Only 04 - Only Love

told around urban campfires, stories which point out that life is not a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing. There is more to life than defeat and despair. Life is full of possibilities. Victory is one of them. Joy is another.
    And that’s why people read popular fiction. To be reminded that life is worth the pain.
    —Elizabeth Lowell
    (This essay was originally published at www.elizabethlowell.com, a partner of www.writerspace.com.)

About the Author
    E LIZABETH L OWELL has over twenty million books in print. Her contemporary novels published by HarperCollins are: Desert Rain; To the Ends of the Earth; Remember Summer; Where the Heart Is. The Donovan novels— Amber Beach, Jade Island, Pearl Cove, and Midnight in Ruby Bayou —were instant New York Times bestsellers. Classic contemporary romances by Ms. Lowell include: Forget Me Not, Lover in the Rough, A Woman Without Lies; Beautiful Dreamer; Eden Burning. HarperCollins also publishes Ms. Lowell’s romance-suspense novels Moving Target and Running Scared. Ms. Lowell lives in Seattle with her husband, with whom she writes mystery novels under a pseudonym.
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Also by Elizabeth Lowell
    Amber Beach
    Autumn Lover
    Beautiful Dreamer
    Eden Burning
    Enchanted
    Forbidden
    Forget Me Not
    Jade Island
    Lover in the Rough
    Midnight in Ruby Bayou
    Moving Target
    Only His
    Only Love
    Only Mine
    Only You
    Pearl Cove
    Remember Summer
    Running Scared
    To the Ends of the Earth
    Untamed
    Where the Heart Is
    Winter Fire
    A Woman Without Lies
    This Time Love

Copyright
    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
    ONLY LOVE. Copyright © 1995 by Two of a Kind, Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
    HarperCollins e-book extra: “Popular Fiction: Why We Read It, Why We Write It” copyright © 1999-2002 by Two of a Kind, Inc. This essay was originally published at www.elizabethlowell.com, a partner of www.writerspace.com.
    EPub Edition © JUNE 2003 ISBN: 9780061802744
    First Avon Books printing: July 1995
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