Nothing gets the blood boiling quite like an unkempt woman.

You should know that Rafael is not the beast he would have you believe he is. He may be harsh, but he is fair. However, I highly recommend that you endeavor to be on his...

Papa had always told Justine that guns had a remarkable capacity to focus the mind. She couldn’t say with any confidence that her actions had cleared the minds of the drunken louts before her, but...

It was so unlikely that she should be there, standing on the far side of the ballroom, and yet there she was. Unlikely Lucy, gleaming, a jade flame burning bright in a sea of mere...

Chronology of any event worked best in obituaries. It had no place in the world of sentiment, where memories, ideas and assumptions co-existed side by side.

It may be small comfort, but I believe Rafe doesn’t want to kill you.”A light laugh escaped her lips. “Actually, that is a substantial comfort.

Linnet’s thudding heart raced blood through her veins, sending a flush of embarrassing heat to her face. She had been avoiding him, but she could never tell him why. It took all her discipline not...

Keep your hands off me.” She spoke viciously, through her teeth, and he caught a glimpse of her deVere ancestry. She was a virago in tiny, fragile, fairy form.

There was no need to analyze the feelings that the people caught in the commission of the amorous act, held for each other, for it was literally written in their hands.

Rafe pulled Cassandra into his arms. “At first, I wanted my arm back to feel whole again and to not appear weak before my enemies. Now I only want it to hold you.

To Jane’s horror, he unfolded her paper and read aloud. “Possible Candidates as Lovers.

Good night, my lord.” The words were pronounced in her most withering tone.By contrast, he remained quite alarmingly unwithered long after she left.

My disadvantages will tire him as they would any reasonable man of small expectations.” – Jane Adams

Rafael possessed unfathomable strength. His speed defied the laws of nature…and his bite, good God, his bite. How could something so macabre feel so pleasurable?

I wouldn’t trust me, either, if I were you.

I choose to believe that my father is still alive, that he has survived death, outlived us all, and possesses the soul that goes on and lives forever; We just cannot see him yet, for...

We must go to the laboratory at once. I have some cannabis.

All right. You take the chair.

Love is ease.

So the Bawdy Bluestocking was the proprietress of her own shop, selling lurid novels to ladies in the front and more esoteric fare in the back, from the looks of the shelves around him. He...

I should be obliged to marry you after all, and then I’d likely murder you before the wedding breakfast was over.

Te amo, Querida,” he whispered, stroking her hair. “Tu eres mi luz en la oscuridad.” I love you. You are my light in the darkness.

Life is, you know, but an idea. You can fill it up with anything really and deceive yourself into believing that is what you need. You can be happy, sad, benevolent, crafty, unpleasant. That man...

Don’t stop now,” he whispered.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life.That word is love.”(Sophocles)by Adam Harford, Duke of Harford,from the last page of “Sophie’s Salvation

Lydia is enduring the same fate, I may remind you.” Vincent remarked. “And she is doubtless freezing, being forced to stand there in only her chemise.” A rakish smile spread across his features. “Perhaps we...

You need no practice. You are clearly an expert.

simple.

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

I need to go hunting now,” he rasped. Before I tear off your clothes and plunge my c*** and my fangs inside you.

You have become everything to me.

My God, I hate the country,” he said.

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...

Rafe tugged her closer before she could trip over a gravestone. “Damn it, woman. Devil take your wagon! You fail to grasp the severity of this situation.

Love will find a way against time itself.

Let me give you one piece of advice. Do not get between a woman and her cause.

Like the dancing.

Te amo, Querida,” he whispered suddenly, stroking her hair. “Tu eres mi luz en la oscuridad.””This is the second time you’ve said that,” Cassandra murmured. “What does it mean?””I love you.” His voice was as...

Hetty shivered. Goodness, he had no business looking at her like that. Physician my eye! Physicians definitely didn’t look like him; they were short, round and adorned with wigs and spectacles.

Being a pioneering reformer is all fine and good, but it does leave one terribly in want of agood party!