Adorei!! Fechou muito bem a série e não teve pontas soltas. A mocinha, que estava sumida desde o primeiro livro, (apesar de eu saber muito bem onde ela estava, afinal, para bom observador, meia pista basta) finalmente aparece como dama de companhia de cachorro de madame!Ela salva o cachorrinho de...
The Odds Were Really Stacked Against Them Alexander Blair was almost twice Lauri's age. He also owned the company where she was a typist -- definitely out of her league. And he changed his girl friends at regular intervals. She despised that type of man. All they had in common was a strong, unden...
"I wanted you, Danielle, the moment I saw you."Nicholas Andracas was not only commissioning Danielle to paint the portrait of his latest mistress, he was also boldly trying to seduce her with his lethal charm.The rich and arrogant oil tycoon didn't recognize Danielle as the young woman who'd give...
How are you?’ Sara blinked up at the tall attractive man in front of her, smiling her regret. ‘I’m sorry,’ her American accent was very noticeable against his English one, ‘I’m afraid you have the wrong person.’ She turned away with an apologetic smile, wishing that she could have been the absent...
Which could mean only one thing… Laura marched determinedly over to the reception desk, her eyes, with their different colours, sparkling angrily. ‘Could you call Mr O’Reilly’s suite, please, and tell him that Laura is waiting for him downstairs?’ ‘Certainly, madam.’ The receptionist smiled at he...
Mattie! Are you awake?’ A second knock on her bedroom door accompanied this last question. Of course she was awake. Awake and miserable. And she didn’t think letting Jack into her bedroom at this late hour—a quick glance at the glowing digital bedside clock showed her it was two-thirty in the mor...
“Nope.” Why would Jonas be nervous about the best day of his life? The second-best day. The very best day was when Lily told him she loved him as much as he loved her, and she had agreed to marry him. Six weeks later, he was sitting at the front of the church, Seth beside him as his best man, wit...
The sun was shining brightly and a breeze blew lightly off the sea. ‘Little seems to have thought of everything,’ Jaxon murmured appreciatively as he uncorked a bottle of chilled white wine before pouring it into the two crystal glasses he had unwrapped from tissue paper. ‘Years of practice, I ex...
She could hear the buzz of excitement behind the drawn curtains at the front of the small raised stage, and knew that the male patrons of the gambling club were anticipating the moment when those curtains would be pulled back and her performance began. Caro’s heart began to pound, the blood thrum...
Nick ate in stony silence, and Gemini was unwilling to break that silence. Because she didn’t know what to say! Everything, it seemed, had been said the previous evening. Now it was a question of waiting to see what happened next. But it certainly wasn’t the time for Mrs James to quietly enter th...
Without further conversation either. Certainly without a repeat of any of the caresses and pleasure of this morning.Instead, Ranulf laid his head back against the carriage seat, and to all intents and purposes, fell asleep.Leaving Darcy alone with her thoughts.Which were far from pleasant.Ranulf ...
“Yes.” Truth. “Would you like me to do it again, at some later date?” “Yes.” Truth. “Do you accept that there was no intention on my part to cause you pain, only give you pleasure?” “Oh yes.” She trembled in his arms. Truth. “Has S...
But then, insane was pretty much how he’d felt since meeting up with Kat again. He had spent most of the past forty-eight hours being either angry for or at Kat, or so aroused he couldn’t think straight. “When I lift, put your legs about my waist,” he instructed gruffly as he reached for her. “Ka...
He held her curved tightly against his side, their laughter having finally subsided. Cathy Barton had prepared a delicious meal earlier this evening, but Lucan really hadn’t been hungry enough to do Cathy’s cooking justice following his argument with Lexie. He had a feeling that Lexie hadn’t eate...
In the end, Nina hadn’t been able to resist accompanying him there; if this was to be their one and only date, as it probably would be, then she intended making the most of it. The modern décor of Rafe’s apartment had come as something of a surprise to her, even a disappoi...
Emily sat up in alarm.“Hear what?”“I thought I heard a noise…”“You are imagining things.” Xander kissed her long and deeply.After which Emily could not see or hear anything but him, totally compliant as Xander helped her remove her gown and camisole, completely naked now as she lay on the blanket...
