How do you expect to keep our seeing each other a secret? You've been all over the news here for years. People will recognize you wherever you go.I won't be recognized, but you will. You're America's...
Grow up!Lauren felt as if he had slapped her. Infuriated past reason, she struck back at his ego. You're absolutely right! she blazed. That's what I should do.Beginning today I'm going to grow up and...
Good secretaries are always in demand. Sinco's personnel office will probably call you eventually and offer you a job.I doubt it, Lauren said with an irrepressible smile. I'm afraid Mr. Weatherby, the...
God help him. He chortled. He doesn't realize he loves her. And even if he did, he wouldn't admitted it.-Dr. Whitticomb
Elizabeth, he said, trying not to laugh. At a wedding reception, the guests cannot leave until the bride and groom retire. If you look over there, you’ll notice my great-aunts are already nodding in t...
Clayton, she said softly, her voice threaded with tears, when Vanessa asked about my accomplishments tonight, I forgot to mention that I do have one. And it's--it's so splendid that it compensates for...
At the moment, however, she had an ever larger problem: what to do now, when two defenseless women were completely lost in the wilds of Scotland, at night, in the rain and cold.Shuffling footsteps sou...
At the end of the lane Elizabeth put down her side of the trunk and sank down wearily beside Lucinda upon its hard top, emotionally exhausted. A wayward chuckle bubbled up inside her, brought on by ex...
At five minutes to five,Jim walked into Mary's office, wearing his gray sweater and balancing four pieces of birthday cake on two plates. He put the plates down on Mary's empty desk and glanced at the...
As Ian’s father had once jokingly remarked of their gifted son, Ian us to raise him because he loves us, not because he thinks we’re smarter than he is. He already knows we aren’t, but he doesn’t wan...
And then come and join us in a toast. I'm about to whisk Lauren off to Las Vegas to get married. The plane is being refueled and checked out right now.Does Lauren know about this? Mary said, frowning....
And in that unlikely moment, as she held his dagger poised high, ready to strike, Royce Westmoreland thought she was the most magnificent creature he'd ever beheld; a wild, beautiful, enraged angel of...
Am I to assume the Valerie I was introduced to earlier was the Valerie of our greenhouse notes? He realized his mistake the instant her eyes clouded over and she glanced in the direction he’d looked.Y...
After Ian left for the Greenleaf Inn, where he planned to stop for the night before continuing the trip to his own home, Elizabeth stayed downstairs to put out the candles and tidy up the drawing room...
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 few minutes later Elizabeth watched Lucinda emerge from the cottage with Ian, but there was no way to guess from their closed expressions what they’d discussed.In fact, the only person betraying any...
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....
You needn't worry about your appearance, my dear, because true beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
Would you be willing to tell me how the ladies came to be here? I mean, who are they?Ian drew a long, impatient breath, tipped his head back, and absently massaged the muscles at the back of his neck....
Why did you come here-that is, why did you agree to reconsider my proposal?The question alarmed and startled her. Now that she’d seen him she had only the dimmest, possibly even erroneous recollection...