When I started this book, I wasn't expecting to like it as much as I did Red. However, the romance, characters, and plot of this book really drew me in. And I have to say that this was just as good as Red, and maybe even a bit better. Lavender was a great heroine. She had a really sad backstory, ...
I was sitting on the little stone bench in my parents’ garden, my black patent leather shoes gleaming, my pale blue pinafore pristine and crisp. I was swinging my feet and humming cheerily while eating my breakfast—porridge, not the curds and whey mentioned in my nursery rhyme—when a particularly...
“Still no answer,” I told Nate. “He’s probably still sleeping off the most recent midnight snack.” “We’ll try again later,” Nate told me. “With Vlad being one of the walking dead, I can play hardball if I have to. No worries.” I nodded, wondering what exactly it meant when Death decided to play n...
Even when he had been out cold, he could feel her looking at him. It made him uncomfortable—mostly because he hated what she must’ve been thinking of him. He hadn’t intended to make reference to his past when they were talking. It was better for everyone if that stayed buried. But it was almost l...
She’d talked to Gabe nearly every day during the week since their dinner at his house, just a few minutes here and there to check in on him, see if he’d had any other problems with Monroe she might be able to work with. But it’d been quiet. For him anyway. Even though she’...
“Marry me.” She rose from the bed we shared and wandered a few steps away, the moonlight casting a pale glow upon her fair skin. “Why would you ruin what we have by asking me that?” I raised up on my elbow, frowning. “How’m I ruinin’ it? I want you to be mine forever. Do y’not want the same, ...
Humility had never really been his thing, and having to apologize to those he’d pissed off when the offense was still so recent, so raw, made his gut churn with disgust. But by the time he’d showered, dressed, and thrown together a few days’ worth of clothes, he knew he di...
“They’ve no doubt doubled the protection along the wall since the last time I was here,” she murmured. “Do you sense anything that would keep me out, Gideon?” To my surprise, the protection spell to guard against those who would harm the king and his family had not been altered since my departure...