Every week, Michael went to Dean and DeLuca to buy your pears. She shook her head, remembering. He waas going to school, and he had no money, so he stretched every penny like this - She made a motion...
Every fop and fool in London has been sniffing after her. Having said that, Jason returned his attention for the report. Go ahead and read off the names, if you must. Frowning in surprise at Jason's d...
Blissfully unaware of all that, Elizabeth continued to love him without reservation or guile, and as she grew more certain of his love, she became more confident and more enchanting to Ian. On those o...
Behind her, where Tony had been standing, shadows moved, then a hand gently grasped Elizabeth’s elbow, and a deep, husky voice said near her ear, Dance with me, Elizabeth.Shock stiffened her body, sla...
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 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...
All the love that had been accumulating through the lonely years of her childhood was in that kiss-Ian felt it in the soft lips parting willingly for his searching tongue, the delicate hands sliding t...
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...
That announcement caused an immediate reaction among the inhabitants of the ballroom, who began looking at one another in surprise and then turned to the balcony, but it was nothing compared to the re...
They’re going to ask what you said. And if I tell Mr. Twindell you said heaven will be like this, he’ll be very disappointed. He’s counting, you know, on gold streets and angels and horses with wings....
Lying in bed, she would alter the plots of the novels, the dialogue, and even the situations and locales to suit herself, but she never, ever, changed her imaginary hero. He and he alone remained ever...
If you'll kiss me back, he whispered huskily, brushing his lips along the curve of her jaw, I'll make it six million. If you'll go to bed with me tonight, he continued, losing himself in the scent of...
I had wonderful grandparents, and I promise you that I don't have any emotional scars from what happened with my mother.Of course you do-anyone would! She walked out on you, then practically before yo...
He’d promised she would be safe, which she now realized left a great deal of room for personal interpretation. If I’m going to remain, she said uneasily, I think we ought to agree to observe all the p...
God help me if I ever injure my back, Clayton quipped.God help you if you ever turn it, Whitney snapped, for there'll surely be some heartbroken papa or cuckolded husband ready with a knife--if I don'...
For a man who’s just inherited a small empire, Ian, you have a remarkably sour expression on your face. Would you care to join me for a drink and a few hands of cards, my lord?An ironic smile twisted...
Do you have any idea how beautiful you are? he asked.Elizabeth had a vague idea, since everyone was always telling her, and she suppressed a worried impulse to reply, Do you have any idea how I am? I...
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...
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...
Dying over an argument isn't honor, it's a waste of a man's life. A man volunteers to die for a cause he believes in, or to protect others he cares about. Any other reason is nothing more than stupidi...