Or, God, maybe this was just life. For everyone on the planet. Maybe the Survivor’s Club wasn’t something you “earned,” but simply what you were born into when you came out of your mother’s womb....

Too late Bella. Now, it’s too late. Show me.

Isaac Rothe, Matthias

Perfect!” Wrath bellowed. “And this is a doctor saying it — I mean, she went to medical school.”…”And Dr. Sam told me she’s delivered over fifteen thousand babies over the course of her career —...

I’m going to talk to her.””And how’s that going to go? You’re just going to walk up to her and say, ‘Hey, I know you’ve never seen me before, but I’m your dad. Oh, and...

I’m sorry,” he muttered. “If I… uh, hurt your feelings or something.” She glared at him. “I’m not hurt. I’m pissed off and sexually frustrated.” His head snapped back on his spine. Well… then. Okaaaaay.

You are a manipulator.I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.

Without time, you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity….Time is what gives life significance.

You’re getting into some kind of shape, cop.”Aw, come on, now.” Butch grinned. “Don’t let that shower we took go to your head.”Rhage fired a towel at the male. “Just pointing out your beer gut’s...

Every night. Every day…

When her blue-black eyes lifted to his, everything disappeared. Their bodies dematerialized. The room they were in ceased to exist. Time became nothing. And in the void, in the wormhold, Wrath’s chest opened up sure...

You could lose the ones you loved in the blink of an eye—and he was willing to bet, when it happened, you weren’t thinking about all the reasons that could have kept you apart. You...

You would have made a fine warrior, you know that?”I am one. Death is my enemy.”Yeah, it is, isn’t it.” God, it made such sense that he’d bonded with her. She was a fighter… like...

Just once” Blay said softly. “Do it just once. So I’ll know what it’s like.”Qhuinn started to shake his head. “No…I don’t think–””Yes”After a moment, Qhuinn slid both his hands up Blay’s thick neck and...

husband and my family and the better half of WriterDog. Prologue

Someone put opera on inside the house. Someone changed it to hip-hop, thank God. Someone started a shower. Someone vacuumed. Again.Life. In all its mundane majesty.And you couldn’t take advantage of it if you were...

Z: “You know, this was a hell of a lot easier when you were out cold in the back of that truck.”Phury: “That was you?”Z:”You think it was Santa Claus or some shit?

There was pain, and then there was PAIN. This was PAIN-Vishous

The place is also big enough. We could all live there without killing each other.” -Rhage”That depends more on your mouth than any floorplan.” -Phury

As Qhuinn looked at his best friend’s handsome face, he felt as if he’d never not known that red hair, those blue eyes, those lips, that jaw. And it was because of their long history...

Ride?” Rhage snorted. “Please. That thing is a sewing machine with an air dam taped to it. My GTO could dust the fucker in fourth gear from a dead stop.”When there was an odd sound...

Indeed, the human mind appeared to suffer from a crippling need to fabricate in the absence of concrete proof.

The necklace was a good excuse,” he murmured.”For what?””I thought maybe I could go to Charleston and show up at your front door to give this back and maybe… you might let me in. Or...

Bottom line? As much as youwanted someone to change and believed they could, they were in control of their life. Not you. And you could throw yourself against the wall of their choices until you...

After a moment, Wrath turned to John. “This is Lassiter, the fallen angel. One of the last times he was here on earth, there was a plague in central Europe-“”Okay, that was so not my...

I didn’t know it would be black,” she murmured with a little smile.Horror flooded his face. “Oh, Christ!

All around, grown men were getting out of cars and shoving at each other like fifteen-year-olds, the bunch of juiced-up, armchair quarterbacks ready to peanut-gallery it up: The closest they were going to get to...

Life. In all it’s mundane majesty.

Terrific. A bisexual dominant vampire with kidnapping expertise.

[…] [T]here was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you miraculously taken out of the distress pool.

God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.

Qhuinn’s eyes shifted away from his buddy–and just happened to measure the distance down to the stone patio below. Hmm . . . doing a swan dive onto all that slate might just get the...

They don’t fit you?” V asked his roommate. “Not the point. No offense, but these are wicked Village People.” Butch held his heavy arms out and turned in a circle, his bare chest catching the...

If sex were food, Rhage would haven been morbidly obese.

I would do anything for you. Anything.”With that, he pushed his way out…and as the door eased shut, she realized that I love you could indeed be said without actually uttering the phrase.Actions did mean...

Destiny was a machine built over time, each choice that you made in life adding another gear, another conveyor belt, another assemblyman. Where you ended up was the product that was spit out at the...

Love, he realized, was like the daggers he made in his forge: When you first got one it was shiny and new and the blade glinted bright in the light. Holding it against your palm,...

She silenced him with her mouth, then pulled back. “You can’t change what I think of you.”He reached up and brushed her lower lip with his thumb.”If you truly knew me, everything you believe would...

Listen, I don’t want things to get weird, okay.””Oh, yeah, no, weird is bad.””But just so you and I are clear, I really fucking want to kiss you right now.

Gallows humor is part of having a doctor in the house. Deal with it.

Whoa. Fangs. She had fangs.She leaned in, prodded them a little. Eating with those puppies was going to take some getting used to, she thought.On impulse, she brought up her hands, turned her fingers into...

That’s you,” Wrath said. You shall be called the Black Dagger warrior Dhestroyer, descended of Wrath son of Wrath.””But you’ll always be Butch to us,” Rhage cut in. “As well as hard-ass. Smart-ass. Royal pain...

Those eerie diamond eyes shifted over to her and she stilled, as if he’s willed her to do so.There was a moment of silence. And then in a rough voice the man whose life she...

Michael Rafferty was a goodman. A solid man. He was never going to be Hugh Jackman handsome or Bill Gates rich or King of England powerful. But he was hers and he was Sean’s and...

Gimme an S! A T! An O! A C! Followed by a K-H-O-L-M! What’s it spell? HEAD FUCK.- Jane

The front door swung open, and Zsadist strode into the house. Wrath glared. “Nice of you to show up, Z. Busy tonight with the females?””How about you get off my dick?

What is your name?” she murmured.He cocked an eyebrow at her and then went back to staring at his brother. “I’m the evil one, in case you haven’t figured it out.””I wanted your name, not...

I’ll lay my life down for you.With or Without that piece of paper

Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.

V had a passing thought that she used the word “anyway” like an eraser on a crowded chalkboard. She said it whenever she needed to clear off the things she’d just shared to make room...