The miles between Tylerville and Spokane passed quickly, and the growing city was visible in the distance when suddenly there were shouts and the stagecoach came to a sudden stop. Lily heard Sam Hargr...
The expression in Steven’s eyes showed both understanding and amusement, and he watched with undisguised interest as Emma hastily covered her still-pulsing bosom. I know, he sighed, with a crooked, te...
That was then. This is now.
Steven laid Emma gently on the carpet of daisies to take the little flagon from her hand. She watched, half bewitched, as he removed the stopper and touched it ever so lightly to the pulse point at th...
Steven grinned as though he could see right through her. He was finely dressed, but she could see the bulge of his .45 beneath his suitcoat. Hello, Miss Emma, he said, taking off his new beaver hat. M...
Steven didn’t speak again, didn’t try to erase what she was feeling. Instead, he found a comb in her handbag, knelt behind her, and gently began working the tangles out of her hair. Maybe the women of...
Steven didn’t see Emma again for a full week, and while he told himself it was for the best, he ached to see her every moment of that time. He spent his days pacing the room with Callie Visco under hi...
Steven Fairfax was nothing but a saddle-bum—maybe he was even wanted by the law—and bathing him was not a ladylike thing to do. Still, there was the way he smiled. And that glint of mischief in his ey...
Something is happening, all right. But it’s perfectly natural, Lily. Stop worrying and let me show you what it means to be a woman. Her
Some instinct told Steven who the ladies’ man was even before Chloe spoke. You’ve been so curious about Mr. Fairfax, Fulton, she said, in an idle tone. Here he is. The banker. Steven got to his feet,...
So, he said, putting an arm around her shoulders and escorting her toward his small wooden house, you’ve finally come to your senses and decided to settle down and make a real life for yourself. The m...
She was surprised when the major squatted down to help, but she wouldn’t meet his eyes. What’s your name? he asked. Lily flung the last of the silverware onto the tray with a clatter. It’ll be mud if...
She stiffened in relief and shock when the door opened and Steven walked in. He actually had the audacity to grin at her as he swept off his hat. Hello, Miss Emma, he said. Emma felt heat surge from h...
She snuggled closer to him, her head resting on his shoulder, and continued her idle exploration of his chest, adding the occasional foray to his taut belly. Are you scared? she finally dared to ask....
See that you mind your manners, that’s all. No gentleman will buy the cow when he knows he can get the milk for nothing. Lily managed not to roll her eyes until she’d turned her back on Mrs. McAlliste...
Scoundrel! she accused through her teeth. You deliberately let everyone see me with you—including Fulton! Steven arched his eyebrows in a counterfeit expression of surprise. Don’t tell me Mr. Whitney...
No, Jack struggled to quip, but
Melissa had never really caught the culinary bug; in fact, she'd all but had herself vaccinated against it.
Lily stepped back to admit him, her gaze catching on the chocolates again. It was Caleb’s aim to make her look at him just the way she was looking at that red satin box. He extended the candy and knew...
Joss’s littlest child, a girl with her father’s curly hair, came bounding down the path toward them. Papa, is Uncle Caleb really a damn Yankee? she chirped. Joss didn’t so much as glance in Caleb’s di...