Holy typos, batman!Okay, I think this is gonna become a pet peeve of mine: tell not show. This is a kid, this kid is adorable. This is a woman, this woman is compassionate. They're telling me how to feel about a character. Why do creators do this? I just watched Maleficent today too, and that...
She was a firecracker, that one. Claremont County’s own Princess Liza Wright. In the two months since he’d permanently become a citizen of the county, he’d heard stories from his friends about her and her family. The county, a blink between Lowndes and Tallahassee, was almost nonexistent. It wasn...
Tomorrow he needed to stop by the courthouse to drop off some papers. As a family and property lawyer in Claremont County, he didn't get many grand cases, but they were usually time-consuming. Getting married was easy. However, once people added in money and children, things got complicated fast....
I grabbed the woman, now my ex-friend, by the hair and slapped her hard across the face twice. Lenzy swung her hands up trying to protect her face as she screamed. “Katherine…this is not what—” Straddling the woman’s squirming body, I smacked her again for the lie she was about to tell. Why was i...
Last night had been wild, amazing and more emotional than she’d planned for. A night that was supposed to be filled with romance and sex had turned out to be something incredible. Closing the door, her mind played back on everything from the moment Trenton arrived at her house with the sing...
Always a loner, even in a secret military task force, she now looks forward to getting lost among the tourist of a small town resort area. No more violence or killing that is her new motto. The day a stranger walks into her place of work and mistakes her for someone else, everything changes. She’...
“Where the hell have you been, Jo’el? I’ve been worried. I even went by your place but you weren’t there. I was going to call the police today because it had been twenty-four hours.” Always the mother hen. However, she had to give her sister some slack because Jo’el had ne...
“Okay, everyone. We all need to be very quiet. Chase should be home in minutes.” Kalan, my best friend, was smiling broadly as she stared at the faces of Chase’s friends and their family, Kalan’s family as well. Kalan and Chase were first cousins. All of us were gathered at the park across the ...
She stared out into the clear water, watching it ripple as it passed them. What was she going to do? She’d been mulling that question over and over in her head since she had left the church. She knew there wasn’t any way she was moving back to Charlotte; she would have to collect her ...
In a little over an hour, the morning flight would leave from Cat Island to Nassau. Glancing away from the spacious window, her gaze rested on the mysterious man. Roberto Sanchez. His features were relaxed and peaceful as he lay on his side under the covers. She wanted to touch him. To reach her ...
The night had finally began to wind down. Three hours of grilling questions from everyone in the damn county and three hours of her tap dancing around the truth. She’d been home now for four days and still hadn’t opened up to her parents about what was going on with her. She was being...
She sighed as she spotted Mr. Brown, marching toward her as he dragged his son by the arm. Glancing from Jaquan who kept his head down as he tripped along beside his father’s hasty steps, she met the short, fat, black man’s gaze. “Hello, Mr. Brown. What c...
Leaning in, he began to kiss her. Not one of those teasing kisses that played on the outside of her lips. No, he claimed her mouth, driving his tongue inside as if he couldn’t bear another moment without tasting her. She loved it.Anton caressed her body as he divested her of her clothing, leaving...
His father, the first to spot him, scowled.“Seeing if your pleasant disposition has changed,” he replied to his father, never taking his gaze off the woman beside the bed.He watched Zoey as she quickly grabbed the sheet at his dad’s feet and snapped it over his lower half, giving her patient priv...
Meeting her at the curb, Neal allowed his eyes to roam her from the top of her perfectly coiffed hair, swept up off her shoulders to the natural colored paint on her toes. His imagination of how the dress would look on her when he’d purchased it was nothing compared to the reality of seeing her s...
Greta tossed the ball to Theo, the quarterback on her team. It was a Saturday afternoon and a group of them had gotten together for a game. “I’ve seen it played on TV and maybe passed a game or two during the summer of children leagues but I guess you have to have friends to be invited to play.” ...
“I could make you come in one session of spanking.” Who is the man talking to? I turned my head to the side and stared into the sexiest, most intense hazel eyes I’d ever seen. Hazel eyes, short light-brown hair with enough gray at his temples and wisdom in his eyes to make me think of Robert Re...
Brad looked around the large glass case dived between various sandwiches, soups, salads and sweets. “One Turkey on wheat.” “Anything else, sir?” The guy behind the counter asked as he rang in each item. “Whatever my brother is getting.” Brad stepped to the side while Brian scanned the board and m...
Sitting in the restaurant awaiting her arrival, she was now ten minutes late for their dinner appointment, he allowed his mind to fixate on her face again. Since the day he was in her shop, the hazel-eyed beauty, with dark brown hair had driven him to distractions. Normally, since he was around b...
Stretching, she took a moment to remember being wrapped in Jason’s arms all night and how much she had enjoyed it. She got up from the bed, deciding not to analyze what it all meant to the relationship. She was going to take it day by day and leave the worrying for later. The intact family settin...
“I don’t know, Aunt Renee, how handsome is he?” I didn’t even look in the direction my aunt indicated. Travis Huffman, my older brother’s best man, a.k.a his best friend, had been a thorn in my side since middle school. I had my eyes set on Patrick Rockell. A sexy doctor and groomsman number thre...