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...
Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it. Sadness is just--well--being sad.
Lily pretended he hadn’t spoken—that he wasn’t even there, for that matter—but the moment the door closed behind him Velvet burst out in uproarious laughter. If this don’t beat anything I’ve ever seen...
Lily came suddenly and violently awake a few hours later, and she stared up at Caleb with wide eyes as he held her in place on the bed, her hands pressed into the pillows. Who was it? he demanded. Lil...
Justice, of course, was an elusive thing, very subjective in some ways, too often more of a concept than a reality, but without the pursuit of that ideal, where would humanity be?
Just a damn minute, Caleb barked, bringing her up short with a quick grasp on her elbow. Where do you think you’re going? To my brother’s home, Lily replied, her chin high. Kindly unhand me, Major. If...
I’d like you to have supper with me this evening, he called out, in jovial expectation of her ready agreement. Emma walked circumspectly toward him, so that she wouldn’t be forced to shout her refusal...
It was a gift. The
I want to practice my marksmanship, she said. Touch those rifles and I’ll tan your hide, Caleb warned. Lily squared her shoulders. I’ll just have to do it on my own, I guess. Though I daresay there ar...
His arm slipped around her shoulders, and she was too tired, she told herself, to shrug it off. She turned her head to look up at him. Thank you, she said softly. For what? Caleb asked, watching her f...
He kissed the soft expanse of her neck. Don’t be ashamed, tigress, he whispered. There’s never been anything more beautiful than a woman willingly surrendering her body to a man. There
He ached, not just to have her beneath him, but to have her beside him. He wanted to tell her why he needed to go home and face Joss, why he was tired of the army, why he wanted sons and daughters. He...
Everybody's heart is like a cup. They stumble from place to place and person to person, trying to get them filled. They get cracked, those cups, and even broken. Some people throw them away, thinking...
Emma awakened Steven rudely by arching her back and letting out a howl of startled discomfort. He sat bolt upright in bed, shoved one hand through his hair in agitation, and babbled that he was willin...
By God, if I were twenty years younger, he thundered, I’d drag you outside and horsewhip you! Steven
Kibble, coffee and a few other staples, and headed,
Attitudes
You’re forgetting, her father pointed out reluctantly, that Steven Fairfax is spoken for. He’s got his eye on Miss Emma Chalmers. Joellen was horrified. That dowdy little snippet who runs the library?...
Your Lily is a pretty little thing, but she’s as fractious as my Susannah. Caleb grinned. It’s going to take two hands and all my wits to keep her in line, he confessed. Unwillingly,
You're the one with the badge, I admitted, but I'm the one being haunted by a seven-year-old in a ballerina costume.