One-clicked this book for free on Amazon, and couldn't read it fast enough or devour the couple Dean and Olivia (Liv) quickly enough. Author Nina Lane has a gift in being able to bring the characters into your head and heart, make you KNOW them intimately. And what an awesome weaving of falling...
He hadn’t left a note or even made a pot of coffee, a fact for which I was inordinately grateful. I didn’t want any thoughtful little gestures. I just wanted some time to get my head together, and it was a relief to be left alone. I was sore, of course, the pulsing between...
my mother asks. Her question breaks me from my shock. “What… what are you doing here?” “I wanted to see you.” She stands, running her hands over her thighs. “It’s been a while.” “Yes, it has.” We look ...
Hot-chocolate booths sit on the edges of the lake, which resembles a child’s spinning toy with all the skaters gliding in circles. Allie has banned me from the café—a dictate I didn’t protest with much fervor since I’m inclined to stick close to home these days. I’m almost two weeks late. Accordi...
Dropping the trowel she had been using to plant a tray of fresh pansies, she approached him. He had been away from the plantation a great deal in the past few days, which had created a perpetual knot of anxiety within her soul. Although he was equally capable of issuing co...
As I’d expected, as I had known, he didn’t retreat. He was ever more determined to give me what I’d never had. And one late Saturday afternoon in mid-November, I knew. It was a moment of instinctive clarity, like sensing the exact time to plant a tulip bulb or pick a ripe apple.  ...
Burnished leaves flared from the trees and began to fall in a blazing carpet of yellow and red. A pleasant chill bit through the air. Classes continued, the rhythm of the semester settling into a soothing march. Being with Dean was so easy that my fear began to subside. If...
Pirates, monsters, evil aliens, robbers, comic-book villains. Most of the time we won the epic battles. Sometimes we didn’t. Sometimes Archer got sucked into the lava pit encroaching from an exploding volcano. Sometimes I fell into a swamp of hungry crocodiles, or we both ...
STONE? MR. STONE.” Luke jerked his attention away from staring out his office window. He turned in his chair, forcing himself to focus. Kate stood by his desk, holding a folder and watching him with a furrowed brow. “Are you all right, sir?” She put the folder on his desk. “Do you need anything?”...