The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body.

For shit’s sake, it wasn’t like there was a twelve-step for being the Scribe Virgin’s kid:Hi, I’m Vishous. I’m her son and I’ve been her son for three hundred years.HI, VISHOUS.She’s done a head job...

Hey, even pencils can get the job done—I’ve heard the moaning from your room to prove it.

What do you mean?”You don’t ask me to go inside because it’s cold. You just want to make it easier for me to be where I want to stand.

the only one who wanted to be free. Surprise, surprise. CHAPTER

Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge.

I love you.”Z squeezed his eyes shut. “Don’t be a tragedy, Bella.

I ejaculated about ten minutes ago and the stuff was black. So everything is not normal.”Silence greeted that happy little announcement. Man, if he had hauled off and sucker-punched V, he would have gotten less...

And for all he had learned to bandage himself up on the outside, the wound remained just as bad and deep as the moment it had been made – when it became obvious that the...

Ah, hell.His peripheral vision was working far too well tonight.His slut of a cousin, his cocksucking, suit-wearing, Montblanc-up-the-ass cousin Saxton the Magnificent, was standing next to the queen, looking like a combination of Cary Grant...

You are the sweetest thug I’ve ever known.

We’re going to need a shitload of steel,” the human muttered.

In the silence, she felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was no way to comfort the lost boy he’d been back then. But she had the...

A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.

Being with Mary was different because…he wasn’t the only one who wanted to make love to her.The beast wanted her, too. The beast wanted out so it could take her.

Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not?

As the Brotherhood got down to business, he found himself putting his hand on the dog’s big head and stroking the soft fur…playing with an ear…dipping down and finding the long waves that flowed from...

Thought you might like some wake-up.” Bingo,

I was dead unit you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came…and I was awakened.

You so need to lighten up about that potato-launcher incident,” Butch said.Phury rolled his eyes and eased back in the banquette. “You broke my window.””Of course we did. V and I were aiming for it.””Twice.””Thus...

God, now she knew what decent men felt like, the disquiet before taking someone for their first time.

The heavy soul will not pass though the body is failing.

I was dead until you found me, though I breathed. I was sightless, though I could see. And then you came…and I was awakened.

Tell you what, you let me go, and I’ll ask you plenty of questions about your race. Until then, I’m slightly distracted with how this little vacation on the good ship Holy Sh*t is going...

Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.

One thing, though,” Qhuinn murmured.”What?”The voice that came out his throat was unlike anything he’d ever heard from himself before. “If any guy breaks your heart or treats you like shit, I will bust him...

As she shuffled back, he glanced down at the tent between his legs. Christ, that goddamn thing in there was huge; he looked like he had another arm in his pants.

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...