10 Downing Street. He had just moments earlier successfully concluded his most important mission of the day: seeing the last of his dozen children off to bed. They’d been lined up like proper little soldiers, to bow or curtsy before him, and to smile as he kissed them each...
— Dizzy Dean, pitcher “I don’t think James liked you,” Suzanna said as Tim shoved the key card in the door of their suite ninety minutes later. “Who?” “James, Tim. The guy who sold you this rock I didn’t ask for but am very happy to be wearing.” “Oh, you mean Jim. I didn’t notice,” he said,...
Her days were filled with drives and visits with old friends and shopping for the most lovely clothing in the world and drifting from room to room in the Portman Square mansion to sit and admire Jules Fordham’s brilliance. Her evenings were a delicious whirl of parties and balls and trips to the ...
She couldn’t remember ever seeing so much snow, or ever being happier to see it. The elements had trapped her inside the confines of Hawk’s Roost, surrounded by a world turned white, and there was no place on the entire earth she’d rather be, because Vincent Mayhew was locked up here as well. She...
To say the most, it was seven days and nights so chock-full of bustle from dawn to nearly dawn again that it was no wonder that events and places and things were concentrated upon almost without exception, leaving the various souls of Glynde mansion little free time in which to think about anythi...
"And what," the dowager demanded in a deep voice that set the Sevres vase on the mantelpiece to jiggling, "is that?" Whilst Aunt Loretta was performing her only party trick, Samantha had taken the time to rise and face the dowager, doing a quick inventory of her ladyship at the same time. Egad, s...
Gilly, weighing the plus of having one of her husband's prime horses under her against the minus of being forced into that same husband's company, decided to take him up on it. Kevin chose to dispense with the services of the small, bandy-legged Willie, who usually companioned him whenever he rod...
That man was still a trifle dazed after being half bullied and half cajoled into seeing the error of his subordinate’s actions in mistaking a Marquess for a common housebreaker. And not just any Marquess, oh no, but the beloved scion of one of the most powerful families in the land (not to mentio...