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THIS TIME, FOREVER He had returned to save her… Once a handsome prince rescued a beautiful princess…. Well, that was what Rowena Goodman's children believed. And they soon decided that Keir Delahunty was the prince sent to rescue their mother. But Rowena had trouble believing that Keir, who had left her waiting for him all those years ago, and who could have any woman his heart desired, wanted her. Keir insisted he loved Rowena and the children, and that they were essential to his future happiness. To prove his good intentions he set out to slay all Rowena's dragons. That left Rowena with no excuses and one secret to share with Keir…and it concerned her oldest child.

John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903) was a bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and first Chancellor of the American University in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Dickinson College in 1854, and in 1856 went to Germany to Study at the University of Halle and the University of Heidelberg. From 1858 to 1866 he was engaged in pastoral work in America, and he filled a five-year appointment as Professor of Systematic Theology at the Martin Mission Institute in Germany. In 1870, he was chosen to teach Historical Theology at Drew Theological Seminary in New Jersey, where he was elected President in 1873, serving until elected to the Episcopacy in 1880. As bishop he was assigned to Iowa. He subsequently served as the first chancellor of the American University in Washington, D.C., where through his work finances were secured and the university first opened. He served as chancellor from 1891 until his death. He wrote History of Rationalism (1865), Martyrs to the Tract Cause: A Contribution to the History of the Reformation (1872), Outlines of Bible History (1873), and Outlines of Church History (1874). He also edited The Wedding Day (1889).

Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.