William Leidesdorff,
Why do you want to marry me?Because I want this adventure we're on to continue. Because you fill my heart. Because I want you to have that garden.
The name and accomplishments of Oscar J. Dunn have faded so much over time, he has all but disappeared from the history books. The controversy surrounding his untimely death remains unresolved. No one...
The brown paper bag test was well-known. Eddy always saw it as both shameful and ridiculous.
She gave him a knowing smile and said pleasantly, For all your legendary expertise, Mr. Le Veq, you know nothing about a woman like me, so, shall we return to the business at hand? Archer got the dist...
Restating her refusal to marry him and making him believe it once and for all seemed necessary, however, so she said, Dinner would be fine.
Olivia handed Cara the bowl of ice cream. You finish it. Life would be so much easier if Malloy would go out onto the plains and let himself be eaten by a bear.
Livy says when her mama and papa are happy she hears them jumping on the bed at night. Are you going to jump on the bed?
Even though he was glad they’d have a second chance, that chance wouldn’t be with him, and because it wouldn’t, sorrow rode him. Logically, he understood the state wanting them placed with people of t...
Mouth, savoring her response and how perfectly her behind fit his palms. He eased her into his hardness while he languidly and brazenly slid his hands over her hips. The thought of exploring the warmt...
But if he did marry, the least he could do was honor his mother’s ultimate sacrifice by finding a woman who didn’t hold her and the Old Queens he was descended from in contempt. In some ways such a pl...
We were barred last year as well, Sylvie informed Eddy. But it’s okay. We do our celebrating on August first anyway, just like the rest of the country’s Colored communities.
The common man need not ask because I am unavailable to him, but for a man who matches me in strength and purpose—there is no cost.
She didn’t believe that anyone should be made to spend the entire time on earth as property of someone else. No matter what it took, she was determined to see them free before she went to her grave.
She dearly hoped her gender would not be a problem because she did not have the time to educate a man on the fine points of what a woman of the nineteenth century could achieve.
Once word got out about who he really was, he was sure Wally was going to be ecstatic over never having to publicly acknowledge him again.
Most men like you are always interested in women like myself, but what they fail to see is this is my job, it isn’t necessarily who I am. People tend to meld the two and fail to realize that distincti...
Just because women whore doesn’t mean they don’t have hopes or dreams or desires of their own. There is little glamour in taking strange men into your bed.
Before she could put Paula in her place, a beautifully attired older woman standing near her said pointedly, Miss July, please don’t judge we Philadelphians by this graceless visitor from Memphis.
I'd given him my virginity because he told me I was special, but apparently I was simply a new link in a very long chain.So what did you do?...Put red pepper sauce in his rubbers.