They were in for some rain. This whole thing had taken longer than Lucy thought. Galen had been alone for hours. What if he overdosed on Vicodin or something? She pushed her speed up to seventy all the way to the turnoff from Highway 37. Past the Quik Stop, she took the dirt road at more like twe...
He scanned the passersby. The streets of Rome were wide here. Channels cut at the stone edges carried the rainwater away toward the Tiber. Even at night the avenues were busy. Citizens and slaves, rich palanquins and poor men, all jostled one another. At one point a phalanx of soldiers marched pa...
They felt swollen. All of her felt swollen. She was in some kind of dim room. The walls were whitewashed, the shutters drawn against the heat of the day. They cast bars of horizontal light across the dirt floor. She was lying on a pallet of some kind. Her mouth felt like she had inhaled sand. An ...
She’d sleep the night through, of course. That was good. She needed sleep after her experience. At least Van Helsing would not come creeping up the stairs in the night. If he did, Stephan could send him to the right about. And Stephan was out of the way of the runner. He would enjoy reading and w...
Jane exclaimed. “Well, you just have to suck it in a little more, honey,” Trevor admonished. “We’ll sew you into this if it turns out it’s the one.” Giselle straightened. Chloe came over with a pair of suede platform sandals in delicate pink that ju...
Edwards and his men slowly quit firing and cast about with their guns. Could they not see the shadows now that the color had disappeared? His father’s eyes darted around, looking for an angle. He was going to try to go in after Keelan and Devin around the shadows. “I’m in,” Kemble yelled, to make...
He pushed down the currents swirling in his breast.Tomorrow he would propose the unthinkable. But just seeing Miss Rochewell tonight shook him. Her knowledge of his secrets had been disconcerting. What he had accepted on a ship in midocean seemed absurd in the middle of Lady Jersey’s great hall. ...
Henri was vampire. Anyone would call a vampire who sucked human blood a monster. Anyone sane. Henri wanted to frighten her with the name for what he was. Yet she still believed what she had told the voice. It was by one’s actions that man and monster were measured. And by that scale, Henri was a ...
She was not what he expected. “How can a poor merchant express his present honor, my lady?”The woman with the kohl around her eyes was probably the most beautiful creature he had ever seen, including Lady Lente. Even in the large receiving room of the Emperor Bonaparte, among the flower of the Fr...
It was ten a.m. and he’d already been drinking for an hour. The bar was a dark and seedy joint called ‘Pat’s Place’ down the street from his flop. There were two other denizens on the same mission as Lan. He could just leave for parts unknown and get past all this crap once and for all. So why di...
Davie watched the light die from the third-story window of the room he had taken. Fear thumped in his chest. The night belonged to them. How would he find Rufford in this teeming city? He lit a small oil lamp against the coming twilight. The Admiral had given Davie his fastest cutter. Supplies we...
He stacked some of the milk buckets to make room. Several lamps flickered, bathing the laboratory in bright, golden light. Her father paced among his bubbling beakers, making last-minute preparations. Kilkenny stood, stone-faced, hands clenched. Only Clara had not bothered to attend the spectacle...
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Maggie turned over. Just a minute more. She’d promised herself an hour of sleep before she started loading horses. The bed was so comfortable, the twittering of birds through the open windows soothing. Okay, she couldn’t deny she was awake. But she could indulge herself in r...