But after she'd returned from Keeva's tour, he'd been sprawled across the bed, ... whose tips were dusted with frost as wispy as powdered sugar.
She had felt unwell today—she'd striven to disguise it from him, ... would his spirit not die bit by bit, like a flower touched by the frost?
... True could glimpse widely flung stars, and the air stung with frost. ... No doubt Pith had it right—all the times he'd called to her and received an ...
... for he'd drifted through the dark streets of this city, streets all limed in hard frost, the way an elusive tune twines through a memory.
One selfless act as a teen unfairly caused Sirena Seafair to forfeit her ability to shift into a mermaid.
Ryan turned to the petite woman beside him. “This is my wife, Una.” Ryan was the opposite of his elfin wife. He was chunky, with no neck and a chin that sagged right into his shirt collar. She was decked out in running clothes that ...
After being abandoned by a lover, Deborah McMillan no longer believes in happily ever afters.
Kirby left his chair to chat up diners at a booth across the aisle, and Jane continued to scan the room herself. Her attention was drawn to the waiters who appeared from the door to the kitchen, carrying dinner plates, hot and steaming ...
In spite of a broken heart, Allison Delaney carved out a life for herself and her young daughter on her grandparents' farm.
Professor Coolidge rolled his eyes. “Professor, how would a midwife cross paths with Mary Kelly if she was in bed for the night?” Hayden asked. “Say whatever crosses your mind. No filter.” Coolidge pursed his ample lips and raised an ...
“Zachary McHugh.” “And he knows who Simon Waite is. How?” “They work the docks,” Smithson said, and Jack reflexively grabbed his biceps for a squeeze. “I don't think you know what this means. You were wrong about Jefferson.
Scottish chief's daughter Tinnie MacAieth can think of only one way to ransom her clan's folk, defeated by the fierce Viking, Claus — agree to his demand that she become his bride.
“People collect and trade photographs of famous people like Queen Victoria, Prince Edward, and General Scott.” “I'm not famous.” “Instead of officers, some men like collecting the photographs of beautiful women.
After Sarah Madison’s husband was killed and she lost her unborn child, she believed she’d never find love and happiness again.
When computer program designer Zoraya “Zoe” Lombardo wakes up next to her business partner’s dead body with a gun in her hand and no memory of what happened, the first thing she does is run.
Former professional football player and coach Duncan "Hatch" Hatcher fumbled his career and marriage.
But Jessie can't afford to be soft. Or allow herself to fall for a cowboy who's never in one town longer than it takes to ride a bull.
At Rawhide, the very exclusive dungeon where only those with connections gather to indulge their sexual fantasies, a new twist has been added—a deck of cards.
Computer programmer Risa Channing craves a man who can take her to levels she’s never reached. Dark, erotic, demanding, the Night Wrangler promises that and more with his seductive eyes and hard muscles.
Just when architect Lindsey Ferrell thinks she's gotten her life back on track, the terrible nightmares return, and out of nowhere, a stalker sends a note to her office.