I hate you, Caleb Halliday, she vowed. He kissed her lightly, and she caught the spicy female scent of her own body. Of course you do, darling, he said, propelling her toward the Tibbets’ front gate....
I hear Chloe is keeping a man in the house, he said stiffly. Now, Emma, you know I don’t mind about Big John Lenahan stopping by every now and again, but I draw the line— It isn’t your house, Fulton,...
If you marry the wrong man, Steven warned, in a voice all the more ominous because of its quietness, you’ll regret it into your old age. You’ll never pass a day—or a night—without remembering how it w...
If you weren’t so sorely injured, she said evenly, I would slap you. The laudanum was beginning to take affect, and Mr. Fairfax yawned expansively. You’ve already set me on fire and then tried to beat...
I’m leaving the army, he said. Lily felt hope leap within her breast. Maybe Caleb had changed his mind; maybe he wanted to be a farmer after all. She held her breath, waiting for him to go on. I want...
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...
Lily didn’t move until much later, when he crossed the room to swat her lightly on her quilt-covered bottom. Your bath water is hot again, he said quietly. Lock the door when I go. Lily turned to look...
Melissa had never really caught the culinary bug; in fact, she'd all but had herself vaccinated against it.
No matter what the future holds even if, God forbid, Conner dies in his prime, or leaves me, or whatever else that fates might throw at us it would be worth it because once you've loved someone the wa...
She awakened with a start to find Macon standing at the foot of the bed, watching her with a grin stretched across his face. His finger and thumb still lingered on her big toe. Stunned, she scooted to...
She knelt and began gathering up the dirty cups, plates, and silverware she’d dropped with the tray. The movements of her hands were quick and jerky, but she went still when she saw a pair of scuffed...
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....
She was sitting out a dance when Caleb took her hand, pulled her into the shadowy alcove off the ballroom, and presented her with a worn velvet box. This belonged to my mother, he said quietly. Holdin...
She was standing there, naked as a Greek statue, when the door suddenly opened and a gust of cool night air raised goosebumps all over her body. I forgot my hat, Caleb announced flatly, but his amber...
So you’ll be leaving now, I suppose, the banker said, breaking the strained silence. I don’t imagine a man like you cares to stay in one place too long. Steven folded his arms. Until just a few minute...
Sooner or later, given enough whiskey, hard work, and women, he’d have been able to put Emma Chalmers out of his mind. Now everything had changed. He couldn’t leave her to that fool of a hypocrite she...
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...
Steven cupped his hands behind his head and gazed up at the ceiling while he imagined how it would be if everything was all right in New Orleans, if he could take Emma to Fairhaven and make a life wit...
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 maneuvered the horse among the cattle that strayed from the herd as easily as if Emma hadn’t been mounted in front of him, whistling and waving his hat at times. In calmer moments, he told Emma...
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