Pride filled him. He’d put that soft look in her eye, the purr in her voice, and given her loose limbed ease.

N matter how stressed Claire became, the tropical trees and exotic island flowers decorating the lobby always managed to take her breath away and put her mind at ease. Nature had always been a good...

There are moments in your life that can change you forever, and you Norah, you are my forever moment.

The nearest arched window poured its soft light over him, allowing me to seeevery inch. Dressed smartly in black loafers and slacks, he wore a thigh-length, blackcoat. He’d brushed his golden hair back, tucked behind...

Porque el cielo siempre es bonito. Incluso cuando está nublado y llueve, es maravilloso mirar al cielo. Es mi cosa preferida porque sé que si alguna vez me pierdo o estoy asustado, solo tengo que...

Didn’t you read the invitation? There’s going to be a game in a little while–the big Twister game in an hour. Make sure you eat plenty of bread.

Well, the gondola operator—whose name was ‘Happy,’ I might add—failed to inform me that about sixty seconds into the trip, the floor under the section of car I was standing on was going to slide...

Once the principals in their party are seated, with those lower on the totem pole left to grumble and move on to find another table, our once-cozy booth transforms into a damp fusion of vacuous...

You need something more from me—something I wasn’t able to give you before.

You’re going to owe me for this one, I think.

Mind-blowing sex?” I couldn’t believe I’d asked, but how could I not? It was like dangling a giant slice of chocolate cake in front of a hungry person on a diet and telling them not...

Every second around this girl was asking for trouble and he’d never wanted to be in trouble so bad in his life.

Love is like air, babe. It’s there all the time, and you don’t even think about it,or you take it for granted. Then all of a sudden, you need it, or you can’t breathe. You...

Outside, the sunlight had turned pale lemon, but the studio remained cool. The white walls and white-tiled splashback behind the sink were made more clinical by the metal tables which looked as if they’d originally...

Yes, quite.

Xavier had thought he was in paradise before. He’d been wrong. Sophia was more than paradise. She was the very reason he breathed.

Though in fairness, before tonight she wouldn’t have known exactly how to classify them. Sorta childhood friends through her brother, turned business rivals who had absolutely incendiary chemistry when they let it loose, which was...

—Sí, pero solo eso. Cada caricia, cada beso, cada momento compartido por los dos, preciosa…, nada de eso fue fingido. No quería fingir contigo. Quería que cada experiencia contigo, cada momento, fuese absolutamente real. Eres...

Because she did love him, and not from afar, not with the moony dreaminess she’d used as a crutch for so many years, but with a deep, aching tenderness she felt might just kill her.

Dempseys are never in trouble. We just have stretches of life that are more interesting than others.

I have a bra on,” I said helpfully.”I noticed. Might I remove that, too?””Gunner,” I said sternly, or as sternly as a person could while she stood in a man’s castle, her hands full of...

Now why do I feel like Little Red Riding Hood?” Daisy asked.Trav flashed a toothy smile and lunged for her neck. She squealed and squirmed, but he held on and chomped gently down her neck.She...

If a man can’t love you for who you are, he’s not worth The Dior Gloss.

Que difícil era saber lo que era real y lo que no

You shouldn’t touch a man like that in the morning,’’ he rasped, his hand hiding his crotch.

I’ve always seen you, angel. From the moment you found me, I’ve seen nothing but you.

It just makes me realize how . . . fleeting life can be. How quickly it all passes by. And it’s strange to read something written by someone whose life was really just beginning then...

Goldilocks in the flesh. He zoned out for a second, lost in the smooth texture of her skin, so he had zero time to react when the bikini top flying through the air hit him...

He took in the bubbles covering her and smiled. “I think that’s enough.””Enough?””To get me clean.” Taking one step forward, he slipped and slided up and down the length of her body.

You know, the heroes in my romance novels always say that. Scout’s honor. But they all later admit to never being a Boy Scout.

Isn’t he cute? That he thinks he has a sense of humour?

I think of it like a caterpillar–a wrinkly, ugly worm with traces of dull colors on it. But when the worm metamorphoses, it becomes something truly beautiful.” Charli

Bending the law is different from breaking, my lovely, strategically-challenged Francesca.

Loving someone wasn’t about their perfection. It was about coming to accept every part of them, their good qualities at their weaknesses and flaws–looking on everything they were and loving it all.As she looked on...

He was working that charm right now on the trainer who kneeled before him and touched his thigh as though it were the thigh of David, Michelangelo’s glorious statue come to life right here on...

Not even close. How about a little strip poker?

Anabelle knew she was feeling too much, too fast. That was dangerous. Especially with a guy like Giorgio.

If you ever pull a switcheroo like that again, Dee, I’m going to offer your boyfriend ten thousand dollars to make out with Alice for two minutes.

I don’t need to look at your primal, white-hot, mutant pirate eyes, big guy. Just forget that I’m there, and I’ll try to block out the fact that I ever met you. Basically we’ll just...

Don’t be such a dumbass, Gabe. Koalas don’t travel in herds. They move in heaps. Much like emus move in ripples, and kangaroos travel in photo-ops.

…once I realized that Australia’s top highway speed of 110 kilometers per hour was the same as going 65 in the U.S., all my hardened American enthusiasm for speed went limp until it felt like...

I love the way he looks in his uniform, all man with just a hint of the boy I fell for all those years ago.

How ’bout you give me the benefit of the doubt every once in a while, hmm? I’d like a chance to prove I’m not that stupid kid anymore.

Every now and then, we change our minds. It’s our prerogative. The big secret is” – I leaned in conspiratorially – “sometimes, even we don’t know why. There are times after we pick a fight...

I hate studying and I hate partying. But I’m okay with motocross. And muscles.Motocross and Muscles. Now that should be a Lifetime movie.

It feels like the city is telling secrets down here, privy only to those who think to listen.

We are together. That means I don’t look at another woman the way I look at you. I don’t touch another woman the way I touch you. I don’t feel about any woman the way...

Kissing Kate is like nothing I’ve ever experienced. And as much as I want to think I’m the good guy, as much as I’ve proclaimed that sleeping with an attached girl isn’t my style, I’m...

You need time, and I respect that. But make no mistake about it, I intend to make you mine again. I’m fully aware this won’t be easy. I gave up on us once; it won’t...

My head drops back and I have a fleeting out-of-body moment where I see myself in the window, my hands tied above my head with my legs wrapped around the neck of Chris Merit, while...