Blake smiled while greeting him and turned to introduce me to his friend from Camp Lejeune. Blake made the formal introductions while I studied the two distinguished men. I liked the way they both carried...

There are no guarantees with love,’ her father said, reading her mind. ‘You can’t hold some of it back, like a deposit, so you can get your money back if something goes wrong. You have...

The parasail’s winch turned, winding up the line, pulling Ally and Serena lower and closer to him in a steady pull. A funny feeling seized him as he watched her. Logically, he knew she kept...

It was her. No one had eyes like that. Eyes as pure as the sky on a fresh, wintery morning. Ones that sucked him in and refused to let go. No one had her touch....

I jumped at the sound of Drake’s voice. “You scared the crap out of me! Where did you come from?”He raised his eyebrows, “From what I learned in Anatomy, I came from my Mother. But...

There’s something about a cowboy…

How was it that the one man who could take their company down appeared to be the only one who believed in her?

Everybody’s crooked. The trick is to find out how they’re bent.

Do they expect us to have sex right here on the kitchen table?”Gunner, who was chewing a piece of toast, paused, considered the idea, and then shook his head. “Too messy. We’d get sugar everywhere....

Thanks so much,” Daisy said as graciously as she could to the gift of edible underwear from her fiancé’s grandmother. She was pretty sure this wasn’t covered in any of the bridal etiquette guides.

Being with Demetri wasn’t the absence of pain, it was the added presence of peace, making it easier and easier for that little part of my heart to heal again.–From Pull: A Seaside Novel

But then he combs his fingers through my hair, starting at the base of my neck, and I shiver with uncontrollable, unexpected pleasure.

Quietly, under my breath, I mumbled a name and it wasn’t the name of the girl waiting in the other room. In my mind I pictured Brooklyn’s sounds as she came and I jerked in...

A year ago, you fell into my arms and I felt some crazy connection to you. I’m sure as hell not good enough for you, and I’m sure as hell not making any promises, but...

To start taking care of you?

You are so going down for that.” He grabbed the keys and headed back to the road. “When you least expect it,” he added over his shoulder.”I’m shaking in my shoes,” she called out.”You’re not...

This kiss was better than any climb or bungee jump or zip line. Better than any other kiss. Damn him.

My happy place, huh? Well, yeah, I guess that’s what music is for me.

He’d never been shy, but he’d always been a little uncertain around girls. He just couldn’t believe they liked him.

He shackled her with his hands, the press of his mouth ceaseless in its demands. She couldn’t move, couldn’t see, could barely breathe. Giving herself over to the fact that this was actually happening, that...

I’m resourceful,” she called after him.Resourceful, he thought, rinsing his hands with the ladle she’d left in the bucket. “A euphemism commonly used by successful criminals,” he called out to her.”If I were so successful,”...

You could have fucked me ’til your uncut, overexposed on the blogs, ‘too ginormous for my snatch’ pecker fell off. And I’d still no way never ever in a thousand years sell, loan, sample you...

Sam stood on the second floor veranda of the hotel, across from the pool, and looked out spotting Claire. His heart took a tiny leap in his chest when he first caught sight of her...

This seemed like one of those make-it-or-break-it moments where you have to consciously choose to do the right thing. Or be bad.

At the beginning of our relationship, my heart pounded so loudly whenever Istood near him. He had an effect on me that no aspiring vicar should have on a young woman.

You can donate marrow for her, Alice Faye, you can’t cure her. You can win a poker tournament, but that won’t make her want to live. So I’ll ask you again: Who are you, and...

Would you like to hear about the fascinating things lizards can do if you chew off their tails?

I don’t think I heard the same ending you did. Maybe you should tell it again.

Alice, you might be the product of the biggest ball of ignorance, confidence, and good fortune the universe has ever manufactured. But if you’re thinking that you can take your results at the virtual tables...

I’ve lied all my life. I’m just now learning how to tell the truth, and I’m not going to start playing games again, especially not with you.

The man was potent to her system, her very own drug.

I once heard this statement that women marry men hoping to change them, while men marry women hoping they’ll never change.

It’s called true love. Most people never find it.

Anything she might have said died in her throat at the sight of him. His black hair was disheveled, his morning stubble hypnotic, and the rakish way his shirt was undone at the throat and...

Whoa!” She looked so cute, but vulnerable, too. He closed the arm around her shoulder, squeezing her sideways to his chest. Embarrassed, she smiled as she elbowed his rib. Then she dropped her arms and...

I turn my head so that he doesn’t see my smile and secretly curse him for making me feel special.

Mags, I don’t know how many more times I will have to say this, but here it goes. You’re amazing, you deserve the best, and I want nothing more than to be whatever you need...

Baby, I held back today to let you get over all you’ve been through. But don’t let that mislead you. You wouldn’t be here if I planned on protecting you from me.

I want you to say it, so I know you’ll never forget. I want to hear you say my name.

Boys have penises.” At that moment, Michael was very aware that he, himself, was a boy.

Her arms slid around my back and I heard the softest moan in my ear as she snuggled into my chest. Her mouth pressed to my neck, not kissing, just…there. On me.Dammity-damn-damn-damn.

I would praise the Lord above for a ticket to that ride.

Aye, I won’t be asking you to make me Roger jolly, if that’s what has you worrying.

Hi Maggie, it’s nice to see you again,’ he said, smiling so sweetly I thought I might need insulin.

Sometimes the clouds weren’t weightless. Sometimes their bellies got dark and full. It was life. It happened. It didn’t mean it wasn’t scary, or that I wasn’t still afraid, but now I knew that as...

Therapy can’t erase scars, it only makes it easier to live with them. — Duke

B.O.B. and I have a longtime understanding – when we’re done with each other, we know exactly which one of us has been used, and it isn’t me. Good night Gideon.

Tell me you like it, Olivia. Say the words. Tell me I’m the only one who can set your body on fire like this.

Do you ever go out there when it’s like this?” she said softly. “When it’s almost dark and there’s no one else in the water?””I do. It’s nice being alone out there.””It doesn’t make you...

I’m sorry, Melissa, but can you blame me for worrying? In less than an hour I found out you’re being stalked by a killer, sleeping with a stranger, and hiding with him in an empty...