True vice, my lady, would frighten us all, if it did not wear the mask of virtue. (p.56)

My definition of man is a cooking animal. The beasts have memory, judgement, and the faculties and passions of our minds in a certain degree; but no beast is a cook.

Ready yourselves!’ Mullone heard himself say, which was strange, he thought, for he knew his men were prepared.A great cry came from beyond the walls that were punctuated by musket blasts and Mullone readied himself...

I’m accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion.

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

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.