The forty-five-minute air shuttle from Rio de Janeiro had been well worth it. She checked the travel brochure she held in her hand for what would be her next stop, and decided she needed to get something to eat first. She had skipped breakfast to catch an early flight out of Rio. She knew from th...
It had been bad enough when she’d tried ignoring her attraction to D’marcus. Bad enough, when her sisters accused her of having a crush on him, and she had denied their allegations with a passion. But now, after the kiss they’d shared on the beach, she had to admit a few things to herself. What s...
Kendal Fischer’s heart almost stopped beating as she paused from putting away the groceries to glance down at the round, pixie, cute-as-a-button face looking back at her. At that moment, Carr looked so much like Conley it was uncanny. There were those dark brown eyes and long, full lashes and her...
Victor Junior said in a cold voice to the others standing around him when Rae’jean and Grady entered the banquet room. “He’s about to get a taste of what it feels like to be in the minority. And I can’t wait to see his reaction at church tomorrow when Aunt Sadie starts jumping a pew or two when t...
Oh, it wasn’t that he and Austin weren’t getting along, because they were. In fact, in her opinion, they were getting along too nicely. It seemed they had totally forgotten her very existence. What really bothered her was the fact that the man she rarely got along with was getting along perfectly...
And then he couldn’t omit the stone fireplace, the first he’d ever seen placed in a bathroom where you could soak away a day’s worth of stress while enjoying the view of a blazing flame. The house contained four other bathrooms and they were just as elegant. The walls behind the bathtubs displaye...
However, it could have been topped with vanilla ice cream and garnished with glazed walnuts and Mackenzie would still have had a hard time forcing it down her throat. She had a feeling about what Luke was going to say, and at the moment she didn’t want to hear it. Just as well, since it seemed he...
The first thought that went through her mind was that she hadn’t heard him correctly, but then all she had to do was look into the darkness of his eyes to see she hadn’t imagined anything. He had asked to kiss her. He had asked… The next thought that immediately ran through her head was that Wayn...
Forget about the fact that less than ten minutes ago he’d made plans to leave on his own anyway, it was the principle of the thing. And the principle, according to the book of Eli, was that he always decided when he left a woman’s place. No female had ever suggested it was time for him to go. Usu...
“Happy New Year to you, too, Thorn.” Corey Westmoreland couldn’t help the smile that touched each corner of his lips. At fifty-four he’d never married and didn’t have any offspring. But thanks to his older brothers James and John and their wives, Sarah and Elizabeth, he was blessed with eleven ne...