The driver tried to help Emma down, but he found himself elbowed aside by a tight-jawed Steven. Where the hell have you been? Emma’s husband demanded, grasping her shoulders in his hands. Emma met his...
She yanked open the door, and her smile faded. The same Indian who had wanted to trade two horses for her was standing on the apple crate that served as a front step, his black hair dripping with wate...
She came into the room, carrying a kerosene lantern this time, and Steven couldn’t help cringing when he thought of the damage that could do. But
Mrs. Tibbet, the colonel’s wife, was always looking for a housekeeper. Every time she hired one the lady would marry a soldier departing for home and leave the Tibbets’ employ. A slow grin spread acro...
Lily was left feeling disgruntled and confused. She didn’t like Caleb Halliday. He was rude, arrogant, and insufferable. His intentions toward her were not at all honorable. So why had she agreed to h...
I’m a sucker for punishment, Joslyn answered cheerfully. There’s something about him— Raw sexual magnetism, maybe? Kendra prompted, beginning to perk up as the caffeine hit her bloodstream. You notice...
I resent your insinuation that Fulton is a coward, she said. He’s a very fine man. Suddenly, Steven stopped right in the middle of the trail. Emma, who had just built up a good head of steam, collided...
It was a gift. The
I want to marry your sister, he announced after he and Rupert had consumed the better part of a chicken, along with mashed potatoes, gravy, and corn, at the simple table in Rupert’s kitchen. Lily had...
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...
His eyes met hers, and he smiled shyly. I guess you know I’d do just about anything for you, Miss Lily. Even farming, if it came to that. There was a rider coming over the rise, and Lily knew in an in...
Steven raised himself on an elbow, plucked a daisy, and put it through Emma’s loose braid. He continued until a trail of white flowers paraded from her scalp to the place beneath her breast where her...
He must love you, Bianca went on brokenly, if he’d follow you all this way. Lily shook her head. She couldn’t bear for Bianca’s words to be true, or for them to be a lie. She wished she’d never met Ca...
Everything worth doing involves risk.
Steven longed to comfort her, but he didn’t dare. After all, he’d practically called her a prostitute earlier, albeit by mistake, and despite the sponge bath he figured he most likely smelled like a m...
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 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...
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 grinned at her, and although he was in dire need of a shave and his hair was rumpled, Emma’s heart gave a little lurch.
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