My youngest brother killed a lynx yesterday, Rose said. Apparently it came into his territory and left some spray marks. He skinned it, smeared himself in its blood, and put its pelt on his shoulders...
My mother used to say that family, blood or found, was our salvation. It was the net that caught us when we drowned and gently lifted us up out of the raging waters. She was wise, my mother.
My investigative technique mostly consisted of going through the list of interested parties and making as much noise as possible, until the culprit lost his patience and tried to shut me up.
My father knew he was a bastard. He was the venomous serpent in a bed of roses. Apparently, he didn't just acknowledge that fact, he beat people over the head with it. All that was missing was a neon...
My cell phone rang on the table. I never went far without it, even in the house. I picked it up. An unlisted number. Oh goodie.Nevada Baylor.I need to talk to you, Mad Rogan said into the phone. Meet...
Mr. Evans? I called. A moment of your time? He looked at me as if he'd never seen me before. Do I know you? My name is Dina. I own the bed-and-breakfast. He glanced past me at the old house sitting at...
Most people facing a truck head-on would be scared. He stared her down as if she had insulted him by nearly running him over. Like he was some sort of king of the road.
Monogamy, he stated flatly. While you’re with me, I’m the only one. Anybody else touches you and I’ll kill them.What if I accidently bump into someone?Gold flashed in his eyes. Don’t.
Momma’s gonna buy you a mockingbird . . . Margo stirred and crawled to her mother, dragging one twisted leg behind her. Maddie followed. They huddled together, the three of them, pressed against the P...
Mishmar. Your father’s hellish prison he cobbled together from the remains of office buildings from Omaha, which he destroyed. The Mishmar that’s stuffed to the brink with mutated vampires. That Mishm...
Mhm, Kate, the chief of security. Sexy. Who better to guard my body than the woman who owns is?Curran, I will punch you.Rough play. Curran pretended to shiver in excitement
Me acerqué para guardar el expediente en mi cajón y mis dedos rozaron un libro en rústica. La princesa prometida. Aquella noche en Savannah, cuando casi me besó, lo estaba leyendo, y cuando le dije qu...
Me acerqué a pedirle al encargado que me diera la nueva llave, me arrastré hasta mi apartamento y estudié mi nueva cerradura. Grande, metálica y brillante. No tenía ni un rasguño. Incluso la llave ten...
Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew it impossible.
Mad Rogan was walking next to me with that same confident stride that had made me notice him back in the arboretum, and I knew precisely where he was and how much distance separated us. My whole body...
Lunch, Ms. Baylor. Concentrate. Pick a place. You seem to be under the impression that I work for you and you can give me orders. Let me fix that. I hung up.
Look what the cat dragged in. He was playing to the audience. Never good. Is he talking to me or you? Curran asked. His voice was deceptively light. I don’t know, I said. But I’m sure he’ll get around...
Look under the passenger seat in a black plastic bin. There should be a book. Raphael hopped out, dug under the seat, and pulled out a dog-eared copy of The Almanac of Mystical Creatures. Got it, I sa...
Look at it! George’s voice shuddered with barely contained awe. at it! Don’t you want to experience it? Don’t you want to be brave? You are not a gentle flower who spends its whole life in a greenhou...
Logic said that at some point he must’ve been a baby and then a child, but looking at him one was almost convinced that some deity had touched the ground with its scepter and proclaimed, There shall b...