From her vantage point, looking up at [Ian] through the water-spotted and slightly blurry lenses of her glasses, he was quite literally larger than life. Right at that moment, with his hands up on his...

Hey, when you love a woman, and when she’s this crazy in love with you, you’ve got to do whatever she says, man.

Let me put it this way. You, my beautiful girl, have the power to really hurt me, with how I feel about you. Far more than anyone else ever has or ever could. I don’t...

She was hot, he was a man; not being attracted would have been impossible. That gleaming dark hair tempted a man to find out what it would look like released from its tight bun. She...

He understood that she needed some time to get used to “them.” He didn’t. He knew exactly what was happening, and he didn’t need another week, another month, another year, to get things in perspective.He...

You don’t have to be religious to hear God, you just have to be willing, and there’s a big difference between the two.

We are only victims if we allow ourselves to be.

I lost one woman I loved. I’m not losing another.

Dark brown nipples and perfect, pert breasts just a little more than a handful. Her abdomen was flat and toned, as if she worked out or ran. “You are built for sin,” he murmured, looking...

…my ear before he added “Until you shatter and my name is chanted like a benediction from your very beautiful mouth.”The only words that my sexually hazed brain could form were “Oh. my

He’d told her she was his. That he was jealous and he wasn’t sharing her. Where the hell had that come from?He didn’t know, but as she leaned forward and pressed her mouth to his...

Shea is in my arms in seconds. We’re not just holding each other but pressing out all the bad, letting it seep from us, and allowing it to disintegrate in the air, leaving room for...

Men like him, the kind of guys who left the womb fighting? They didn’t get fairy-tale endings. They burned bright until they burned out—and he was burning out.

You have a very attractive revenge streak in you. I like it. A lot.” ~Maggie Mae Castro to FBI Special Agent Clive Poole

You can talk to me, you know. I’d never give away your secrets.””What’s that saying about secrets?” she said lightly. “Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

His last encounter with Wendy… Hell, she’d been the one to hurt his feelings.The best sex of his life, and she’d kicked him out as soon as it was over, told him not to bother...

I don’t suppose you have a rocket powered helicopter hidden in your bra?

Write, drink and be merry!

I don’t want forever. I never did… I just want right now.

She didn’t want to talk with Levi. And wasn’t that the problem. She wanted to do things that didn’t involve any talking. Well, maybe it did if you counted dirty talk.

The Russians are on the radar. It’s time.”As Bounter turned to pick up the tiny button-size microphone, Grant clenched his hands into fists, his anticipation building.It’s time.

How do you like that, Corbray? You’re upstaging yourself.

If you were hurt, I need to know.” It was a rule somewhere, in the good-guy handbook.

How can I be more important than someone else? Isn’t every life important?

As Ian looked at her, he felt something in his chest slip and shift. The pressure came with a blood-tingling rush of triumph and satisfaction, pride and a deeply burning sense of possessiveness. His inner...

Nothing sexier than a woman who knows how to hurt you.

I long for your embrace, your warmth, and your gentleness. I crave your touch. Your body, your mind, your words move me. I fear I am not capable of expressing the depth of my emotion,...

Bite me.

There are definite advantages to single beds.””Makes cuddling mandatory.

My life is hard. No one would rob me of that. The clothes I am wearing came out of a knotted up black plastic trash bag from a resale shop downtown. And not the downtown...

If I weren’t so screwed up, I would’ve sold my soul a long time ago for a handsome man who made me feel pretty or who could at least treat me to a Millionaire’s Martini....

After every date we’re going to end up in bed together. You might as well save on rent.”Her lips curled up at the corners as she fought a smile. “That’s so romantic. I don’t know...

From the safety of his BMW with tinted windows, he watched Hannah Young pull out of her parking space, seemingly in a hurry to leave work. He’d hoped to catch her alone, but the garage...

Confused, she pressed a fist to her mouth to stifle her sobs as her tears came harder.The door opened and Lucas stood there, bare-chested, a pair of jeans riding low on his lean hips. “Nora?...

Look!” She pointed, a smile on her face. “Wild pigs!””They have razor-sharp tusks, so don’t try to hug one.

She’d never known a man whose initial move was to undress the woman he wanted.

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...

[describing Aaron, hero’s brother] His hair was shorter and lighter, and his eyes were more green than blue. And even though he was tall, he wasn’t quite super-sized. He was more sculpted, more … elegant....

She knew with chilling and absolute certainty she was next.

I should have trusted you…the woman I fell in love with.

A dangerous glint came into his eyes. “Gabi, if I ever show up in your bedroom in the middle of the nigh, believe me, it won’t be to give you a morality lesson.”She felt the...

Amy, listen to me. What I do. The choices I make. They’re mine. Only mine. The consequences of those decisions—mine.”Mine,” he repeated when she sighed heavily. “No one else’s.”Silence. Only the warm wetness of her...

God is love. He who loves knows God.

Not shy at all. I just don’t think this is the time or place to remind you how beautiful you looked on your knees in that little curtained alcove, sucking me off and daring me...

I was thinking… that this isn’t casual for me.

He sucked in a breath, his head snapping back from hers. Groaning as he filled her, she arched her back against him, her nipples stroking his chest with the movement. They weren’t going to make...

Her gaze met his, her blue eyes filled with confusion and terror – and love. If Julian hadn’t already been in love with her, that would have done it.

Stay on my six, he said, nuzzling the hair at her ear and breathing deeply the sweet scent of her.You remember what that is, right?It’s your ass.

True love has a habit of coming back.

Sometimes it takes you awhile to get to it, but you always get there, and what you say is always worth waiting for.