You may set your mind at rest, Miss Anstruther-Wetherby. He glanced down, the planes of his face granite-hard. I'm not marrying you because of any social stricture. That, if you consider it, is a nons...
Why are you here?Her words were a thread of silver in the moonlight. His answer was deep as the deepest shadows.You offered to be my inamorata, remember?
This morning, she still seemed distant, but more in the manner of planning
She woke to find dawn light, pearly silver tinged with pink, washing into the room. For a moment, she wondered what had woken her, then she glanced at Breckenridge-into his hazel eyes.You're awake! Sh...
I've grown sick of the upstairs parlor. The parlor he'd arranged for her. I'm bored there.Vane glanced at her as he juggled her to open the door. Bored?Patience looked into his eyes and wished she'd u...
Honoria ground her teeth. What on earth am I to do with you?Devil's features hardened, Marry me. His voice was a frustrated growl. The rest will follow naturally.
Holding her breath, she stepped out, heading for the better-illuminated section of the room.Hard hands closed about her upper arms.She started-very nearly squeaked-then once again wilted with relief a...
His rake's smile returning, Vane stood and strolled toward her. Speaking of performance, would you like me to carry you to lunch?She wouldn't- narrowing her eyes at him, Patience would have given half...
He collapsed half on top of her, too wrung out to move, his lungs working like bellows, his heart thundering, pounding.Gradually, it slowed. Sensation, muted awareness returned, enough to register the...
Get out of here, Antonia. Now. There was no real force behind the command, as if only a part of him meant it.
Deciding that at the moment it behooved her to, as Wiry had put it, behave, Heather inclined her head, first to the woman alongside her, Martha, then to the barrel-chested man, shorter than Wiry but o...
At what age did men mature? If ever? And at what age did a woman cease having to deal with men acting as if they owned the right to lustfully indulge in a woman, be it with his eyes or hands?There was...
She stared at him, at his face. Simply stared as the scales fell from her eyes. Oh, my God, she whispered, the exclamation so quiet not even he would hear. She suddenly saw-saw it all-all that she'd s...
Love truly is the most transformative power in heaven and on earth.
Just her luck to be abducted by kidnappers who could think.
Just because fate had shown him the water, didn't mean he had to drink.Of course, before he shook the gravel of the Bellamy Hall drive from his boots, he'd deal with Patience Debbington, too. A saluta...
She did.She understood now what fate asked of her-to have the strength to hold on regardless. To acknowledge that, even if he died, even if he left her, she would still love him until the day she died...
You've given me everything I need of you-thanks to you I have all my heart desires, all I thought I might never have. All I need for a wonderful, fulfilling future. And I nearly lost it all.She held h...
They were also invincibly arrogant, a characteristic fueled by the fact that they were, by and large, as talented as they thought themselves, a situation which engendered in less-favored mortals a cer...
She’d been expecting him to do so and had planned her revenge. She tipped forward as he lifted her; the shift in her weight had him taking a half step back, then he instinctively locked his legs and s...