Elizabeth, we’re going to have to stop.Elizabeth’s swirling senses began to return to reality, slowly at first, and then with a sickening plummet. Passion gave way to fear and then to anguished shame...
Don’t worry, he said flippantly, taking her arm and starting to walk back toward the house. I’m not going to make the ritualistic proposal that followed our last encounters. Marriage is out of the que...
Do you know why I married you, Philip?Presumably you wanted the financial security and social prestige I could offer.She chuckled at that and shook her head...I believed, she confessed somberly, I hon...
Despite her grave concern over her uncle, Elizabeth chuckled inwardly as she introduced Duncan. Everyone exhibited the same stunned reaction she had when she’d discovered Ian Thornton’s uncle was a cl...
Despite all her diligent efforts to remake herself into a model of propriety, when it come to falling in love she'd reverted to from and fallen in love with a man who was a renegade, a black sheep, a...
At the moment Ormsley looked on the verge of tears as his damp, faded blue eyes roved almost lovingly over Ian’s face. Good afternoon, my lord, he intoned formally, but the ecstatic expression on his...
And so I invented a kingdom of dreams where I could accomplish great and daring deeds to make it happen.
Allow me to presume upon this new friendship of ours by telling you that denying your fiance your company in order to gain whatever it is you want, is not only foolish but risky. It was obvious to me...
A rueful smile touched Lauren's lips as she turned her head toward the window. Everyone always said she was so intelligent, so sensible, yet here she was, already planning to make Nick Sinclair fall i...
A husband is the only possible solution to your problems.Don’t you dare suggest a man as the solution for my troubles, she cried. You’re all the cause of them! My father gambled away the entire family...
A breathtaking vision in emerald silk, she was too exquisite to be flesh and blood; too regal and aloof to have ever let him touch her. He drew a long, strangled breath and realized he hadn’t been bre...
I can't sleep, because I'm afraid I'll start dreaming...
That night he had answered no. Tonight he would have said yes. Among other things, he wanted to know where she was; a month ago he’d told himself it was because he wanted the divorce petition served....
And gains at the gaming tables spread from White’s
You needn't worry about your appearance, my dear, because true beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel.Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart
What possessed you? Lauren demanded of Jim the next morning.He grinned. Call it an uncontrollable impulse.I call it insanity! she burst out. You can't imagine how furious he was.He called me names! I-...
Well, what happened to your scruples in the woodcutter’s cottage? You I thought you’d already left when I went inside.Why did you stay, he countered smoothly, when you realized I was still there?In c...
Until that moment Elizabeth wouldn’t have believed she could feel more humiliated than she already did. Robbed of even the defense of righteous indignation, she faced the fact that she was the unwante...
Turning, she smiled with genuine affection at Lord Marchman and offered him her hand through the open window of the coach. Thank you, she said shyly but with great sincerity, for being all the things...