The innkeeper had already looked at him with suspicion when he had arrived with an unconscious Juliana in his arms. ‘Too much gin,’ Guy had shrugged. The innkeeper, a florid man with small, darting eyes in a fleshy face, had huffed in disapproval but made no comment. It wa...
She was alone, having retreated upstairs to get some peace from the overpowering atmosphere of the bar, and also to escape from the intense eyes of the man she had seen go into the office. When their eyes had met earlier she had been unable to stop the immediate response of her body. His commandi...
His face appeared softer after their lovemaking, as if his mask had slipped a little and her touch had uncovered something of the man underneath. It was a bittersweet triumph for her; once morning came he would be the Rogue again, and lost to her. The thought brought with ...
But he sent no word, and Amelia found herself veering between feeling horribly embarrassed at their tryst and anger that he had rejected her—even if, as she admitted to herself, it was for honourable reasons. At night time, both anger and embarrassment faded away to be replaced by desire as she r...
The truth was, she had to admit to herself, that there was a nastiness in Raquel that really quite scared her, and what had seemed a wild theory now seemed more than fitting: that her old school friend was indeed capable of a gruesome act of violence. Although she tried to tell herself her questi...
The two police cars that turned up outside John’s house, sirens blazing, caught the attention of neighbours and passers-by more immediately than the stranger who had so casually walked down the drive, whistling merrily and tossing a lighter up into the air and catching it repeatedly as they made ...