Being a McKettrick meant claiming a piece of ground to stand on and putting your roots down deep into it. Holding on, no matter what came at you. It meant loving with passion and taking the rough spot...
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...
When she stepped out into the cool spring evening Major Halliday was waiting for her. He tilted his hat. Evening, Miss Chalmers, he said. Lily glowered at him. What do you want? The major smiled that...
Than that as Bex turned her back and started to take
You are impossible, Rupert said. I have half a mind to take you straight to the woodshed and blister your behind. Lily wasn’t worried; she knew her brother didn’t have a violent bone in his body. Good...
Insanity, the saying went, was doing the same thing over and over again and expecting to get different results.
When will you be back? he asked. It was an odd question, Lily reflected, coming from a man who usually went wherever he wished without so much as a word to her. She shrugged. I don’t see where that’s...
When she twisted around to face Steven, he was grinning at her. What? she demanded. Never mind. She realized she’d displayed her derriere, after a fashion, and the blood flowed to her face again. Skun...
Our children are going to be remarkably stubborn, he commented as they started down the main street of town. Lily tried to ignore the avid stares of passers-by. We aren’t going to have any children, s...
She wanted to ask about the McCaffreys' children, but the question seemed too personal. Westerners were private sorts, in Evangeline's judgment, with more than their share of secrets. It scares me a l...
He wished he knew how to make tea, wished he even had some to try with. That was what Miss June-bug wanted when she was feeling low, a good cup of tea, and it always seemed to brace her right up.
Muggles was back.
The trees harbored a clearing where a multitude of white daisies with centers as yellow as pirate’s doubloons rippled in the breeze. Looking at them, Emma forgot her troubles. There must be one for ev...
If you permit such a barbarous thing to happen, Caleb Halliday, I vow that I’ll never speak to you again. He pushed back his chair, and Lily’s hand in the process, to stand. If you have your way, we’l...
He smiled and kissed the tip of her nose, one hand resting lightly on her naked hip. It’s time this old house saw some joy again, don’t you think? Emma nodded. Your father and Macon’s mother—were they...
She started slightly when someone settled into the pew beside her, forcing her to move over. Lily’s brown eyes narrowed when she recognized Caleb Halliday. The major was dressed in a crisp blue unifor...
If you want to play this game, then so be it, he snapped. We’ll play settler until you finally learn what a miserable, hardscrabble life it really is! He’d swept his hat off his head, and when he slap...
My good man, he said to Charlie in a serious tone of voice, this young woman is a fugitive. Charlie looked horrified. You mean she done broke the law? Rupert favored Lily with a brief, triumphant glan...
I’ll stand by you, no matter what happens. To her surprise and hurt, Steven shook his head. No. You’re going to Whitneyville, not Louisiana. Until I’ve cleared my name, I won’t have anything to offer...
Couldn’t you stay? she whispered. Couldn’t someone else go on that cattle drive? He shook his head, then bent to kiss her lightly on the mouth. Be ready, he told her, when it was over, because when I...
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