title: Bloodlines
author: Manning, Anne
description:  Kitty Forbes must choose between her love Colter and her child. For thirteen years Colter Ahern loves and hates Kitty, believing she betrayed him with his rival. Together again in their small hometown, their passion reignites,while jealousy threatens to destroy them all.
  
  Two ambitious young men, rivals for the love of a beautiful, spirited girl.... all bound by their love for a child who carries one man's name, the other man's blood.
  
  
  Colter Ahern leaves more than his sweetheart behind when he leaves his Maryland home in 1843 bound for Ireland. Not knowing the reason for her hurried
  marriage to his rival, Colter curses Kitty for her betrayal, even while she haunts him.
  
  
  Determined to be a good wife to the man who saved her from scandal, Kitty devotes herself to her husband and their children. Yet as their son grows more and more into the image of her first love, Kitty is reminded more and more of that one beautiful night spent in Colter's arms.
  
  
  Colter's return rekindles buried passions... and renews old hatreds. A deranged plan to keep them parted even after they are again free to love one another leads to murder and puts the child they all love in danger. Can Colter and Kitty save their son and at last have the life they threw away with a single night's indiscretion?