title: Just A Little Romance: Romance and Poetry
author:  Susan Sundwall 
description: Susan Sundwall writes freelance, actively blogs, is a public speaker and the author of the Minnie Markwood mystery series.
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  Romance Unbound Publishing
  Presents
   
  Closely Held Secrets
   
   
  Claire Thompson
  
   
   
   
   
   
   
  Cover Art by Kelly Shorten
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  Ebook ISBN 9781937337490
  Copyright 2012 Claire Thompson
  All rights reserved
   
  
   
   
   
   
  Acknowledgement
  Poem used from A Match
  Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1837-1909
  
  Chapter 1
  The music was tumbling in pulsating, primal rhythm. Trisha imagined
  she could reach out and grab it, like some tangible thing. The blasting air-
  conditioning couldn’t quite foil the humid stickiness of the Texas summer
  heat outside.
  Trisha held her cold glass to her cheek for a moment, her eyes closed.
  She took a sip of her margarita and glanced again at the handsome man
  sitting a few seats down at the bar. For a moment he looked straight at her
  and she had to catch her breath.
  He was tall with thick blond hair and eyes such a perfect blue it was as if
  he’d stolen a piece of the sky. His face was tan and slightly craggy—the face
  of a man, not a boy. He was checking her out too, she