Bitter disappointment pushed tears from her eyes.”Now what’s wrong? I said you could wear it.”She drew in a shaky breath.”I w-wanted you to l-like my dreeessssss.”He moved his gaze over her.”The gown makes my mouth...

You are my heart now. Whatever happens to you happens to me.

Look. Isn’t he beautiful?”Drew’s expression softened. “Ah, Nellie. He’s bald, pink, and has no teeth. What’s so beautiful about that?”Nellie’s laugh tinkled out like musical chimes while she covered the babe back up.

How can I expect to get anything done around here with you touching me like that?

Sneezeweed, Drew?”He grinned. “Jealous?””Surprised.””Remind me, and I’ll have a talk with Gerald. Give him a few tips.””Promise?””Absolutely.

He wants a fifteen thousand pound settlement.””Fifteen thousand!””He says you’re a great deal of trouble.”She hesitated for one startled moment before choking back a laugh.”I am.””I thought so.” He leveled Drew a look. “If I...

Oh, they’ll never believe a woman could solve such puzzles. They’ll just assume I’m humoring you by editing it myself and allowing you to put your name to it.”She raised her eyebrows. “But you wouldn’t...

That first scream, my lord, was indeed your daughter, my wife, and if you kill me, your grandchild will be quite without a father. Won’t you come in?

Ho! Wise men say, ‘He who hath not a good and ready memory should never meddle in telling lies.'”Drew smiled. “I have a good and ready memory.

You next,” he said. “Out of those clothes and into bed.”She nodded but didn’t move from Sally’s side. The thought of undressing exhausted her. Where would she find the strength such a task would require?”I’m...

Where do you prefer to sit, Sir?” (Lady Alexandra to William, the Duke, during her mail-order bride interview.)

You were kidnapped not?””I was kidnapped.””You were forced not into marriage?””I was forced into marriage.””You want not an annulment?””I want not an annulment.

I’ve never met anyone as kind as you are, except me Mum, o’ course.” –Benjamin Trimmel to Lady Alexandra.

Lord Randall barreled inside, brandishing his cane in Drew’s face.”You beggarly knave, I was told this marriage was in name only! Who gave you permission to consummate the vows?””Theodore Hopkin, governor of this colony, representative...

The only thing he was sorry for was slamming the door and perhaps raising his voice to the woman who’d been like a mother to him since the passing of his parents. Perhaps she hadn’t...

Their daughter scrunched up her hands and legs, waving them wildly in the air. He opened his palm, allowing the babe to kick his hand.”Is she like a puppy?”Constance choked. “What!”He looked up. “Will she...

A ray of light made a rainbow through the mist. [His] words had given her a small glimmer of hope — the kind of hope she thought had disappeared from her life forever.

Thought you didn’t like red hair.”One of Drew’s dimples kicked in as he draped an arm about Grandma’s shoulder. “Must have me confused with someone else, but I’m not surprised. Seems to happen to most...

The most important things in a romantic relationship are compromise, honesty, openness, humility and trust. If you don’t have these with someone, you don’t have anything.

You could have arrived atop a wildcat and no one would have said a word. They will adore you.

… it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return.