She hasn't been ridden this week and that always makes her feisty." Katrina was content with old Tanya. While she enjoyed riding, she didn't enjoy having a fight on her hands. In the summer twilight they rode past the groves, up into the hills. "This country's so different than anything I'm us...
The high desert made it a dry heat, but hot was hot. When they reached the Carson Sink area, they’d finished all the bottled water despite the truck’s air-conditioning. “There’s hardly even any sagebrush out here,” Betty commented. Amy, looking at the bleak, arid landscape, thought she’d never se...
Scarlet and gold, gules and or, heart and lion, and he the stranger-in-blood who had no right to any of it. Not to his father's coat-of-arms, to the family motto, nor even to the name. Only the fire was his, hot and all-consuming, the flames ever reaching for him. If he stared into their shiftin...
Had she been seen? The dark figure seemed to draw her forward and she fought against the compulsion, her fingers tight about the amulet. She took a step backward, another, going away from the stairs until she could no longer see Melantha. Then she scrambled up the short incline to the top of the ...
After what Davis had tried to do to her in the ruins, she certainly couldn’t remain in his house any longer. Despite Meg's need for her, she’d leave in the morning. Elena slipped inside the front door as quietly as she could and crept up the front stairs, afraid a servant might see her if she us...
Closed in a tent on the side of a mountain during a storm. With her son asleep only a few feet away. Not that they'd done anything really improper, but she'd come close to getting swept away by her feelings. Bram's words about the rain rushing down the mountain trail in a ...