title: Winds of Change: Island of Flowers, Untamed
author:  Nora Roberts 
description: Nora Roberts is the number-one New York Timesbestselling author of The Witness, Chasing Fire, and The Search, among other titles. She is also the author of the bestselling futuristic suspense series written under the pen name J. D. Robb. There are more than 400 million copies of her novels in print.
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  ## Her Mother's Keeper
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Nora Roberts
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### Silhouette Romance #215
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### April 1983
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### ISBN: 0671572156
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The taxi zipped through the airport traffic. Gwen let out a long sigh as
  theLouisianaheat throbbed around her. She shifted as the thin material of her
  ivory lawn blouse dampened against her back. The relief was brief. Squinting
  out of the window, she decided the July sun hadn't changed in the two years
  she had been away. The cab veered away from downtownNew Orleansand cruised
  south. Gwen reflected that very little else here had changed in the past two
  years but herself. Spanish moss still draped the roadside trees, giving even
  the sun-drenched af-ternoon a dreamlike effect. The warm, thick scent of
  flowers still wafted through the air. The atmosphere was touched with an
  easygoing indolence she nearly had 