That man had deliberately set out to charm her. It didn't matter that he'd succeeded, she thought perversely. It only mattered that he had done it deliberately, probably because he wanted something fr...
Speaking of which, he murmured.Hyacinth’s mouth fell open as he dropped down to oneknee. What are you doing? she squeaked, franticallylooking this way and that. Lord St. Clair was surely peekingout at...
So now you're jumping out at me from ?Of course not. He looked affronted. That was a staircase.Sophie peered around him. It was the side staircase. The staircase. Certainly not anyplace a family memb...
She tried to say something witty; she tried to say something seductive. But her bravado failed her at the last moment. She’d never been kissed before, and now that she had all but invited him to be th...
She should have been relieved that she did not do something she was sure to regret. But she wasn't. She wanted her regrets. She wanted them desperately. She wanted to do something she knew she should...
She didn‟t like to be thwarted, and she certainly did not enjoy admitting that she might not be able to arrange her world—and the people inhabiting it—to her satisfaction.
Sebastian got up and walked to the window, resting his forehead against the pane. It was cold outside, and the icy chill pressed up against him through the glass. He liked the sensation. It was big. G...
One of us should save her, Benedict mused. Nah, Colin said, grinning. Mother’s only had her over there with Macclesfield for ten minutes. Macclesfield? Simon asked. The earl, Benedict replied. Castlef...
Nothing had the power to irritate like the reflection of one’s own behavior in someone else.
Michael, I am most pleased to see you up and about and looking so fine and healthy.He inclined his head, thanking her for the compliment.She dabbed the corners of her mouth daintily with her napkin. B...
Michael had to clutch the end of the table to keep from rising. He could have had Shakespeare at his side to translate, and still not have been able to explain why Colin‟s remark infuriated him so.
Marcus’s appearance theday before had been discussed, dissected, analyzed, and—by LadySarah Pleinsworth, Honoria’s cousin and one of her closest friends—rendered into poetry.He came in the rain, Sarah...
Lady Whistledown always had all the latest , and unlike other columnists, she wasn’t hesitant about using people’s full names. Having decided last week, for example, that Kate didn’t look good in yell...
Kate’s mind was obviously not lodged as firmly in the gutter as his, since she chose to sit in the chair opposite him, even though there was plenty of room in his chair, provided they didn’t mind sque...
John ignored her insult, recognizing it for what it was: a mindless jibe from one wounded animal to another.
It’s just that when you agree to be mother to a child you haven’t borne, your responsibility is twice as great. You must work even harder to ensure that child’s happiness and welfare.
It was the sort of kiss that seduced with subtlety, sent tingles through her body and left her desperate for more.
It was funny, he reflected later, how one’s life could alter in aninstant, how oneminute everything could be a certain way, and the next it’s simply ... not
It was cold. Really cold. And there was an awful scurrying noise that definitely belong to a small, four-legged creature.Or even worse, a large, four-legged creature. Or to be more precise, a large ve...
It was as if her insides were light-headed. And her heart was not beating quite properly. It wasn’t racing, and it wasn’t pounding … It was dancing. Singing.