Her eyes were as hard and bright as stars. Not the pretty sort that poets mooned about, but the kind that made men's destinies.
Gentlemen do so appreciate a nicely trimmed décolletage.
Embroidered Louis XV chair, legs crossed at the
[He] had insisted that inanimate objects couldn't have malignant motivations, but Emma had extensive proof to the contrary.
You’re not holding it against Jane that Gwen asked her to bring you home? I didn’t know, he added quickly. Not until the plan was in motion. And by then—I don’t imagine many people say no to Mrs. Reid...
She won’t come that way.Jack’s stepmother stepped out beside him on the large terrace in front of the fortress. All around them, the setting sun painted the sky a brilliant red and purple that only ac...
She responded to Letty's well-meaning suggestions with the unblinking disdain perfected by cats in their dealings with their humans.
She could feel herself pressing the details into memory, saving them like dried flowers kept in a spinster's chest, relics of a past that might have been, of a future that never was.
Only the silver head of his cane blazed with reflected fire, held aloft above the grave like a medieval necromancer summoning spirits from the vasty deep.
I’ll believe it when I see it, missy. Snakes don’t change their scales, no matter how many times he—Miss Gwen poked her sword parasol in the Gardener’s general direction—changes his name. What has it...
I didn't know there could be an almost kiss. It seems like the sort of thing that either happens or it doesn't. Oh no... There's an entire universe of near misses out there, kisses that almost were, b...
There were, he had come to the conclusion after many tedious evenings at Almack’s, two types of chaperone. Given the number of events he had been forced to squire Hen to, Richard considered he had con...
The leaves do fad and fall away, / Berries rot and sheaves decay; / The deer is fled back to the field. / That is all your promises yield. / All wind and words, your vows, I see, / Are barren as the f...
Sunset. He had promised her until sunset. If something goes wrong, we need to get her out.Miles Dorrington looked thoughtful. I say, we could raise the Jolly Roger and storm the fort as pirates. While...
Ooof! Amy collided at high speed with someone entering the anteroom from the other direction. Her head was still spinning as a pair of capable hands righted her, and a warm chuckle sounded somewhere a...
Love doesn't attack; it infiltrates.
If Amy had been around for the creation of the world, Jane had no doubt that she would have chivvied the Lord into creating the earth in two days rather than seven.
I should have known something was wrong when my advisor’s parting words were Good luck. To his credit, he had—very gently—suggested that I might want to consider a different sort of topic. But I didn’...
His mother made a noise that in anyone of lower rank than a countess would have been given the unmannerly name of snort. As a cowed member of the ton had once commented, ‘Nobody harrumphs quite like t...
Four pounds, demanded the fourteen-foot-high statue of Hercules.For such a big man, Hercules had a surprisingly high-pitched voice. It took me a moment to realize that it wasn't actually a piece of cl...