{"id":1582,"date":"2012-06-04T00:07:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T05:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theproviso.com\/?page_id=1582"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:22:32","slug":"as-yet-untold-stories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/extras\/familytree\/as-yet-untold-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"As Yet Untold Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From Stay<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Lucky One<\/p>\n

\nThey fell in love at 8. Made love at 15. Married at 18. Divorced at 29.<\/p>\n

Now pushing 40, Nash Piper has abandoned the career that destroyed his marriage, longing for the woman he\u2019s loved most of his life, for the child he\u2019s never met who bears his face but not his name.<\/p>\n

Dr. Melanie Merriwether wants nothing to do with the man who left her for superstardom, breaking her heart and every promise he ever made her. A cardiologist and the mother of the child she and Nash had struggled to have, Melanie has forced herself to move on.<\/p>\n

Eight years later, long after the world has given him up for dead, Nash walks into Melanie\u2019s Montana valley seemingly broke, homeless, starving\u2014<\/p>\n

\u2014only to find out just how far Melanie has moved on.<\/p><\/div>\n

New Favorite<\/p>\n

\nAnnie Franklin has one<\/em> goal: Independent wealth and the freedom to travel the globe collecting cabana boys. Then her \u201cbrother\u201d moves across the country (bastard), her fianc\u00e9 falls in love with another woman (eh, whatever), and her boss offers her a promotion (hot damn!). With no reason to stick around Chouteau County and one very big reason to leave it (her mother), she takes the promotion and moves to Omaha. No setback, no obstacle is so great that Annie can\u2019t flow around it without a ripple\u2014<\/p>\n

\u2014until a greasy tow truck driver shows up to tow her rattletrap Honda with a blown headgasket, and rebuffs her when she makes it perfectly clear she\u2019d like to blow his<\/em> gasket. He won\u2019t even share his Fruit Stripe gum!<\/p>\n

Two months later, after a nasty run-in with Rafferty Brogan\u2019s mother and one bittersweet impromptu date with him, Annie quits her job and runs back to Chouteau County\u2014in love and her plan meaningless. With nothing to do at home and no one who interests her, she takes the job of getting her ex-fianc\u00e9 elected Missouri\u2019s next governor.<\/p>\n

The trouble starts when a tow truck driver catches up with her on the campaign trail to offer her a piece of his \u2026 Fruit Stripe gum.<\/p><\/div>\n

From Paso Doble<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Seeing Red<\/p>\n

\nPilar Bautista is a graduate student in library science, archive management, and restoration who is vehemently anti-bullfight. There\u2019s just one problem: Her (far) older brother is the best matador in Spain, whose wealth funds her lifestyle\u2014and her causes. Her friends know she is somehow attached to \u201cThe Industry,\u201d but they don\u2019t know how<\/em> attached she is to it.<\/p>\n

Alejandro Molina is a young third-generation matador skating to the number one position on his family heritage, his looks, and his technical proficiency in the bullring. However, between his grandfather\u2019s growing frustration with his technical proficiency<\/em> and his number one rival\u2019s contempt for his technical proficiency<\/em>, being number one means nothing. He lacks It<\/em>, whatever It<\/em> is, that makes his rival a legend. He has no idea what It<\/em> is or how to get It<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Pili and Sandro meet in a crowded pasteler\u00eda after her boyfriend storms out in a fit of anger, when Sandro and his compadres have no place to sit to discuss a business deal. Something about Pili piques their interest and instead of business, they spend their time getting her story and cheering her up.<\/p>\n

It only takes another meeting at the pasteler\u00eda for Pili and Sandro to fall in love, then promptly figure out who the other is. They mutually, sadly, decide to walk away before it gets any deeper. But then \u2026 then<\/em> for no reason whatsoever, Pili gives Sandro the greatest gift he could ever imagine\u2014 It<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Now<\/em>, if they want it to work, they need to decide who\u2019s going to give up what.<\/div>\n

From under my bed<\/a><\/p>\n

Rook Takes Queen<\/p>\n

\nFrankie is a bestselling author with the social skills of a nine-year-old, daddy issues, and a face that made her plastic surgeon famous. Rook is a weather-beaten divorced horse breeder and county sheriff with a few years of politicking behind him and one very troubled child still at home. They aren\u2019t that<\/em> far apart in age, but between Frankie\u2019s na\u00efve expectations and Rook\u2019s world-weary cynicism, their romance is doomed from the start. They part bitterly, each going on with what they were doing before they ran into each other\u2014<\/p>\n

\u2014until some months later when a stalker has ripped Frankie inside-out and outside-in again, and Frankie\u2019s only support, her childhood friend, her Person<\/em>, Knox Hilliard, calls Rook in a desperate bid to hide her until Knox can deal with her stalker in his trademark fashion. Rook hasn\u2019t changed, but Frankie\u2019s far less na\u00efve, far more bitter, and after what her stalker did to her face, now looks her age. Rook doesn\u2019t have to fix her. He just has to protect her. After that, well \u2026 It\u2019s anyone\u2019s game, but now<\/em> Frankie\u2019s more than willing to play it\u2014and win.<\/div>\n

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