Forty-five backbreaking minutes in the sweltering sun and he still hadn’t figured out why the worthless piece of junk kept stalling out.Yeah, right. Who was he kidding? The Raintrees could barely afford a new wheelbarrow much less a new tractor.Climbing onto the front wheel, he leaned down and po...
“Dear Daphne,” he wrote. “I’m in the Montana Territory . . .”He crumpled that page and began again: “Dear Daphne, you will never guess where I am.” Oh, and by the way, I’m already married . . . it was a joke, you see.Gideon took yet another fresh sheet of paper and scrawled, “Dear Daphne, I may n...
Despite Lucas’s constant reassurances, she was desperately worried about Duncan. Charles Town Harbor was splashed with sunlight and crowded with British warships on the morning of their arrival. There were also American clippers, obviously confiscated, with their sails folded and redcoats patroll...
They were strangers, and yet, conversely, she felt she knew and understood them, in a general way at least.When she awakened, with a violent jerk, the scenes and the actors who had played them out vanished into the part of her brain where unremembered things were hidden. Her breathing was rapid a...
He had no choice but to hunt. He rose slowly and stretched, this last being an unnecessary habit lingering from his days as a mortal. Aidan’s muscles had long since atrophied to a stonelike condition beneath his skin. Even that was changed, he thought, extending his arms a...
Genoa said to Bonnie, as she handed up another Chinese lantern to be hung from one of the many wires crisscrossing her side yard. Bonnie affixed the bright orange lantern in its proper place and smiled wryly as she got down from her stepstool and moved it ahead a few feet. Genoa had put all her g...
They were in the common room of an elite boy’s school, she soon realized, tucked away in the quiet of the English countryside. One of the instructors, recently human but now a walking corpse, with bluish-gray skin and protruding eyes, came snarling from the shadows.Flanking him were two smaller v...