When she heard the door behind her open, she spoke without turning.You've got a man who doesn't particularly like women as a species, considers them inferior. Well, to be fair, considers everyone infe...
What are you smiling at? she snapped at Roarke.I’m a man, and I’m sitting here having coffee and cookies while two beautiful women snarl at each other. Being a man I’m required to wonder—perhaps imagi...
The wince and muffled oath he gave when he stepped into the water got a laugh out of her.It’s not that hot.If I had a lobster, we’d boil it and eat it.You set the temp.So I did, and now, with no lobst...
The waiter arrived and took their orders. When he was gone, Macy added, Besides, my life coach says it’s inefficient to spend time with people you’re hoping will change, that it’s a surefire way to de...
The statute of limitations . . . She’s put it behind her. Or I hope she has. She’d have put it behind her, Eve thought, but it was always behind you. In a corner, in the dark. Squatting there behind y...
The service bar in the parlor had been lightly used, some macadamias and
The rage worked under her cheer. It was always there, whispering to her. But she could control it. She’d controlled it for years. Because she was smart, smarter than all of them.
The person I'm most thankful for this Thanksgiving is Lieutenant Eve Dallas. She kept me safe when I was scared and I was sad. She took me to her house with Roarke and Summerset and Galahad so nobody...
The next thing she knew, he was shaking her gently by the shoulder. Eve. What! Her eyes popped open. I wasn’t sleeping. I was thinking. Yes, I could hear you thinking. If that’s some smart-ass way of...
The man could stop her heart, then send it into full gallop. Just a look at him. They’d been married more than two years, she thought. Shouldn’t that ease off? Where was that in the Marriage Rules? Bu...
The daily life of kids was a strange one, she thought. You got hauled to various locations, dumped there, hauled out again at the end of the day. During the dump time, you formed your own little socie...
Thanks, Lieutenant. Casey's going to be really excited about Saturday. Um, can we bring something?Like what?A dish?We have dishes. We have lots of dishes.He means food, Peabody interpreted. Don't worr...
Thank you, Lieutenant.Which is why you are now assigned to me as my permanent aide. You want a detective shield, Officer?Peabody knew what she was being given: the opportunity, the gift out of nowhere...
Tag Feeney, Eve ordered when she was behind the wheel. Have him run like crimes in and around London.It would be my honor, Mrs. Lieutenant Dallas Roarke. At Eve's burning look, Peabody only grinned. S...
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Strap on one of the weapons you're not supposed to carry. Darling Eve. He leaned over, kissed her. I always have one of the weapons I'm not supposed to carry. You're not to worry about me.That's the s...
Speaking of chocolate, what kind of cake are we having for the shower?I don’t know.Sincerely shocked, Peabody jerked around in her seat. You didn’t get cake?I don’t know. Probably. Because the idea of...
So, you’re dead asleep, and you get a call. Something terrible’s happened, and I’m dead. What do you do? It took him a moment to quell the terror, to ignore the small, dark place inside him that feare...
She’d have put it behind her, Eve thought, but it was always behind you. In a corner, in the dark. Squatting there behind you and chuckling in its throat.
She'd barely stepped in, taken that first breath of cool, clean air, when Summerset, Roarke's majordomo, appeared in the foyer like an unwelcome vision.Yes, I missed the dinner, she said before he cou...