Wanna try my ride for a change? he asked her. It’s not too cold today. She looked around him. On that? Just you and me, Shelby. Want to take a chance? She gave him a soft smile. Am I safe with you on...
Walt looked over his shoulder at a sound and both men watched as Vanni opened the corral gate, mounted Chico and rode away from the ranch, down along the riverbank. Well, she’s getting away from you....
Vanni, I want to marry you, take care of you and Mattie. She frowned slightly. Wait a minute—is there anything else you should tell me before you propose? Any other little secret stuffed in the back o...
Vanni rocked Hannah back and forth, tears running down her cheeks. Hannah settled back against Vanni and looked up at her face. She put a pudgy little hand against Vanni’s cheek and said, Mama. Yes, m...
Vanessa had no trouble imagining how the general could look scary as hell to his troops. But this morning, at the kitchen table with just his daughter and grandson, he was soft as a puppy. She reached...
This sounds like an incredible young woman. She is that. Very mild mannered—hard to guess she could have that kind of conviction. Stubbornness. Strength, Aiden added. Commitment. Well, you’d have to b...
This crowd of men, each one of them what would be called a man’s man, so driven in the masculine pursuits of soldiering, hunting, fishing and the like, loved women, pregnant women especially, and the...
The ride back to Virgin River wasn’t exactly quiet—Jeremy was a literal motormouth. Jack heard the details of the surgery several times. While Jeremy’s wife was in recovery and his son in the nursery,...
The one thing she had learned was that to be tolerated and endured was less dignified than being hated. And it was infinitely more painful.
The expression on his face should be enough to terrify the man who held her. Bare chested, barefoot, his jeans zipped but not buttoned, his shoulders and arms frighteningly huge, big tattoos on his sw...
The door jerked open and he glowered at her. What do you want? Hey! Why are you mad at me? I just want to talk to you. I don’t want to talk, he said, pushing the door closed. With inexplicable courage...
The cabin in Virgin River might be ready, but Mel sure wasn’t. The baby at Doc’s was keeping her in town for now, but it was impractical to think of her caring for Chloe out at the cabin—there was onl...
Stop it, he said. You don’t have to draw me any more pictures. I know Shelby is nothing like Felicia. I wasn’t talking about Shelby, Maureen said. I was talking about you. In this case you’d be the on...
Still can’t believe you did that to me. I just fucking can’t believe it! Like you didn’t know how much I loved you! Jesus, I gave you everything. Ever think you’d live in a house like the one I built...
Sometimes you learn your best lessons when you add up all your losses. She
So. She left you. What are you talking about? I’m talking about the perfect nymphet, Shelby. She left you and you’re going down the shitter. He took a drink of his beer. Luke silently and meanly glare...
So, I invited my brother to go over to the coast to have a beer, check out the women, and what does he tell me? Not interested in doing that—he wants to go to this little bar in Virgin River. But he d...
So this was what it felt like when you loved someone, when you wanted to please someone rather than just be pleased. When you paid attention to what made her purr and sigh. He hadn’t known about it. A...
So Luke went to the back of the SUV where Sean was unloading way too many suitcases for five nights. You’d think she was taking a fricking cruise. Your death is going to be slow and painful. Aw, come...
Shelby is a wonderful young woman. You’re good together. Mother… It isn’t just her. Oh, it’s obvious she loves you. But it’s also you. The second she’s near you, all those tense lines in your face rel...