Lauri Robinson

The Bootlegger's Daughter


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      Shine your shoes, slip on your flapper dress and prepare for the ride of your life in Lauri Robinson’s rip-roaring new mini-series

       DAUGHTERS OF THE ROARING TWENTIES

       Their hair is short and their skirts are even shorter!

      Prohibition has made Roger Nightingale a wealthy man. With his bootlegging business in full swing, and his swanky hotel the most popular joint in town, his greatest challenge is keeping his four wilful daughters in check!

      Join

      Ginger, Norma Rose, Twyla and Josie as they foxtrot their way into four gorgeous men’s hearts!

      First travel with Ginger to Chicago in

      The Runaway Daughter Available now as a Mills & Boon® Historical Undone! eBook

      Then see Norma Rose go head-to-head with Ty Bradshaw in

      The Bootlegger’s Daughter Available now

      Can Forrest Reynolds tame mischievous Twyla?

      Find out in

      The Rebel Daughter Available September 2015

      And, last but not least, discover Josie’s secret in

      The Forgotten Daughter Available October 2015

       AUTHOR NOTE

      Welcome to the Roaring Twenties! A time in America when almost every citizen broke the law and new freedoms were discovered.

      When I started researching the first book in this series I was amazed by how deeply embedded Minnesota was in the illegal moonshine business. Decades before Prohibition hit, the University of Minnesota had perfected a corn hybrid that flourished in Minnesota’s shorter growing season. They named this hybrid ‘Minnesota 13’.

      Minnesota 13 was also the name given to the whiskey moonshined from this same corn. A hub of farmers distilling, selling and transporting Minnesota 13 was formed in Central Minnesota, the whiskey became known worldwide, and it was highly sought-after for years.

      The Bootlegger’s Daughter is the second book in my Daughters of the Roaring Twenties mini-series. Norma Rose is the oldest Nightingale sister, and very protective of her siblings and the family business Nightingale’s—a resort that caters to those with money to spend.

      Bootlegging Minnesota 13 is part of the family business, and where there are bootleggers there are prohibition men ready to take them down. Norma Rose recognises Ty Bradshaw as an agent as soon as she sets eyes on him, but when he also comes to her rescue she has some hard decisions to make.

      I hope you enjoy Norma Rose and Ty’s story, and reading about this time period that brought more freedom and independence for women.

      The Bootlegger’s Daughter

      Lauri Robinson

       www.millsandboon.co.uk

      A lover of fairytales and cowboy boots, LAURI ROBINSON can’t imagine a better profession than penning happily-ever-after stories about men (and women) who pull on a pair of boots before riding off into the sunset—or kick them off for other reasons. Lauri and her husband raised three sons in their rural Minnesota home, and are now getting their just rewards by spoiling their grandchildren.

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      To my dear friend Jennifer Edwards.

      Thanks for so graciously loaning me your mother’s name!

      Contents

       Cover

       Introduction

       Title Page

       About the Author

       Dedication

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Extract

       Copyright

       Chapter One

      White Bear Lake, Minnesota, 1925

      The steady tick of bugs hitting the metal shield protecting the streetlamp was like a clock ticking away the seconds. Patience had never been one of Ty Bradshaw’s best virtues, not even when his life had depended on it during long stays in trenches overseas. A product of the Selective Service Act, he’d been one of the ten thousand