Linda Colwell

Lavinia's Gift Linda Colwell

Kentucky, 1860 Beautiful Lavinia Carville possesses the Sight, just like her late mother. Through Laviniatries to suppress her abilities, she is still treated lake an outcast by the townsfolk. She takes solace in herloving husband, Joshua, and their two precious sons. But when Joshua is murdered by bushwhackers, Lavinia's World is torn apart. With her two children to care for and no one to manage the fields, Laviniais brought before the city tribunal to settle her husband's debts and decide the fate of her children. Wealthy landowner Colton Michaels wields great power and influence in the town and is respected bythe townsfolk. The tribunal awards Colton Lavinia's farm as payment for her debt, but without her land, she has no means of supporting her children. As the final heart-wrenching insult, Colton is grantedcustody of her boys to be raised by him and his older, equally wretched sister. Desperate to find a way to get her children back, Lavinia call on her aunt, Nanny Gathers. Nanny has theanswer to Lavinia's crisis: use Nanny's love potion to seduce Colton and marry him allowing her to bewith her boys again. Lavinia is revolted believing Colton may very well be behind her husband's murderas he was the sold benefactor of his death. But when Lavinia puts her plan into motion, she discovers that she misjudged her new husband, and shefinds unexpected happiness in her marriage. But her actions of unintended tragic consequences. With amurderer still on the loose and her future in Jeopardy once again, can she undo the damage donebefore its too lat