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Luke TurnerAn outcast, they called him "bad blood" from his boyhood in a tarpaper shack to his nights in a prison cell. Sarah McGowanHer roots were deep in the Texas soil. But her secret shameful love for her sister's husband kept her from happiness.Pride and their love of the Texas land threw them together in an unlikely marriage. Then, as unexpectedly as a spring flood, long pent-up passion exploded in a storm that was to consume them both...

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