Hart and Hope, I muttered. If you’re going to name your kids like that, of course they’re going to think they live in a comic book.
That's not a grenade, is it? Christabel whispered.Probably, I whispered back. The have this awesome storage room full of cool stuff like that.Grenades are cool? She looked dubious.Cooler than dead poe...
Perhaps I won't marry then. Instead, you and I shall live as spinsters in a cottage by the sea. We'll burn our corsets, eat chocolate morning, noon and night and grow fat as hedgehogs.
It was a reasonable assumption on my part.''Your assumptions stop being reasonable when they come from fear instead of facts.
It seems only fair, Matthew continued. A bit of karma, if you will. He twirled the stake again. Shall we see how long you scream?Are you ever going to shut up? I snapped, fear and irritation filling m...
I slid out of the car. I bring gross undead creatures of the night, I said, by way of explanation. A lot of them.What the hell? Quinn asked, even as he winked a hello at Hunter. I was pretty sure that...
I kissed him lightly and used the moment to slip the package out of the inside of his pocket. I was a white handkerchief folded into a square. What's this?He pretended to look put out. Did you just pi...
Elizabeth breathed. For what? Rheumatism? Retinue? Richard the Third?The planchette continued to move, torward the .Romantic? It's going to tell us our husband's name! Or else...rotund. She paused. Is...
The lane was positively clogged with carriages and the ballroom packed with several hundred guests in their finest. I’ve never seen so many fans and feathered turbans. I do hope that particular trend...
Not a woman, Gretchen corrected herself, a spirit. She glowed violently, outlined in frozen moonlight and fire.
It's some kind of magic, Samuel replied, glancing at me in the rear-view mirror. I can see it coming off her like glitter. The car listed across the meridian.Eyes on the road! I told him. And, that's...
I turned my attention back to the tal, handsome footman who was waiting patiently for me to take his hand and descend out of the plush carriage. Colin looked at me blandly. I knew perfectly well that...
I leaped toward her, landing behind her to guard her back before the Hel-Blar reached us. She shot me a half-surprised, half-grateful glance. The moon glinted on her sword and the chain mail sewn into...
Chloe nodded meekly. I’d never seen her so demure.What’s the matter with you? I hissed at her as we followed Kieran and Solange inside.She’s royalty!And a vampire, remember?Oh yeah. Chloe paused. Nope...
We'd been waltzing and eating tea cakes with a murderer.
Think they'll work it out? Nicholas asked.The emo twins? I asked. They love each other, so yes. Plus, I plan to smack their heads together.
That alone made me want to find every Richelieu in the world and kiss them. With tongue.
Shouldn't you be eating chocolate? I asked. Guaranteed cure-all. I motioned at Chloe. Give her some.She didn't want it, Chloe said. And you can't have it. She stuffed the rest into her mouth, nearly c...
Oh Crap, Connor muttered. She's going Darth Vader on us.
Lucy grinned. Nathan's going to be pissed, but they're so cute.We really are, Quinn drawled, having only caught our last comment. Connor, standing next to him, rolled his eyes.How did you fit that big...