How can dreams be secondhand? Lissie asked, sounding both skeptical and intrigued.Addie flipped on the headlights, watched the snowflakes dancing in the beams. Sometimes people give up on them, becaus...
How are things out on the Circle L? Big John shrugged shoulders the size of a grizzly bear’s. We’re shorthanded, as always, and Joellen’s a handful. I sure wish Chloe would break down and marry me, so...
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...
Her fatigue was gone; she felt vital and strong, like a tree coming back to life in the springtime, vibrant with sap, ready to put out buds and then blossoms.
Hello, darling. Did Fulton leave? Yes, Emma answered, smoothing her skirts before she sat in the chair opposite Chloe’s. Good. I can’t think what you see in that lumbering baboon. Emma was used to Chl...
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...
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...
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.
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 shifted her gaze to Steven, sitting just ahead of her at a table, Garrick Wright beside him. As though sensing her perusal, Steven shifted in his chair to look back at her, and to her utter amaze...
Echo:The thing about love is you always end up losing it.Cora: Oh but what you miss if you wont take the chance.
As luck would have it, Caleb appeared at supper that night. His uniform had been shaken out and pressed, and his butterscotch hair gleamed with cleanliness. He brought Cuban cigars for Rupert and a de...
Than she was, but for the next three days—or was it four?—the kids’ meals would be her responsibility. Let’s go out for pizza! Matt suggested exuberantly. He was standing on the raised hearth of the d...
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 little idiot. How the hell do you propose to plow fields, fend off Indians and outlaws, and build a house all by yourself? Lily was wounded. Maybe I won’t be by myself, she said, wanting to hurt h...
You can’t work for Big John with your ribs bound! she protested, when she’d recovered somewhat. How will you ride? I’m glad you’re concerned about my well-being, Steven replied in a voice meant to car...
Why won’t you give up this silly idea of homesteading? Gertrude went on. Her tone of voice was moderate, but her blue eyes were snapping. I can’t help thinking you’re just being stubborn, Lily. Caleb...
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...