Yes, yes. My eyes are like the sea or the sky or some such nonsense,” she quipped with a laugh, the lilting sound like the finest music, better than anything he could ever play.

He’d do what was best for her. He’d take her to safety and send her back home to a bright future…with a more honorable man than him. The stick broke in his hand, and he...

The only woman who would wear a gown like this one, love, is one who knows the power she wields and isn’t afraid to use it.

Charity followed the pirate. To salvation or to hell, she would soon find out.

Whether David believed in her affliction or not didn’t change the fact that it existed, and some day it would catch up with her.

He had an overwhelming urge to take possession of her lips, silencing any mention of another man’s name.

You are an exceedingly beautiful mystery, one that intrigues me and one that I plan to solve.

Sometimes people do misguided things for the most honorable of reasons.

James Lamont. It’s my name. You’ll need it if you’re to curse me properly.