title: Rumblewick's Diary #2: My Unwilling Witch Sleeps Over
author:  Hiawyn Oram 
description: Hiawyn Oram is a very successful author of children's books in Britain. Her books include the popular Not-So-Grizzly Bear Stories, the Animal Heroes series, and <em>Mona the Vampire</em>. She lives in London. <br /><br />Sarah Warburton studied art at Bangor, North Wales. She has illustrated <em>Tilly and the Wild Goats</em> and the Happy Ever After series for Orchard Books, and she lives in Bristol, England.
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  August 2006
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Lady of the Night
  
  
  ## Cordia Byers
  
  
  
  
  
  LOVE'S CAPTIVE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "Unhand me. I'll not be forced to return to Sedgewick against my will. Nor
  will I allow you to decide what is best for me. I have been your prisoner for
  the last time. I surrendered to you last night but never again. You may be the
  Lord of Sedgewick Castle and command all that you survey but I am not your
  property. In my time, a woman belongs only to herself."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Katharina tried to extricate her arm from his viselike hold, only to find
  herself held captive by both arms. Kane pulled her against him, so close that
  their breaths mingled. Time seemed to stretch into eternity as they both
  became aware of the warmth spreading between them.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "Blast it, Katharina," Kane ground out. "What I do is for your own good."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A low moan of anguish escaped Kane as he surrendered to the torrid hunger that
  pushed all thought aside. The heat of his need for her incinerated everything
  in its path as