Because of that, Sally refused to leave Blankenship House all day Monday for fear of missing him. She thought perhaps he would come by the afternoon. But he did not. All through dinner, she looked for him, but he did not come then, either. She was heartily glad that Glee and Blanks did not wish t...
What a shocking experience it was for a woman—a woman like her, who'd sworn off men for the rest of her days—to realize she had fallen in love. With that realization had also come the conviction that Melvin Steffington did not deserve to be thrown into the pit with the other unsatisfactory member...
Not once had he allowed himself to consciously consider asking for her hand. Not even during those eleven wretched days when every thought of her had tormented him. Not even when she had bestowed her most sincere smile upon him when he returned from Yarmouth Hall. Not even when he had eagerly acc...
Riding on top would allow him to better search the countryside for signs of Cathy—if she were out there alone in the wilderness.It would be bloody difficult to see anything, though. Night had fallen, and it was a black night with barely a sliver of moon notched into the darkness that wrapped arou...
"I was worried about you when you did not show up for your morning ride," she said, coming to sit at Anna's bedside. "Are you still unwell?"Anna knew it was futile to be less than honest with her perceptive sister. "If you must know, I'm in rather low spirits. Did you not notice how Charles exclu...
But never had she been possessed of more allure than when she sat there under the elm tree, sun dappling her pretty face through the tree's leaves. And she told him she had never been loved until she came to Marshbanks Abbey. Not until she uttered those words could he have realized the powerful e...