Did you set a blood ward around us, so you could scream at me uninterrupted? YES!
Did you see the mailman while doing your rounds yesterday?Curran's face turned carefully blank. Yes, I did.Did you do anything to scare him?I was perfectly friendly.Mhm. Please continue with your nice...
Did you hear that? a woman asked. I crouched behind the growth. No. No, you didn't hear anything. Don't mind me, I'm not hiding the corpse of a nasty creature behind your flower bed. Nope. Nothing her...
Did he kill Grandmother? I whispered.Don’t be ridiculous, Erra’s voice said in my ear. She is already dead. Besides, your grandmother was the Shield of Assyria. Even if he committed every drop of his...
Death is forever. Death is nothing. But to save a life, that’s everything.
Curran struck at my wrist. His fingers were cat-quick, but I had spent my life honing my reflexes, and he missed.Well, look at that. I studied my free wrist. Denied. Good-bye
Curran roared. The blast of noise erupting from his mouth was like thunder. I clenched up, fighting the urge to step back. Yes I can, he snarled. Listen: this is me telling you what you will not do. I...
Curran never does anything without a reason, he said. I was told you’d met him. Perhaps you indirectly challenged him at that meeting.Indirectly? I had challenged him
Curran lunged through the windowHe was huge, neither a man, nor a lion. Curran’s usual warrior form stood upright. This creature moved on all fours. Enormous, bulging with muscle under a gray pelt str...
Curran grinned and my heart made a little jump. I didn’t expect that.
Curran got rid of Ascanio and saddled me with not one, but two bodyguards. God help anyone who dared to look at me funny. They would rip him to pieces, just to outdo each other.
Curran gave me a flat look. I can always drive to a burger joint instead. Oh, so you'd throw a burger down my throat and expect making out in the back seat?He grinned. We can do it in the front seat i...
Curran could be described in many ways: dangerous, powerful . . . insufferable. Elegant usually wasn’t one of the adjectives used, and as he walked next to me, I wished I had a camera so I could comme...
Curran and Kate stood by the door.I can’t believe you decided to come down here and check on me, she said.The guy once handed you a fan and told you to fan yourself if the sight of his naked torso was...
Christopher nodded. Well, can I come with you to see the horses? I promise to be good and not scare them.Sure, why not. Teddy Jo waved his arms. The entirety of Hades can come. We’ll have a party.Chri...
Cerise ran through the course in her mind. Three miles, stream on the right, Mozer Lake, Tinybear, Bigbear, Miller’s Path. She paused, not sure if she’d said it correctly. Three miles, stream on the r...
Breaking and entering was an essential part of the shapeshifter courtship.
Bono give you any terms?Me, the Crusader, and you. Tonight.How nice. A party for the top three on the upir’s most wanted list.
Because my telekinetic magic doesn’t work on living things. I can throw something metal fast enough to slice an opponent to pieces. I can hurl a board at him, because cut wood is dead. I can choke him...
Bad days, good days, ‘I’ll cut you if you look at me the wrong way’ days. I’ll take them all.