When I was her age,” Munro said to Eilidh, “I was chasing frogs.”Oron Chuckled. “When I was your age, I was chasing frogs. Come. We have things to discuss.

She made a hungry, eager sound, parted her lips and took the tip of his cock in her moth. Belatedly her mind caught up with what she had done.Um, maybe she should have asked first....

We’ve already slept together and you made no objection.

I will love you forever,” I murmured, and he stroked the hair off of my forehead.I will hold you to that.” His face was grim and his voice was sober—hetouched my handprint of chaos as...

Of course the fall semester didn’t start for another eight weeks or so. There was always a chance we were both being overly optimistic in thinking I’d be alive when it rolled around.

This is beautiful.” Eugenie ran her fingers along a massive mahogany sideboard, on the top of which rested a red velvet sash with fine embroidery on it and, on top of the sash, a silver...

Cassie was not a screamer! She didn’t scream at football games or on rollercoaster rides or at scary horror movies. Not that rollercoaster rides and scary movies didn’t make her want to. But she just...

His hair was shorter than I remembered, tawny in this half-light, the tousled edges casually framing the clean, commanding lines of his face. His mouth, normally so stern was relaxed now and as I stared...

Maple. MaypoleCatch and carry.Ash and Ember.Elderberry.Woolen. Woman.Moon at night.Willow. Window.Candlelight.Fallow farrow.Ash and oak.Bide and borrow.Chimney smoke.Barrel. Barley.Stone and stave.Wind and water.Misbehave.

If you want to search me for more weapons, I’m game.”My eyes shot back to his, and I felt my cheeks flush, hot and bothered on the way to angry. Leave it to a guy...

After a taste of a Scot, you’ll never look elsewhere again.”A brunette smiled seductively, “That’s quite a boast.””I’m quite a man.

His words were almost soundless. “I’ve gotten to a really dark place, Melly. The darkest place I’ve ever been.””You don’t have to be there anymore,” she told him gently. “Don’t you know what happens at...

‘Oh, sure, Cassie said. ‘Take me to your faery world. I’ve always wanted to see Tinker Bell.’ Not. She’d had to watch the movie when she was a kid because her parents had thought she...

You’re here!” She repeated, wrapping her arms around his neck and her legsaround his hips. He’d dropped his bags as she’d ran, and now he cupped her bottom in his large hands…His heart gave a...

I wanted to pull out his toenails and poke them in his eyeballs.

We walked the length of Jackson Square, stopping to look at the work of a couple of artists who’d set up their sidewalk shops for the day.”Look.” Eugenie stopped in front of an acrylic painting...

Cassie – She loved reading romances – contemporary stuff. She wasn’t into fantasy. No fairytale princess and prince stories. No vampires. No werewolves. No immortal fae.

She shifted in his pocket, pressing her back against his chest. “It’s iron.”Instead of walking into the elevator, he glanced down at her. If he kept craning his neck this way, he was going to...

Chronicler shook his head and Bast gave a frustrated sigh. “How about plays? Have you seen The Ghost and the Goosegirl or The Ha’penny King?”Chronicler frowned. “Is that the one where the king sells his...

A weathered black and silver Dodge pickup towing a small motorboat pulled up behind us, and Alex circled back to greet the driver. I couldn’t see who sat behind the crusted and dirty windshield, but...

She leaned a shoulder against the tunnel wall and thought of Kellan. A Dragon King. A dragon and a King.A gorgeous man who kissed as if there were no tomorrow and made love skillfully, adeptly....

Tell me what the fuck you want me to do, and I’ll do it.

Alicia’s sweet friend, Cassie, who never thought of anyone as being a stranger, rushed up to Halloran and kneed him in the groin. The big bad dragon shifter cried out, clutched his crotch, and fell...

It’s elfish, the feminine nounfor ‘other equal half’. You are my other. My everything.”–Wounded(Bracken and Cory)

Unseelie dreams make unseelie fae.

She shook her head. “I can’t believe you got bit and you didn’t even get an orgasm out of it. I guess True Blood isn’t true after all.

Sex is still on the table. We just keep the yucky love stuff out of it.”…”Now where is this table you speak of to have sex on? You should take me there. Now.

He didn’t say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I’d been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat...

Keeping up with him would require running, and there is no dignity in running after any man for any reason, injured or not.

His mouth descended on hers in a fierce kiss.He seized, he captured.He dominated.And she loved every second of it.

He groaned, “Goddamn, you’re so hot.””I know,” she whimpered as she moved restlessly under his weight. “I’m burning up.”At that, he had to lift his head and grin down at her. “No, baby,” he said...

Cassie spoke up, ‘He is like Peter Pan and the Lost Boys.’ …Tameron said, ‘No one is lost here. And we have just as many girls, well, maybe not as many as we have boys,...

That smell is all you. I love that smell too. I want to wear that smell on my skin and roll around in it. I want to live in that smell alone.”–Wounded(Bracken to Cory)

Your American fairytales end that way. Real fairytales end in blood or tears.

Alex leaned over and treated me to a Rhett Butler kiss, slow and deep but not too sweet. He once told Scarlett something to the effect of how badly she needed kissing, and by someone...

A low, purring rumble reverberated in his chest, his voice tight when he spoke. “Ah, hell, You’re naked.

I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn’t Buffy–I was so screwed.

Jean Laffite was a sexy bad boy with a gentleman’s manners and an air of barely suppressed danger. Every girl’s secret dreamboat in other words. We always say we want a nice, hardworking, decent guy...

You aren’t meant to be a prisoner. You’re powerful and incredible.” “You’ve no’ seen me in dragon form.””I don’t have to. I see the man before me now.

She had tried to imagine him as a young Gladiator in the arena. Back then he must have been as dangerous as a lean, half-starved alley cat. Now, the alley cat had long since vanished....

Well, than that solves it. I’m not a faery, so I’ll just go back to sleep, and you won’t come to see me anymore.” It nearly killed her to say it even in a dream.”I...

Heard your heart breaking.” Said Grace.

I return my attention to the situation at hand and realize Reality—the impatient bitch—has made my decision for me. She does that a lot. You get busy planning your life, then it has the nerve...

I didn’t dare put down the staff with Etienne popping in and out like a half-burned, bloodsucking whack-a-mole.

The woman had a body wet dreams were made of, and he couldn’t remember being this goddamn hard in his life.

Some of the fae have an odd idea of bride send-offs,” he explained “including, according to Zee, kidnapping.” “I forgot about that.” And I was appalled because I knew better. “Bran and Samuel are probably...

I narrowed my eyes. Jean stayed awfully well informed about prete politics, and often told me things the Elders hadn’t yet learned. I suspected this might be one of those things. “How do you know...

She was never going to get used to how much the Faeries seem to stare at her, as if dissecting her and examining the little pieces inside her like a science project.~Ever Fire: A Dark...

What do you want?””You.” His voice was soft, low. His eyes were intense and watchful.

Blood tricked down Molly’s neck from the stinging cut Justine had given her. She thought, dear lords and ladies, all I want in the whole wide world is a bath, a pina colada, and the...