Moody, some people would call it. Moira burst through the door placing all of her bags onto the chair next to the only free table in the large room. V...rious items of study—a skeleton, field tools, compasses and maps—littered the remaining desks and tables. On the far side of the room, in a dimly lit glass case stood the idol. It was approximately two feet high and very thick. The material it was made from was still be determined, but it was assumed that it was another form of gold, mostly from. I couldn’t wait, but would have to do so. In the meantime I stayed busy. I put the final touches to the house, saw that the food he liked would be in the refrigerator and pantry and replenished my stock of romantic smelling candles. I’d always been such a fool for romance and hoped he was too. Mark arrived the middle of October, my favorite time of the year when the North Georgia Mountains appeared to be in flames, so many Red Maples changing the color of their leaves…Oaks with their shades of. William saw something he wasn't expecting. Disbelieving, he wiped his gloved hand across his face. But his eyes hadn't deceived. "My God, she is beautiful." He smiled at the woman who shied away, then shouted, "My lady!" But the woman ran through an open door into a ramshackle workshop.Climbing from his horse, William winced as his leather shoes squelched in the churned mud. Guiding his horse by its reins, he slipped and slid across the road until he made it to this wooden building in which the. Trish noted that she needed to teach the girl heel, but that was not a lesson for today.Leading her puppy into the kennel side of the store, she noted with amusement as Dixie looked at each of the kennels other occupants as she passed them. Almost all of whom came forward to bark and sniff at the new addition to the kennel. Trish noted that the girl was cowering as one of the particular fierce dogs rushed to bark madly at her. Stopping at end of the row of cages, she opened the door. With a.