I’m infatuated with you, I cannot deny it. Physically speaking, you’re a very attractive man. But I don’t like you, the vast majority of the time. So far as I can gather, you behave abominably...

Truly? That whole determined, dangerous saunter across the room was for me? In that case, would you mind going back and doing it all over again? Slowly this time, and with feeling.

He had no secrets left. No defenses. He had nothing, except that same vast, dark, empty, infinite ache that had resided in him for as long as he could remember. An endless flight of stairs,...

I’m not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel.””Why not? Because I’m a woman?””No, because I’ve seen the way you spinsters handle a pistol. You’d shoot me dead where I stood.

Of course one kiss changes things. If it’s done right, a kiss changes everything.

He lay on the bed, freshly shaven and washed, legs crossed at the ankles and arms propped behind his head. His posture said, Yes, ladies. I truly am this handsome. And I don’t even have...

Clearly the sight of a well-muscled forearm incited a woman to utter depravity. How else to explain the invention of cuffs?

Izzy was utterly convinced. Never mind Arabian horses, African cheetahs. No creature in the world could bolt so quickly as a rake confronted with the word “marriage”. They ought to shout it out at footraces...

There’s a very generous donation in the parish’s future if you make this fast. Ten minutes, at the most.”Frowning, the man fumbled open his liturgy. “There’s an established rite, Your Grace. Marriage must be entered...

This explains so much,” she said, clucking her tongue in mother-hen fashion. “You’re compensating for this withered appendage.”Withered appendage? What the devil was she talking about? He shook his head, trying to clear it. Colin’s...