For a moment she simply stood there in the dark corridor, her heart stopped, the duke roaring huskily behind her like some beast out of one of her childhood nightmares.Despair wrapped chilly fingers a...
Fine. You can pull away from me for now. You can keep your distance and shake. But Eve, I'll not let you do it forever.She looked up at that, blue eyes wide and startled. What do you mean?I mean, he s...
Be that as it may, a gentleman doesn’t continue to press hisattentions on a lady who can’t return them.Then, as I see it, you have two problems, my lord, Harry said.Tony’s eyes narrowed.One, that the...
Apollo widened his eyes, trying to look harmless—sadly, nearly impossible. He’d hit six feet at age fifteen and topped that by several inches in the fourteen years since. Add to that the width of his...
Anna Wren was not for him. She was of a different class than he, and, moreover, she was a respectable widow from the village. She wasn’t a sophisticated society lady who might consider a liaison outsi...
And he bent and kissed her clitoris.She froze because she'd had no idea what he was going to do and if she had- He opened his mouth, licking her.'Oh, God!'One hand flew to her mouth. She bit down on h...
Show me the other horses, Captain Trevillion? Certainly. He limped forward to offer her his arm.
Why did men think that saying something louder made it true?
He was watching her. As if her gaze was important to him as he worked himself.As he touched his 'cock.'She inhaled on the thought of the word, looking back down. He'd pushed his shirt out of the way w...
He was like a young tiger, all muscle and passion, and she wanted to ride him--not to tame the beast, but to feel for a small moment all of his vitality.
He came for me. But the Vicar never got very far with what he intended. I was not raped. A sudden, rather awful thought assailed her. You do believe me, don’t you? A wide grin spread across his handso...
He burst from the water. He was facing her now. The muscles bunched on his arms as he slicked his wet, shoulder-length hair back from his face. The mist swirled amber over the surface of the water, ad...
Have you no care for your reputation? She stepped toward him until she was so close he fancied he breathed the same air as she and when she tilted her face up to look at him he saw that she wasn’t nea...
Harry tucked her arm through his and marched her to the door.Stop!What?Men could be so obtuse. Do I look like I've just been tumbled?Harry's lips twitched. You look like the most beautiful woman in th...
God.' She'd tasted of oranges and honey and he'd felt her shake beneath his hands. He'd wanted to strip her right there in the carriage with his men riding outside.She was driving him mad. He couldn't...
Edward got up from his desk, limped across to hers, and placed both hands, palms down, upon it. He leaned over until his eyes were only inches from her hazel ones. I am not ashamed, he said very slowl...
Darling, she said and caught his face between her hands, making him meet her eyes. He didn’t want to. He didn’t like the look in her eyes—a grim determination. I love you, she whispered and his soul s...
Come with me, sweet girl.She blinked up at him, wide blue-gray eyes a little dazed.He covered her mouth again before she could speak- either to consent or decline- and drew her slowly backward, step b...
And if he presses, tell him it’s a female matter. That stops any question.
After a childhood reading fairy tales and myths, is it any wonder that when I began to write my own stories I included fairy tales? Fairy tales are storytelling at its most basic. They’ve been with ma...