The main boy—the one who was calling the shots—pushed
The pressure of his mouth eased. He drew away, holding her at arm’s length. He filled her vision, broad shoulders and shaggy head framed by the crags and cliffs of Connemara. He had a look of astonish...
You mustn’t touch me. Very slowly, he lowered his hand. You need to be touched, Caitlin MacBride. You need it very badly. She girded herself with denial. Even if it were so, I would not need it from a...
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. —Buddha
The term honeymoon was coined to refer to the sweetness of a new marriage. But according to Norse legend, a man abducted his bride from a neighboring village. He was then required to take her into hid...
Then you agree that you should keep me. With the smug satisfaction of an argument won, he propped his shoulder against the stall door. Her eyes picked him over as if he were a carved goose on a table....
There are many ways to make a family, and that’s really the essence of The Lakeshore Chronicles books. As each story ends, a new one unfolds. The one element they all have in common is the key ingredi...
There can be no fooling ourselves into thinking this is something other than what it is—the willful ejection of Molly from our nest. It’s too late for second thoughts, anyway. She has to be moved into...
Wake up & Smell The Hot Chocolate ! ~ Eddie Havens
Torta Crema (Italian Cream Cake) 1 stick unsalted butter, softened 1/ 2 cup shortening 2 cups sugar 5 eggs, separated 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon soda 1 cup buttermilk 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup flaked coco...
There was something in the way a man held a woman when he was about to let her go.
You can either kill me. Or marry me, he said. His suggestion slammed into her with the force of a blow. She reeled back. No! He bent and began fishing nails out of the bucket. No to what? To both choi...
There were only a few things that truly mattered. Family and friends and connection. Understanding and selfless love.
They basked in the sweet-scented breeze, and felt the sunshine warming their bare heads. Petals drifted from the gnarled apple and cherry trees, creating a pretty storm, like confetti. They lay togeth...
They’d take Nina’s hair tonight, leaving only enough to cover her scalp—the k.d. lang look, Jezebel explained. Paige would weave the hair, strand by strand, into a wig modeled after Nina’s natural loo...
Things happen as they are meant to happen. There is no grand plan, just flawed human beings bumbling through life.
This is the first real food I've had since the patisserie trolley at the Bordeaux airport, Shannon said. She took a bite, and an expression of rapture came over her face. They'll probably close the bo...
This was the House that Jack Built, she thought, hearing the singsong rhythm of the old children’s story in her head. And this was the wife who lived in the house that Jack built. And there was the mi...
But in a town full of nobodys, she’s practically somebody.
Time and circumstances could batter away at it, like waves on a rocky shore, but for some people, love never died.
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