The magic flooded us again. This time Derek was ready—his face showed no change. Ghastek, on the other hand, halted in midrise halfway off the ground.I unsheathed Slayer. Derek backed away, giving him...
When visitors came to the fine state of Texas, they expected a dry, rolling plain studded with longhorn cattle, oil derricks, and an occasional cowboy in a huge hat. According to them, that plain had...
Your father would be proud of you. Don't ever doubt that. The agency is his legacy, Nevada. You make sure that it thrives and its name stands for something.Right now it stood for we get ourselves into...
Why the rifle? Everybody knows you can’t shoot. Who were these everybodies and would they like to stand in front of me, preferably within ten feet, so I could discuss this issue in greater detail.
Sophie raised her head. Light filtering through the trees dappled her face. Hawk.Charlotte looked up as well. A bird of prey soared above the treetops, circling around them.It’s dead, Sophie said. Geo...
I split the omelet between the plates and stopped when Curran's arms closed about me. He pulled me against him, pressing my back against his chest. I heard him inhale my scent. His lips grazed my temp...
The second message was from Andrea.Hey. It’s me. Raphael says that Curran’s been a real bastard since about mid-November. He’s in a bad mood. He’s snarling at everything and everyone, and he stopped h...
We would screw up our children. It was inevitable. Julie had taught me that you never get the child you want or expect. You get the child you get and you try your best to make sure they turn out to be...
Now we had two invisible intruders. Because one wasn't hard enough.
Kate makes good sausage, Jim said.Six pairs of eyes stared at me. Thank you, Mr. Wonderful. Just what I needed.Oh yeah, Andrea snapped her fingers. The links? The ones we had the beginning of the mont...
I’m curious, what are you picturing exactly? Augustine asked. A crisscrossing pattern of red laser beams and ferrets in harnesses slithering through it like ninjas?
Ready to put your claws where your mouth is, or are you going to cringe behind the big boys and yip all day?His eyes flared yellow Is that a challenge?Yes it is.
You know what? No: if he ever fell in love, it wouldn’t be great romantic devotion. It would be an exercise in frustration and lust, and at the end of it his significant other would strangle him.
Somewhere in the darkness the Beast Lord prowled. I didn’t know what he looked like. I didn’t know the species of his beast. Few people outside of the Pack claimed to have met him and nobody seemed wi...
Somehow this new, on-his-best-behavior version was scarier than witnessing him calmly breaking a man with his bare hands. After what we’d been through, I would’ve expected him to hole up somewhere dar...
If there is anything I can do, I'll help. Don't get excited. It's not because of you. For the child. If it wasn't for her and the flare, I'd throw your dumb ass out of this window.What does the flare...
Kate smirked.What?Your horse looks pink.So?If you paste some stars on her butt you'll be riding My Little Pony.Bugger off. I patted the mare's neck. Don't listen to her, Sugar. You are the cutest hors...
In her rare moments of desperation, she wanted a man to look at her like she meant the world to him, and failing that, she would settle for someone who thought she was beautiful and told her
In the crime novels, a PI is either an ex-cop or has some cop buddies who owed him a favor and who happily provided him with the department's files, while carrying on about how it could cost them thei...
In the event of a Law Enforcement Breach, a computer would the first thing the LEOs --law enforcement officers --would confiscate. I had a laptop upstairs in plain view, partially for that exact purpo...
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