Even if he wasn’t on duty, he shouldn’t have noticed her. Sure, she was attractive enough, in a compact, earth-mother type of way. Soft-brown hair, eyes the color of caramel, a hint of freckles on the tip of her small nose and a quick, coiled-spring energy to her movements. But she was the kind o...
Jets were being launched every few minutes to make up for the lockdown of the day before. For more than two days he hadn’t wanted to leave the ship, but this morning he couldn’t go soon enough. It was already dawn. They’d approached the major more than six hours ago. Every minute they delayed was...
He knew the routine in this building well enough to know there was no one else here at this time of night. And ever since he managed to lift a skeleton key from one of the cleaning crew, getting into the office was a snap. Not that he was going to tell the Brown witch. No,...
Lights twinkled through the rain from constellations of steel and glass that lit up the night. The traffic that splashed along the street in front of the hotel had grown sparse, but it would never cease completely. All around her were the sounds of technology: the low hum of the printer beside he...
It lacked the violence of the nightmare piece, both in subject matter and in technique. The brushstrokes were gentle, feathering one area into the next to give the impression of dreamy inevitability. The glass palette that lay on the table beside him was dotted with pools of sienna and cerulean b...
She could see it in the set of his jaw and the tightening at the corners of his mouth. She could feel it in the tension that radiated from his body as he walked beside her and in the way his eyes gleamed as he glanced toward the trees and then back at her. Or was this just...
Butter sizzled, a timer chimed and pots clanged in a familiar din that took her back to her childhood. While the kitchen had been expanded and upgraded over the years, the smells and sounds that filled it hadn’t changed. She’d grown up with them, and they never failed to steady her. “You’re a dar...
Emma raked stiff fingers through her hair and hooked the phone with her other hand, pacing as far as the side window as she tried to hold on to her patience. “No, Simon. The last time I let you borrow it, you left the tanks empty.”“I said I was sorry. Please, Emma. Plee—eease?”It was the same dra...
The blocks of C4 that were taped around her waist had been getting heavier with each minute that had passed. Or had it been hours? She had no way of knowing. The muscles in her shoulders were screaming and her hands were going numb from the handcuffs. Her body was trembling so badly, her legs wer...
Although visiting hours had ended long ago, Will had arranged with security to let them through. Hank’s tux and Amelia’s evening dress had raised few eyebrows at the nurses’ station—the maternity ward was well accustomed to come-as-you-are arrivals. Amelia eased open the door to her sister-in-law...