Lady in Time
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"The difference between us is that I wouldn't hesitate to choose you in a million lifetimes, and you.. couldn't even choose me on this one."
Clara Valentine expected her life to be over the minute she leaped into the water. She awaited the dark and empty.
-- Not for a new life to begin. Never in her wildest dreams did she anticipate to find herself in another time; in another life. The next thing she knew, she was in 1789. An heiress of the Valentine Estate.
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