Under better circumstances Dimitri would have done things differently, much differently. He certainly wouldn’t have allowed Vlad to man-handle her like he had. But Dimitri had wanted to see Lady Amelia fight, or rather see if she would fight. He’d also hoped the shock and stress of being taken so...
Nothing had ever sounded so wonderful or so comforting to Dallas’s ears. She’d never belonged with anyone. Not really. While her friends all had families and parents, she’d been raised within the sanitized halls of St. John’s Children’s Home and had learned at an early age to depend on no one. Sh...
He’d seen right away that this opportunity was one of those once-in-a-lifetime-life-changing-events. And it was heading toward him like a freight train. Well, perhaps it wouldn’t be life-changing, but tonight had certainly promised to be one crazy night, the kind of night ...
Jake, the owner of The Oblique Café pushed a cup of piping hot chocolate into Faith’s hands. If not for his tight grip on her shoulders, Horace guessed Faith would have bolted out the door and had run halfway back to campus by now. He could feel her muscles trembling underneath his fingers. No ma...
Nothing was amiss, she assured herself. Just because Lauretta was absent from the ballroom and Charlie, also unaccounted for, had stalked away from her earlier in a thundering rage shouldn’t mean that she needed to disintegrate into a leaky watering pot while stranded in the middle of the dance f...
Apparently all his efforts to win Elsbeth’s heart had completely failed. She seemed more willing to protect a murderer’s identity than to preserve her own husband’s life. Nigel let her hand slip from his fingers. He spoke not a word. He simply rose and walked out of the room. He needed to get awa...
She’d refused the ring and left Butch out in the cold. “I’ll think about it,” she’d said. There was a dusty bottle of whiskey somewhere in the back of a cabinet. She dug around for it until her fingers curled around the bottle’s neck. Poisoning her body with alcohol was a rare occurrence. She had...