And again he worried that, after wanting her, desiring her, loving her for so long, he wouldn’t be able to retain control over the increasingly desperate need he felt to make love to her completely. The last thing Marcus wanted to do was hurt Julianna, frighten her with th...
Still slightly pale, and uncharacteristically fragile in her demeanour, the dowager duchess had, as she had said she would, rallied from her sickbed in order to take her place as hostess of the Royston Ball. Justin’s mood had not improved since he and Eleanor had parted so...
“Go to hell!” “Been there, done that, not going back again,” Caleb assured him grimly. Getting into Sinclair’s apartment had proved easy with Angel’s knowledge of the servants’ lift. It was doubtful Sinclair had even bothered to know where or how his housekeeper and chauffeur entered the building...
The two of them drove along the busy London streets in silence for some minutes, Miranda obviously still slightly shell-shocked from the conversation with his mother. Darius brooded over the fact that he was responsible for having placed Miranda in that vulnerable position in the first place. Not...
Gaia’s answer to Gregori’s impatiently repeated instruction was to increase her pace. Not that she would have stood any chance of out-walking or even out-running the powerful black car crawling along the road beside her. It looked like a make of an expensive sports car. She’d lived in London her ...
Alexandre instructed Christophe distractedly, his attention on Anastazia rather than the other man.He had quickly dismissed the two intruders from the bathroom after Lissa dropped the double bombshell of the reporters outside and the belief that Anastazia had tried to kill him. His attempt to tak...
Dante had no intention of waiting to hear her refusal as he drew her determinedly onto the dance floor the moment the musicians began to play a waltz. “You know perfectly well ‘we’ do not HAVE ‘a dance’!” Her eyes flashed her displeasure as she attempted to resist going in...
It had seemed like hours, and yet it could equally have been only minutes. Time had become unimportant to her since she had seen Dominic fall to the ground after receiving that blow to the back of his head. None of her anguished thoughts since that time had been for hersel...
Diana was too shocked at the state of her hotel room to be able to answer Seth’s dryly drawled comment as he stood in the doorway. The room was a mess. The few clothes she had brought with her had been taken out of her bag and were now strewn across the floor, including everything from her toilet...
Or is it just that you are contemplating what singular delights you might have in store for me later this evening?’ Hawk mused derisively to the woman standing—hiding?—behind the potted plant at his side. ‘Perhaps you intend spilling a glass of wine over me during dinner? Or maybe hot tea later i...
‘I advise you not to attempt to tell me how to treat my own wife, Gray.’ Darius put down the creamy dainty that threatened to choke him if he should attempt to eat another bite. In fact, the single bite he had taken, in an effort to convince Arabella of his uninterest in her or anything she did, ...
Having spent most of the afternoon shopping—on his credit card!—she hadn’t expected him to have returned home from his office just yet. ‘Did you buy the whole of the toyshop or just half of it?’ he drawled ruefully as he took the parcels out of her arms to reveal that he m...
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Gabriel’s eyes narrowed on the paleness of her face as she sat stiffly upright in her own chair. ‘Considering our—past acquaintance, shall we say?—I believe refraining from addressing me as “Mr Danti” in that superior tone would be a good way to begin.’ She raised her brows in what she hoped was ...
A dark scowl creased his brow as he saw how the colour had once again leeched from those creamily smooth cheeks. ‘Perhaps you should sit down for a minute—’ ‘Please don’t!’ She stepped back and away from the hand Gabriel had raised with the intention of lightly grasping her arm, her fingers tight...
A darkness that was not only physical, but also emotional. The depth of their lovemaking had been so consuming that even now he found it difficult to comprehend exactly what she was about from the little she had told him—not an altogether pleasant experience for a man who had always prided himsel...
Christian indicated the decanter on the table beside him as he remained seated in an armchair beside the unlit fireplace, looking across the room to where Sylvie stood hesitantly beside the door Smith had recently closed behind her, and looking ethereally beautiful in a gown of deep gold. “Or per...
Anna stiffened, her back turned towards the owner of the voice as she knelt in the parsonage garden weeding the bed of herbs. It would be an understatement for her to claim she had been dreading this meeting after the village became abuzz with the news that the new Duke of Northamptonshire had ar...
Michael looked every inch the dark and compelling archangel he was named for as he bore down on where she and Pierre were standing talking together in the reception area of the gallery. And Michael was right—Eva should have been in his office on the third floor ten minutes...
