Wind picked up blowing leaves in circles over the drive. Callie tried to stop her hands from trembling, but it was a lost cause. Too many resurfaced memories. Ellis assisted her to step free of the chaise and handed the reins to the stableman before offering his hand. It w...
Jewel leaned against the hot metal wall and popped the cap off the glass Coke bottle with the bent metal edge of the siding. She handed him the black and white prints of Veronica Lake in a small paper bag. He took the photos out and then slid them back in the bag. “Thanks....
Her legs trembled beneath her as she grabbed Devan’s bare shoulders to keep herself from pitching forward. Her orgasm was shooting electrical shock waves through her as she realized his finger was still inside her. The feeling made her dizzy, his touch made her hypersensit...
Stella had a lot more brains, but not a better attitude. She was blond and beautiful. It should have been enough, but when she told him she’d blown off her mother’s seventieth birthday party for their date, he was shocked. “My sisters will take care of her. Do I look like ...
Now he’s returned from the war. The war that left him near death and forced to walk with a cane. When Callie nearly sacrifices her safety to save one of Ellis’s new carriage horses from being shot by a stable hand, Ellis sees a change in Callie. She is not the spoiled, rich girl he knew. &n...
He wasn’t sure why— the hands never moved. Time seemed to flow everywhere except inside the portal where the bookstore stood. Here, time felt suspended. To protect the writing desk, he sat with his boots perched on the leather blotter and sighed as he bounced a rubber band...
Its lacy white edges curled around the warm boughs like melting fingers, dripping down the pin-point needles and falling unceremoniously to the frozen grass of the cemetery. The grass crunched under her feet as she made her way to the familiar marble headstone with the bir...