title: Valentine Hostage (Eyewitness)
author: Dawn Stewardson
description: <b>In steamy New Orleans, three people witnessed the same crime, testified against the same man and were then swept into the Witness Protection Program. But now there's new evidence, and these three witnesses are about to come out of hiding</b>
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  > Also by Jane Feather  
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  > VICE  
  VIOLET  
  VALENTINE  
  VELVET  
  VIXEN  
  VIRTUE  
  THE DIAMOND SLIPPER  
  THE SILVER ROSE  
  THE EMERALD SWAN  
  THE HOSTAGE BRIDE  
  A VALENTINE WEDDING  
  THE ACCIDENTAL BRIDE  
  THE LEAST LIKELY BRIDE  
  THE WIDOW’S KISS  
  ALMOST INNOCENT  
  TO KISS A SPY
  
  > and coming soon  
  KISSED BY SHADOWS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  > Prologue
  
  > SUSSEX, ENGLAND: 1762
  
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  The three boys scrambled up the steep grassy incline to the clifftop above
  Beachy Head. A gust of wind grabbed at the kite flying high against the
  brilliant blue sky. Philip Wyndham took another turn of the string around his
  hand as he increased his speed.
  
  > Gervase, the eldest of the three, paused, doubling over to catch his breath
  > with the painful wheezing of the asthmatic. Cullum held out a hand and
  > hauled his brother up with him to the clifftop. Cullum’s sturdy young body
  > had no difficulty taking Gervase’s slight weight despite the two-