Have you stopped the trial? the duchess said.Stopped the trial! he expostulated. My dear duchess, it would take the prince or God to stop this trial.They will have to settle for Lady Thornton, the dow...
Elizabeth, he interrupted in a husky whisper, and suddenly his eyes were smoldering as he held out his hand, sensing victory before Elizabeth ever realized she was defeated. Come here.Of its own accor...
Elizabeth, if you want to be kissed, all you have to do is put your lips on mine.
Did you ever notice how very fickle males are? she asked the horse. And how very foolish females are about them? she added, aware of how inexplicably deflated she felt. She realized as well that she w...
Before their chaise drew to a complete halt in front of the house a door was already being flung open, and a tall, stocky man was bouncing down the steps.It would appear that our greeting here is goin...
You will soon discover that in matters of the heart, memories are much kinder than reality
There now, she said to the flowers in an encouraging tone, you have food and air. You’ll be very happy and pretty in no time.Are you talking to the Ian asked from behind her.Elizabeth started and tur...
The next day Elizabeth was anxiously waiting in the hall on Promenade Street for deliveries of both the newspapers. The exonerated Ian by splashing across the front page:MURDEROUS MARQUESS ACTUALLY H...
That miserable son of a bitch! he bit out between clenched teeth. After eleven years he’s going to have it his way. And all because I couldn’t keep my hands off her.The vicar could scarcely conceal hi...
That man, she announced huffily, referring to their host, can’t put two words together without losing his meaning! Obviously she’d expected better of the quality during the time she was allowed to mix...
Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.
Sam Littleton was a beautiful woman who would try to play women's games. That meant that if he asked her if she was upset with him about something, she would do what women all do at such times: She wo...
Normally, Bentner would have beamed approvingly at the pretty portrait the girls made, but this morning, as he put out butter and jam, he had grim news to impart and a confession to make. As he swept...
Lisa, have you ever met anyone and then known within minutes that he's the most special person you're ever going to meet in your life?
Lauren, he began gravely, I would like four daughters with wobbly blue eyes and studious horn-rimmed glasses on their little noses. Also, I've become very partial to your honey-colored hair,so if you...
If you’re suddenly as curious as I am to find out if it was as good between us as it now seems in retrospect, then say so. His own suggestion startled Ian, although having made it, he saw no great har...
If you will kiss me
If being ugly was a crime, they'd be hunting that woman down with helicopters and bloodhounds.
Ian saw only that the beautiful girl who had daringly come to his defense in a roomful of men, who had kissed him with tender passion, now seemed to be passionately attached not to any man, but to a p...
I suspect, however, that the thing that confuses you about Ian is that he’s half Scot. In many ways he’s more Scot than English, which accounts for what you’re calling a ruthless streak. He’ll do what...