husband. She has sold every manuscript she has written. Amanda is a fourth-generation Californian, who was born and raised in Salinas and graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in history from Mills College in Oakland. She did graduate work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializing in British History, before obtaining her Master's in History from California State University at San Jose. She now lives with her husband and son in northern California. As a child, Amanda Scott was a model for O'Connor Moffatt in San Francisco (now Macy's) . She was also a Sputnik child, one of those selected after the satellite went up for one of California's first programs for gifted children. She remained in that program through high school. After graduate school, she taught for the Salinas City School District for three years before marrying her husband, who was then a captain in the Air Force. They lived in Honolulu for a year, then in Papillion, Nebraska, for seven. Their son was born in Nebraska. They have lived in northern California since 1980. Scott grew up in a family of lawyers, and is descended from a long line of them. Her father was a three-term District Attorney of Monterey County before his death in 1955 at age 36. Her grandfather was City Attorney of Salinas for 36 years after serving two terms as District Attorney, and two of her ancestors were State Supreme Court Justices (one in Missouri, the other the first Supreme Court Justice for the State of Arkansas) . One brother, having carried on the Scott tradition in the Monterey County DA's office, is now a judge. The other is an electrician in Knoxville, TN, and her sister is a teacher in the Sacramento area. The women of Amanda Scott's family have been no less successful than the men. Her mother was a child actress known as Baby Lowell, who performed all over the west coast and in Hollywood movies, and then was a dancer with the San Francisco Opera Ballet until her marriage. Her mother's sister, Loretta Lowell, was also a child actress. She performed in the Our Gang comedies and in several Loretta Young movies before becoming one of the first women in the US Air Force. Scott's paternal grandmother was active in local and State politics and served as president of the California State PTA, and her maternal grandmother was a teacher (and stage mother) before working for Monterey County. The place of women in Scott's family has always been a strong one. Though they married strong men, the women have, for generations, been well educated and encouraged to succeed at wha
