I remember thinking that the Germans must have had a very fine view of all the neighborhoods they were obliterating.
How good to see you, Miss Jones.That debonair tone, the friendly press of his hand upon mine. It was such a contrast to our final moments in the cottage that I couldn’t help but smirk.Thank you for ha...
By the next afternoon, a shepherd boy had heard his shouts and he’d been hauled up the cliffs and confined to an empty pigeon house, the sole survivor of his doomed mission.Gone cracked, though, from...
There were seven of them. They smiled seven identical smiles, and the message behind each was identical, as well. It read:
I would give up all the summers of eternity for you. I love you. Forever and my summer days, I'll love you.
I thought that ground fire couldn’t reach the zeppelins, I said. I thought that guns on the ground didn’t have the range.Eleanore. Do you imagine for one particle of one second that he was thinking cl...
He straightened. Are you ready?Yes. He nodded, his gaze traveling the length of her body, deliberately, slowly, as if to memorize her as she stood.Then may I have a kiss? he asked, unmoving. For luck?...
He had a swift and utterly lucid vision of himself in this position in thirty-odd years. Loathsome tea, hot steam, silver spoon, and fifty-year-old Chloe seated opposite him talking about clothing, be...
But how… am I a dragon? How are a starman?I don’t think of myself as a , exactly, he said soberly, though I sensed he wanted to smile. His hand released mine, the bridge broken; he moved to hang the...
You snore.
You need to get home, both of you. Louis, I’d like to keep the letters here, if you don’t mind. I want to go over them again.I came to my feet. And ask the stars about them?Jesse nodded. Armand only s...
You speak. It came out as an accusation.When there's someone around worth speaking to.
There are things in this world, she said steadily, still holding Zane's eyes, that defy easy words. There are things in this world worth protecting, fragile things, secret things. Things that would do...
Lora, beloved. Lora of the moon and sky. are a dragon., sighed the fiend, swelling with delight inside me, filled with an awful, awful recognition. That is , I shouted over them both; rather, I tried...
It is considered an honor to be…plucked from the crowd, so to speak. There are fine families in the district who have lived here for generations, none of whom have been so favored with the duke’s atte...
I pulled at the knot again and heard threads begin to pop.Allow me, Miss Jones, said Armand, right at my back.There was no gracious way to refuse him. Not with Mrs. Westcliffe there, too.I exhaled and...
But Holms had proven stalwart and valiant. When Miss Jones had shown up to discover them in the castle hallway, because she’d heard a suspicious noise and had feared for her schoolchums’ safety, they’...
Zane gestured to the table.Did you see what I brun-brought?She shook her head, turning back to the papers. I've read these.Not that one. Nipped it from The Spotted Dog. Last week's news, but I thought...
When her gaze met his, her irises were luminous, pooling bright silvery purple, a definitely inhuman glow.He’d awoken the beast in her.Good. What you? she whispered.Jesse took a step back to clear hi...
There are certain moments in life when hard, hot truth shines at you like a spotlight from heaven, like the focused beam from a lighthouse on the shore of yourself, and you find yourself stripped nake...