But the strained silence around this dinner table certainly wasn’t helping to improve that situation! Adam and Rome didn’t appear to be talking to each other—indeed, Rome wasn’t particularly talking to any of them!—and any remarks that passed between Andie and Adam were politely strained. In fact...
The older man greeted him warmly and the two men shook hands. George Delacorte was a tall, distinguished-looking man with iron-grey hair and twinkling brown eyes that belied the shrewd trial lawyer he actually was. “You should have told me, Ellie,” he chided teasingly. Told him what? Until a few ...
Coldly. Harshly. Disapprovingly. Typically! The warmth Joey had thought she’d seen as she looked up into the depths of Gideon’s gold-coloured eyes had to have been an illusion, she inwardly derided herself as she saw those eyes were now a deep and scathing brown. ‘What’s to explain?’ she dismisse...
Angelina told him anxiously. Not quite the response Alexander had been hoping for to his first attempt at a marriage proposal. His last, too, he hoped! “I assure you it is not nonsense, Angel,” he said gruffly, making no effort to stand. “It is perhaps a little soon in our acquaintance for you to...
It was an obvious indication that Mac was indeed known personally to the restaurateur; Jonas had dined here often enough in the past to know that Luciano only ever reserved the window tables for his best and most-liked customers. Mac was already seated at the table, and had been supplied with som...
Before Lissa. Somehow, he doubted it. He certainly didn’t remember it if he had. And he would have remembered this taste of bile in his mouth, the ache in his chest, and the burning need he felt to hit someone. To maim, possibly even to kill. The army had trained Gabriel to be a sniper, but all t...
It had been a long night, her thoughts going round and round. She had been wrong about the coffee—she had drunk the whole potful! The mug of coffee in her hand was from a fresh pot she had just made. She didn't know what had happened last night, had gone over and over it hi her mind a thousand ti...
He should have told his secretary he didn’t want to be disturbed for a couple of hours. After four months of careful planning, he was now on the brink of achieving his goal, and had been sitting behind his desk in his penthouse office overlooking the Thames, relishing that thought in peace and so...
There was something decidedly odd about both his horse and groom becoming ill at the same time, and she knew from the look she and Sin had exchanged a few minutes ago, he thought the same. She sincerely hoped that neither man nor beast were in serious ill health, but perhaps now Sin would at leas...
Neither was she any nearer finding out why Rand had changed his mind and agreed to let her be in the film. As soon as she had been well enough to venture out of the hotel after she had the flu, she had borrowed the Range Rover and driven over to the house to see Rand. The ...
Devlin.” Eva glared at him over the top of the steaming mug of coffee he had just made and poured for them both. “N. O. It spells no!” Finn had persuaded his unexpected visitor to at least take off her jacket, hat and gloves before joining him in the huge oak kitchen, kept...
Nicky blinked, having been held totally mesmerized by Lucien’s piercing eyes looking down so intently into her own. “Maybe I was just imagining it,” she dismissed, feeling a little foolish now for having mentioned it at all. Of course Lucien wouldn’t have had her followed; he wanted to go to bed ...
‘I found it like this when I came in just now.’ ‘Like this’ was with dozens upon dozens of books tumbled haphazardly from the shelves onto the floor, until hardly any of the carpet remained in view. Elizabeth had been dreading seeing Rogan again after the incident down in the cove earlier this mo...
“Not what you were expecting?” Lijah taunted as he watched Callie walk slowly about his house. Well, house was probably overstating it. Lijah had bought this old abandoned warehouse and turned it into an open-plan living space, except for the bedroom and a bathroom up a dozen stairs onto the floo...
I apologise for swearing, Grandmama.’ There was the sound of a heavy sigh. ‘But I am sure you will admit, it has been something of a trying day.’ ‘I realise that. And I am sure we are all anxious to know why Mrs Leighton fainted, but I really do feel it is best if I am the one to continue to sit ...
She was completely undeterred by his obvious lack of enthusiasm. ‘I was thinking of going for a walk, and wondered if you would care to join me?’ Jordan’s eyes narrowed as he sat back in the leather chair behind the desk. ‘I’m not sure if you’re being deliberately insensitive again, or just a pai...