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Phoebe squeezed her eyes shut, wishing, hoping, praying to disappear. Somebody was going to look very foolish in the next minute or two. Most likely, that somebody would be her.

“Phoebe,” Tommy said, “why don’t you come on up and let us introduce you to the good people of New Skye?”

She opened her eyes and looked for Adam, who had left the speaker’s stand and moved nearer to where she stood. Holding out his hand, he waited for her to join him. He had decided to go along with Tommy’s lie.

If she protested, denied the engagement, Adam’s campaign would end today, this minute, his credibility with the voters destroyed.

“Phoebe?” Adam’s voice came to her…a question, a plea.

She couldn’t resist.

Turning to the crowd, he held her close to him with one arm and waved with the other, grinning wildly.

Tommy announced, “The future Mrs. Adam DeVries.”

To Phoebe, the words sounded like the clang of a heavy iron door…the door to her new prison cell.