title: A Day Away: An Anthology
author:  Nora Roberts 
description: Nora Roberts is the bestselling author of more than two hundred romance novels. She was the first author to be inducted into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. Since her first bestseller in 1991, Nora's books have spent more than two hundred weeks in the number one spot on the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller list. There are more than five hundred million copies of her books in print, published in over thirty-four countries.<br />
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  ## A Man For Amanda
  
  
  
  
  
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  Prologue
  
  
  
  
  
  Bar Harbor June 8, 1913
  
  
  
  
  
  _In the afternoon, I walked to the cliffs. The day, our first day back in The
  Towers,_ _was bright and warm. The rumble of the sea was as I had left it ten
  long months_ _ago. There was a fishing boat chugging over the blue-green
  water, and a neat_ _sloop gliding cheerfully along. So much was the same, and
  yet, one vital change_ _dimmed the day for me._
  
  
  
  
  
  He was not there.
  
  
  
  
  
  _It was wrong of me to wish to find him waiting where I had left him so many_
  _months ago. To find him painting as he always did, slicing the brush against_
  _canvas like a dueler in the heat of battle. It was wrong of me to wish to see
  him_ _turn, look at me with those intense gray eyes_ — _to see him smile, to
  hear him say my_ _name._
  
  
  
  
  
  Yet I did wish it.
  
  
  
  
  
  _My heart was dancing in my breast as I rushed from the house to race across
  the_ 