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The narrative then shifts to Eden Rogers managing the harsh demands of sustaining Onemahutu, her dwindling resources, and her grandfather’s failing health. As spring reveals depleted soil and the threat of drought looms, Eden’s determination to protect family hopes collides with personal vulnerability and escalating consequences.","1537$2.8911537MarchHARLEQUIN  1PRESENTS®DOWNUNDERROBYNDONALD  \nThe Golden Mask  \nISBN□-373-11537-7  \n15598b  \nShe willingly gave himwhat he askedfor  \n\"Is this comfort you're offering,\"Blade asked,hismouth coming to rest on the soft hollow at thebase of her throat,“or something else,Eden?”  \nThe words didn't impinge.Until his hand slid upand cupped her breast.  \nThe gentle touch branded her right through herskin to her bones,setting every cell and nerveend on fire.Automatically she pulled away,hersoft red mouth trembling with shock,her eyesdilated and dazedly green in her flushed face.  \nHe wasn't smiling,as she had half thought hemight be.With an impassive face,he surveyedher with insulting detachment,obviously notnearly as affected as she had been by those wildkisses.  \nThen,because she could still feel his touch andbecause it didn't seem as though he was goingto say anything,she whispered,\"I don't thinkthat was a good idea.”  \nROBYNDONALD  \nThe Golden Mask  \nHarlequin Books  \nIf you purchased this book without a cover you should be awarethat this book is stolen property.It was reported as\"unsold anddestroyed\"to the publisher,and neither the author nor thepublisher has received any payment for this“stripped book.”  \nHarlequin Presents first edition March 1993ISBN0-373-11537-7  \nOriginal hardcover edition published in 1992by Mills &Boon Limited  \n# THE GOLDEN MASK\n\nCopyright 1992 by Robyn Donald.All rights reserved.Except for use in any review,the reproduction or utilizationof this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic,mechanical or other means,now known or hereafter invented,including xerography,photocopying and recording.  \nor in any information storage or retrieval system,is forbidden withoutthe permission of the publisher,Harlequin Enterprises Limited,225 Duncan Mill Road,Don Mills,Ontario,Canada M3B 3K9.  \nAll the charactersin this book have no existence outside theimagination of the author and have no relation whatsoever toanyone bearing the same namG or names.They are not evendistantly inspired by any individual known or unknown to theauthor,and all incidents are pure invention.  \n⑧are Trademarks registered in the United States Patent andTrademark Office and in other countries.  \nCHAPTER ONE  \nEDEN ROGERS pushed a thin,tanned hand through thesticky strands of her hair.Beneath her the gelding ambledgently across crisp grass,but,in spite of the fact thatshe was dying for the cup of tea she was going to makeas soon as she got down to the homestead,Eden was sotired that it didn’t occur to her to encourage Rusty tomove faster.  \nHer bones ached,her arms and back and legs weregoing to be stiff tomorrow,she was sunburnt,but atleast the calves were now drenched against worms.Scanning the cattle she was driving ahead of her,shesmiled at the small black calves frolicking beside theirmothers.It was all worth it—even,she thought distaste-fully,the coat of dust and sweat that stuck unpleasantlyto her fine skin.  \nThin dark brows drawn together,she gazed around.It was spring,and although the grass made a thick swardthere was a tell-tale yellowness to it that spoke of toomany years without enough fertiliser.Not that it wasany use worrying.This year there was no money for anyfertiliser at all.  \nNormally Eden slept each night as though someonehad hit her on the head,but occasionally a lethal com-bination of exhaustion and apprehension forced a fewtears from her.In the morning she managed to disguisethe marks on her tanned,fine-boned face,for the oneconstant concern in her life was that she not worry hergrandfather.Sam Rogers was eighty,tired and sick,waiting for death.He was all she had.  \nHe hated being left alone while she went out each day,but it had to be done;there was no one else to workOnemahutu.At least he could now get around the house  \n6  \nwith the aid of sticks,although he spent most of thelonely days dozing in his chair.  \nThe cattle spread out across the sward wereOnemahutu's future,the lifeline.There we","cbCaihTZZUXgCUd4","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihTZZUXgCUd4","pdf",21231760,3,196,"English","en",105,"# The Golden Mask\n## She willingly gave him what he asked for\n## Eden Rogers’ hardship at Onemahutu","[{\"question\":\"What happens between Eden and Blade in the opening scene?\",\"answer\":\"Blade touches Eden in a way that overwhelms her, and Eden immediately recognizes it as not a good idea. 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