Miranda poked at the remains of her baked potato, scooping out one last buttery morsel. She popped it in her mouth. “Well, you wouldn’t, would you? The whole idea of extortion is to pay for the blackmailer’s silence. You done?” John reached across the kitchen table for her...
He wanted her more than anything he’d ever wanted his whole life, a realization that scared the hell out of him even as it drove him to walk her backward until they ran up against the cabin wall. She made a low, explosive sound against his mouth as her back flattened again...
The look she shot him as they walked out to their cars was as frigid as the morgue. "This wasn't some conspiracy to keep you in the dark," he began. Her head snapped around so quickly that her bob of dark hair swept into her eyes, making her grimace...
He didn’t know where he was or why his head was pounding with agony.The light moved out of his eyes and he saw he was on a pier, surrounded by yachts in their slips and a handful of bystanders watching with curiosity as a Terrebonne Harbor Patrol officer shined a flashlight at him. Hazy memories ...
She was not a widowed immigrant from Kaziristan, though over the past few months she had almost convinced herself she was. But burrowed into the solid strength of Connor McGinnis’s arms, breathing in his familiar scent, hearing the steadying beat of his heart beneath her e...
He tried to keep his hold on her, tried to bite back the cry that tore from his throat as she slammed her elbow back into his side again. “Delilah, stop.” Adam Brand stumbled backward, struggling to keep his feet as his body instinctively sought relief from her lethal limb...
You got all of this put together in the short time you worked at the hotel?”Hunter looked up from the spread of papers and maps on the kitchen table and found Susannah looking at him through narrowed eyes, as if she was already regretting her decision to play this thing his way. But somewhere in ...
She didn’t tremble or cry or do anything that Dalton Hale was clearly bracing himself to deal with as he lowered the boom. But inside she died a little, another tiny piece of herself ripping away to join the other little scraps of soul shrapnel that had come unmoored durin...
I figured he was somewhere down a hole in the mountains where nobody but the bears would find him.” McKenna Rigsby looked up at Nick Darcy, carrying out a whole silent conversation in that one glance. Olivia had been tangentially involved in the ruse Rigsby and Darcy had s...
There were broken twigs, crushed leaves, all indicators that someone had been through on foot without worrying about leaving signs. The problem was, there were almost too many trails to follow, going off one way or another, and following each of them, she ended up losing t...
On some level, Dana knew that fact meant something important, that she wasn’t thinking straight. But the truth was, she wasn’t thinking much at all, only feeling. And what she felt was an almost palpable relief, as if this moment in time, with Nix’s mouth moving relentlessly over hers, was someth...
Ivy saw a ripple of guilt pass over his face before he shuttered his expression. At the same time, he seemed genuinely surprised to see her here. “I came to look up an old friend,” he answered, his voice carefully void of inflection. “Yeah? What old...
The second kiss, however, served as a shattering reminder that for all his moments of gentleness, he possessed a core of hard, polished steel, powerful and unyielding.She had no conscious memory of moving, but suddenly the rough brick of the building behind her was digging into her back, the tact...
Impulsive. Completely out of control. All the things she’d struggled with her whole life, that wild hare scampering inside her soul, yearning for wide-open spaces and spectacular adventures. Her mother had warned her early about letting her feral side take control. Wild ha...