Elizabeth’s breakfast had cured Ian’s hunger, in fact, the idea of ever eating again made his stomach churn as he started for the barn to check on Mayhem’s injury.He was partway there when he saw her...
Elizabeth was standing at the edge of the grassy plateau, a few yards beyond where they’d held their shooting match. Wind ruffled through the trees, blowing her magnificent hair about her shoulders li...
Come inside with me, he urged, increasing the pressure on her elbow, and I’ll begin making it up to you.Elizabeth let herself be drawn forward a few steps and hesitated. This is a mistake. Everyone wi...
But before you do that, inform your master that we have arrived.His master, said a biting voice from a rear doorway, is aware of that.Elizabeth swung around at the scathing tone of Ian’s voice, and he...
A long time ago Ian had told her he was half in love with her, yet now that they were betrothed he’d never spoken a word of it, had not even pretended. She wasn’t certain of his motives or his feeling...
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
You were wearing your hair up like that the day we left for Harbor Springs, he said, his deep voice pitched seductively low. I like it.In that case, Lauren said lightly, I'll start wearing it down.He...
You can't outwit fate by trying to stand on the sidelines and place little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in and risk everything to play the game, or you don't play at all. And i...
You can't live your life to suit other people. The harder you try, the more restrictions they'll put on you just for the fun of seeing you jump through their hoops.
Why did you cry off?She stiffened in surprise; then, trying to match his light, mocking tone, she said, Viscount Mondevale proved to be a trifle high in the instep about things like his fiancé cavorti...
Well, now, if we’d known we were going to have such…ah…gra…that is, illustrious company, we’d have-Swept off the chairs? Lucinda suggested acidly. Shoveled off the floor?Lucinda! Elizabeth whispered d...
We must not let her uncle send her into the gloom, which is what he always does.Is there a means to stop him? Alex asked, smiling.Bentner straightened, nodded, and said with dignified force, I, for on...
We all do foolish things when we are in love. Don't we, your grace?
Victoria lifted her chin. In my country, Mr. Fielding, it is considered ill-bred to argue at the table.Her veiled reprimand filled him with amusement. How very inconvenient for you, he remarked softly...
To her complete bafflement, instead of continuing his attack, Ian Thornton turned around and met her stormy eyes, an odd expression on his handsome face. I apologize, Elizabeth, he said grimly. My rem...
To have him look at her as if she was a piece of office equipment whose presence offended him but whom he was obliged out of neccessity to have nearby.
To accomplish that, I created Victoria Seaton, a young American who was
This was not the way Ian intended his wedding night should be, and as he removed his clothes by the light of the single candle burning across the room, he was determined that it would at least end as...
They won’t do it, Ian, Jordan Townsende said the night after Ian was released on his own recognizance. Pacing back and forth across Ian’s drawing room, he said again, They will not do it.They’ll do it...
They seemed so right together-both of them sophisticated, dark-haired, and striking; no doubt they had much in common, she thought a little dismally as she picked up her knife and fork and went to wor...