Daring To LoveLady Lydia Bedford-Browne's small rebellion becomes the adventure of her life, when her coach crashes and leaves her stranded on the treacherous Dartmoor with the only other passenger: a rugged, disarmingly attractive Texan named Sam Cody. Sam's slow, melodic drawl and dark, hypnoti...
Stuart Aysgarth, the new Viscount Mount Villiars, doesn't know he's playing with fire when he inadvertently runs afoul of Emma Hotchkiss. True, the exquisite Yorkshire lady is a mere sheep farmer, but she also guards a most colorful past that makes her only more appealing to the handsome, haunted...
As Coco descended into its small whitewashed brick room, she was immediately immersed in a congestion of undergraduates. They jostled her as they came up the steps, taking away tea and ploughboys—bread baked around hard-boiled eggs. They blocked her way in a bottleneck at the front counter where ...
Rosalyn came in, closed the door, then sank back against it as if to shut out the fact that her husband was somewhere about. “Thank you very much,” Graham said. He swirled around the last of a brandy he was holding in his hand. “What a delightful surprise.” “I couldn’t help it, Gray.” As if this ...
Its furnishings were simple—wood tables and chairs, the walls covered with ale signs, certificates of inspection, a dart board, all proudly displayed along with a large photograph of the Queen and a smaller one of the Prince of Wales. The public house's wood floors hadn't seen wax in a very long ...
Herman Melville Moby Dick, Chapter 20 1851 Of the nearly six hundred first-class passengers, roughly four dozen made it to dinner. Even Mary stayed in her room. Besides an elderly aunt down the table, Louise knew only one other person. Pia Montebello. who herself didn't arrive till the cheese and...