If this were a different time, a different place, I would take you to bed with me and make love to you for days,” he said, his voice slow and deep and intent. “I would...

And she swung the old oar at him with all her strength.It hit with a great thwack, splintering in two, and he went over the side, into the dark, cold waters of the lake, sinking...

You know as well as I do, damn you. Like it or not I seem to have grown a heart. I have absolutely no use for the damned thing, but there it sits, demanding Elinor....

And what if you’re trying to knock out another man,” she said, sarcastic. There was no expression in his cool blue eyes. “Then I kiss him,” he said in the calmest of voices. “Now you...

If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats.

people notice the most beautiful dress every person can wear,……… a “smile

She heard the zip of his pants, and expected him to step away from her, leave her alone in the bathroom to pull herself together. Instead, his hands were very gentle as he moved her...

To her surprise, Jilly appeared to have handed over the telephone and a momentlater Taka ended the call. No, maybe it shouldn’t surprise her. Jilly would have resisted bullying, but Taka’s calm control was very…seductive.

I lied. I do that, you know, when it suits me. I would have thought you’d realized that by now.

After all, if spinster chaperons required their own spinster chaperons there simply wouldn’t be enough to go around.