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Oil heiress Madeline Quinn needs a husband by the time she turns twenty-five in order to claim her full inheritance. Mad Maddie, as the tabloids christened her, learned the hard way that men only see dollar signs when they look at her.
Maddie decides a marriage of convenience is the only answer. She turns to the one man in the world she can trust, her housekeeper’s son who always treated her like a little sister when they were growing up—until one disastrous night when she acted impetuously.
Jake Becker hasn’t seen Maddie since the night she tried to seduce him. Why should he help the woman who changed the course of his life? Simple. Revenge.
Or is it something else? Something that sizzles like steam heat between Maddie and Jake that neither can resist?
When I was a kid, every Saturday afternoon before Easter Sunday, we gathered in the kitchen to dye Easter eggs.
Back in the day, the Paas Easter Egg Dye kit came with only 5 dye tablets.
The smell of the vinegar that was added to the cup of boiling water didn't exactly stink, but it made my nose tickle.
Then one year, a little wire "hook" was added to the package. Other improvements were a waxy crayon-type thing used to draw designs on the egg before adding it to the cup of dye. The wax kept dye from adhering to areas where it had been used.
History of Paas Easter Egg DyeInvented by drug store owner William Townley in Newark, New Jersey, in 1893, Townley figured out how to concentrate dye in a tablet form. He sold the dye tablets for 5 cents each. Customers combined the dye tablet with water and vinegar just as my brothers and I did when we were kids decades later.
By 1901, Mr. Townly employed 7 men and 20 women, and he was well on his way to becoming the largest manufacturer of Easter egg dyes.
Eventually, the company was renamed the Paas Dye Company. The word Paas is derived from Pasen which is Dutch for Easter.
As you can see by the photo on the right, the company is still in business with more elaborate dye kits.
Church on Easter Sunday
Yes, church was the other tradition. We always went with girls wearing their brand new Easter dresses and boys wearing new dress shirts and pants.
Shopping for the Easter dress was a big deal when I was a little girl. Even our moms bought a special dress for Easter Sunday. After church, the big egg hunt was on! I never liked eggs when I was a kid—especially boiled eggs. Needless to say, I never excelled at hunting for the eggs hidden in the back yard.
Did you and your family have special Easter traditions?
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Oil heiress Madeline Quinn needs a husband by the time she turns twenty-five in order to claim her full inheritance. Mad Maddie, as the tabloids christened her, learned the hard way that men only see dollar signs when they look at her.
Maddie decides a marriage of convenience is the only answer. She turns to the one man in the world she can trust, her housekeeper’s son who always treated her like a little sister when they were growing up—until one disastrous night when she acted impetuously.
Jake Becker hasn’t seen Maddie since the night she tried to seduce him. Why should he help the woman who changed the course of his life? Simple. Revenge.
Or is it something else? Something that sizzles like steam heat between Maddie and Jake that neither can resist?
I'll see you next month on the 16th. Until then, happy reading!
Wishing you a wonderful Easter weekend with family and friends.
I kept the "Easter dress" habit well into adulthood. Plus white shoes and a straw purse. While we did Easter baskets for the kids, we've never had gatherings, etc. While I like Santa Claus a lot, the Easter Bunny and the non-religious celebration of the holiday just never did it for me.
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