A tall blonde entered the room, wearing a yellow sash that marked her as advocate. Two men followed her, carrying papers. She was lean and long-legged, with a graceful neck and nice ankles, and Willia...
Then you saw the vampires, smeared in purple and lime-green sunblock, patrolling those snow-white walls
Psychopath murders because he can’t help himself. They are perpetrating mass murder for no real immediate gain. I stared at him helplessly. How can you do this to your neighbors? They would have to mu...
You’re a prickly, stubborn, spirited woman.Don’t forget crude, rude, and vulgar.Only when it suits you. You’re sly when occasion calls for it, direct to the point of forgetting tact even exists, sarca...
You're problem is, you underestimate me because I'm a woman.
You see, the mailman saw your husband during one of his walks. He’s my fiancé, I told her. We are living in sin. Heather blinked, momentarily knocked off her stride, but recovered. Oh, that’s nice. It...
Yes, I want your bullshit.
What the hell did this Curran do to you? Killed your master, stole your girl, burned down your castle? What?
We stared at each other. The level of politeness had risen to dangerous levels.
We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.
This particular hyena was short and had blue hair that stuck out straight up from her head. She saw me looking.
This isn’t over! Leroy jabbed his finger at Curran. He probably meant it to look aggressive, but he was swaying on his feet. Yes, it is, Curran told him. Go before I change my mind.
They never fought about anything important. They never stole from each other, they never tried to sabotage each other's relationships, and if anyone dared to look at one of them the wrong way, the oth...
There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned, sins committed and imagined, and raw emotion. Ho...
The vampire stared at me, his mouth slack as Ghastek assessed his options. I took a couple of forms from my desk, put them into the vamp's mouth, and pulled them up by their edges.What are you doing?...
The phone rang. I picked it up. Kate DanielsIt's me, Curran said. I— I hung up.
The lack of money is the root of all evil, Mr. Meadows.
The heavy eyelids snapped open. Jack froze. A huge gold-and-amber eye, as big as a dinner plater, stared at him. The dark pupil shrank, focusing.Jack stood very still. The colossal head turned, the sc...
The four words of power. Obey, Kill, Protect, and Die. Words so primal, so dangerous, so powerful that they commanded the raw magic itself.
The dusk had arrived on the wings of a night moth, silent and soft. The sky above me darkened to a deep, beautiful purple. Stars glowed high above, and below them, as if inspired by their light, tiny...