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Through lively conversation with Undine, the women tease out an imagined ideal “perfect man,” building the description from physical strength, worldly experience, curiosity, and humor. The early scenes establish camaraderie, playful wit, and an undercurrent of Serafina’s shift from cynical assumptions toward renewed possibilities.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nThank you for purchasing this  \neBook.  \nAt Sourcebooks we believe one thing:  \nBOOKS CHANGE LIVES .  \nWe would love to invite you to receive exclusive rewards. Sign up now for VIP savings, bonus content, early access to new ideas we're developing, and sneak peeks at our hottest titles!  \nHappy reading!  \nSIGN UP NOW!  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCopyright © 2015 by Gwyn Cready  \nCover and internal design © 2015 by Sourcebooks, Inc. Cover art by Gene Mollica  \nSourcebooks and the colophon are registered trademarks of Sourcebooks, Inc.  \nAll rights reserved. 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Box 4410, Naperville, Illinois 60567–4410  \n(630) 961–3900  \nFax: (630) 961–2168  \n[www.sourcebooks.com](www.sourcebooks.com)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nFront Cover  \nTitle Page  \nCopyright  \nOne  \nTwo  \nThree  \nFour  \nFive  \nSix  \nSeven  \nEight  \nNine  \nTen  \nEleven  \nTwelve  \nThirteen  \nFourteen  \nFifteen  \nSixteen  \nSeventeen Eighteen  \nNineteen  \nTwenty  \nTwenty-one  \nTwenty-two  \nTwenty-three  \nTwenty-four  \nTwenty-five  \nTwenty-six  \nTwenty-seven  \nTwenty-eight  \nTwenty-nine  \nThirty  \nThirty-one  \nThirty-two  \nThirty-three  \nThirty-four  \nThirty-five  \nThirty-six  \nThirty-seven  \nThirty-eight  \nThirty-nine Forty  \nForty-one  \nForty-two  \nForty-three  \nForty-four  \nForty-five  \nForty-six  \nForty-seven  \nForty-eight  \nForty-nine  \nFifty  \nFifty-one  \nFifty-two  \nAcknowledgments  \nAn Excerpt from Just in Time for a Highlander Two  \nAbout the Author  \nBack Cover  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor Teri. Thankyou for a lifetime of laughter and support. Your father said it best: “Now that’s what I call a friendship.”  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nOne  \nThe Hollow Crown Inn, Edinburgh, 1706  \n“What if one could piece together a perfect man the way Abby’s dressmaker has pieced together the perfect gown?” mused Serafina Fallon, gazing appreciatively on the neatly pinned amethyst silk with soon-to-be-beaded sleeves her friend Abby Kerr modeled before the mirror. Serafina remembered a time when she had not regarded the possibilities of the masculine sex with quite so much cynicism. If her former fiancé, Edward, had been a gown, he would have been a cheap printed cotton, finished to look like Oriental satin—very much like the gowns Serafina’s reduced circumstances forced her wear—but betraying its inferiority within the first few wearings.  \nUndine appraised the half-completed dress with her knowing fortuneteller ’s gaze and took a generous sip of the Kerr whiskey.“If we could, my friends, what sort of man would we piece together?”  \nAbby, who wore a veneer of solemnity in public to earn the respect of the clansmen she led, could not subdue her natural vivacity in private.“Start with strong arms,” she said, quirking her brow.  \nUndine smiled.“And a mind nurtured by experience and curiosity.”“Add a sense of humor that makes his eyes twinkle,” Abby said,“and a pair of calves that do the same for mine.”  \nUndine laughed and filled Serafina’s glass.","cbCaipcQ0HQTauti","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipcQ0HQTauti","pdf",2369795,358,"English","en",105,"# One - The Hollow Crown Inn, Edinburgh, 1706\n## Abby Kerr and Serafina Fallon\n## Undine’s conversation and the ideal man","[{\"question\":\"Where does the story begin?\",\"answer\":\"The opening chapter is set at the Hollow Crown Inn in Edinburgh in 1706.\"},{\"question\":\"Who are the main people in the early scene?\",\"answer\":\"Serafina Fallon, Abby Kerr, and Undine are together as Abby models a dress and the three talk animatedly.\"},{\"question\":\"What do the characters discuss at the beginning?\",\"answer\":\"They discuss what kind of “perfect man” could be imagined or “pieced together,” using traits like strong arms, experience and curiosity, and a sense of humor.\"}]","First Time with a Highlander - 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