It was a damned good thing men couldn’t have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that thehuman race would have died out generations earlier.
If you do not apologize to Lady Honoria, Marcus said, his voice so mild as to be terrifying, I will kill you.There was a collective gasp, and Daisy faked a swoon, sliding elegantly into Iris, who prom...
If someone loved you -someone decent and kind that is- you had a responsibility not to trample all over her heart. And while he had no intention of hurting Emma, he knew that he could injure her just...
I'm glad you liked the journal,' he said.'It was lovely,' she said in soft, faraway kind of voice. 'Very lovely, and...' She looked away, blushing. 'You're going to think I'm silly.''Never,' he promis...
I love you, too, she said.He took her face in his hands and kissed her, once,deeply, on the mouth. I mean, he said, I really loveyou.She quirked a brow. Is this a contest?It is anything you want, he p...
How in the hell am I supposed to watch my back if I have no idea what I'm watching for?
His hand was on her arm, and he could feel her skin, feel the soft warmthof it, and then when he looked down, her face was tilted toward his, and her eyes, deep and bluebut so completely unmysterious,...
He was no fool; he knew that love existed. But he also believed inthe power of the mind, and perhaps even more importantly, the power of the will. Frankly, he saw noreason why love should be an involu...
He gave her his best smile. Hisbest I-almost-died-so-how-can-you-deny-me smile. Or at leastthat’s how he hoped it appeared. The truth was, he wasn’t a veryaccomplished flirt, and it might very well ha...
He closed his eyes. The insides of his eyelids were a brownish black, not at all the same as the thick purple of the night. Darkness had so many colors. It was strange, that, and perhaps a little disq...
And, she was able to tell herself with some satisfaction, the man in question - one Colin Bridgerton - felt precisely the same way........His earth shook, his heart leaped, and Penelope knew without a...
A misunderstanding? Elizabeth echoed. With an anvil?Oh, stop, Harriet admonished her. I think he looks very dashing.As if he dashed into an anvil.
A man with charm is an entertaining thing, and a man with looks is, ofcourse, a sight to behold, but a man with honor - ah, he is the one, dear reader, to which young ladies should flock.
When Francesca had turned to him with those bottomless blue eyes and said, 'The baby was to have been yours in a way, too,' she'd shattered him to his very soul.She didn't know.She had no idea.And as...
Last season glowering at me. I did
The waltz allowed him to get just close enough to her to detect that maddening scent of lemons, and he inhaled it as if it would save his life.
She needed him to be him. Even if he could not be hers.
Never, he spat out, kick a man who is pointing a gun at you.
Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron, Sebastian said approvingly. Excellent choice.You have read this? Alexei asked.It’s not as good as Miss Davenport and the Dark Marquis, of course, but worlds better...
An eternity later, they reached what he thought might be the end, and King Henry waved his turkey leg in the air, loudly proclaiming, This land shall be mine, henceforth and forevermore! And indeed, i...