He was accustomed to women wanting him. What shocked him was the simple fact that he wanted her.Not hot, energetic sex. Not a blow job from a novice. He wanted her with aperplexing intensity he hadn't...
He should have known someone like Lucien de Malheur would offer no loyalty, no male solidarity.
Chloe took a sip of her coffee. Strong as faith, sweet as love, black as sin.
She swam to the shallow end of the pool and stood up, yanking the shrinking topof the bathing suit up to a more demure level.That's a shame, Peter Jensen's cool voice emerged from the shadows. I washo...
Jilly looked at it with a sinking heart. It was difficult enough when the exotic, undeniably gorgeous creature of her fantasies had turned out to be an obnoxious bully. Of course he had to have a Harl...
I’ll see you in hell. Ah, but you’ll be there first, my dear. Move.
If this were a different time, a different place, I would take you to bed with me and make love to you for days.
I'm supposed to trust you?No, he said. He picked up the phone. Put her sister on. A second later hehanded the small silver device to her.Summer felt a second of panic—after all, this tiny piece of met...
I thought you'd be halfway to Tokyo by now, she said, stalling.Not without you.Oh, man, she was so screwed. He was bad enough when he was giving her shit. Right now he was looking at her as ifshe was...
I eat gaijin for breakfast… His words trailed off as Jilly came out of the house, in her pseudo-frock, her combat boots, her spiky hair and her young, young face. He just stared at her, motionless, as...
He moved around the wide counter, silent as always. She was sitting on the floor, her arms wrapped around her knees, her fist in her mouth to try to quiet her sobs, and he realized he hadn’t actually...
He couldn’t have known. The moonlight wasn’t enough to illuminate the room, and the tears that spilled silently down her cheeks didn’t touch him. But suddenly the kiss softened, the hands gentled on h...
Do I make you nervous, Madame Lambert?No. I just prefer to keep my distance.Evil isn’t contagious.I thought you said you weren’t the most evil man in the world?I’m not. But that doesn’t mean I’m a goo...
Come along, my brave one. Your wife and son want to see you.
You have everyone else at your feet, Miss Lydia. Why should you need me as well?For a moment she couldn't speak, mesmerized by the torment she saw in the dark depths of his eyes. Because you're the on...
They had known each other for many years. Young Jacob had found his way onto a ship borne for the tropics, indentured to a pair of wealthy male planters, and he’d run away, ending up at the decaying r...
She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.
If she simply stayed in the country she would never have to see him again. Viscount Rohan was notoriously unmoved by the countryside, avoiding it at all costs. If she could just convince Lina to remov...
I don't love you, he said. And he pulled her into his arms and kissed her, a kiss of passion and desperation, a kiss of deepcurrents and longing. I don't love you, he said again.Of course you don't, s...
He wasn't marrying her. Even if she'd have him, which she certainly wouldn't, he had no intention of leg-shackling himself to such a difficult woman. She's always be racing off to save some new stray...