watched as they flashed clips of people dancing, bartenders fixing whatever drink was en vogue, and a montage of interviews with delighted patrons. Maybe I really should try going out, it looks like fun… but...

You’ll be in good hands with the colonel, you’ll see.”The colonel? Okay, I was obviously stuck in a Gone With the Wind theme park. Or maybe a Kentucky Fried Chicken farm.Or I was simply hallucinating…

I didn’t have a great grasp of what guys considered a “come hither” look, so maybe I gave him one. I’d thought it was a “leave me the hell alone” look, but who knew. ~...

In the blink of an eye, the fairytales told to children were as real as death and taxes. Vampires, shifters, trolls, demons and creatures of myth, were as real as the air we breathe.

I should like to understand more about the signs on the shirt you wore earlier. What was it: Eat the tail and suck the head?

A ghostly voice shivered along my spine, whispering, “We shall meet soon, bèt nan bwa.

I meant to text quickly, but it took five attempts to type with my thumbs. Ever since the time I accidently told Wick I’d stopped for cocaine instead of coffee and when Mel, my best...

Been lickin’ peanut-butter spoons? Maybe I should call you butterfingers. It has a better ring than Hella Shella. – Tran’Answer my question, Tran. Right now. Or I show you just what these fingers’–I wiggled my...

Yes. I appreciate the helpful and long spreadsheet with all the many places you can’t go.

I made the decision. I want you more than I want heaven, more than I want to be an angel. I love you more than who I was created to be.

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 needed him. More than just his blood or the pleasure he offered with his playground of a body, she needed him—and that was far more terrifying than becoming a blood sucking monster.

Thane – She grasped my face in her hands and pulled me to her, pressing soft kisses on my lips. My arm slid around her waist, and my hand pressed against the small of her...

You don’t have any balls?’ For once I wasn’t trying to be insulting.

Tell me, Mrs. Moon, will your need for sustenance trouble you on this excursion? How often do you need to feed?” I couldn’t tell whether his interest was scientific, or whether he was afraid I...

My thousands-of-years-old virgin…

Stay for me. Stay with me. There will never be anyone else. Not in my bed. Not in my life. And not in my heart.

I believe he’s been asked to testify today,” I told Lennox, who’d continued to track Truman’s progress through the room. “He’s a member of the historical undead, Truman Capote, the author. He wrote Breakfast at...

That is strange and creepy,” Marcy remarked, “but totally cool. You Ghostbustered her.

Ever notice “demon” in the word pandemonium?

God, why do I bother trying to help you? It’s not like you appreciate it. It’s not like the word ‘thanks’ is in your vocabulary. It’s like you’re not capable of being nice to someone...

Licking her lips, she whispered, “Gotta be faster than that, pretty kitty.

I love you, Jocelyn, and nothing, not even death, will ever keep me away from you.

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

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

His dark blond hair was short and neatly trimmed around his ears. The blond highlighted it just enough to make one think it’d been kissed by the sun, but I knew better.Stopping a few feet...

Jason is explaining the ins and outs of being a bird shifter to Merry.She says:”Sheesh. Okay, I think I only have one more question.””Shoot. No, don’t shoot, but ask away.””If someday I get pregnant, will...

Was I altering the ‘space-time continuum’ or whatever they called it in time travel movies, just by existing right now? Perhaps I’d accidentally kill a mosquito that might have given some famous person a disease...

I wish I could stop time and keep you out of danger.She turned and placed a kiss on the palm of his hand.Without the danger, we never would have met.

Locking eyes with a shape-shifter was aggressive. Very aggressive. One generally didn’t do that unless one wanted to fight. Or fuck.

Jesus, Jess, it would be nice if you stayed out of life-and-death scenarios for five minutes.

Tall and built like a dense forest, Clint’s broad shoulders made a girl want to learn how to scale trees. Except me. I wanted to start a forest fire.

So where did you get your information? Werewolves for Dummies? No, wait, you watched Underworld? Or maybe you were raised by wolves? Stop mewhen I’m warm.” – Shella

She pulled her lips away again. “Wait!”He stopped and stared at her.”I’m relatively positive we’re not supposed to be doing this.””Who says?””The laws of nature and God.””Laws are made to be broken and God just...

Sleep now, baby. I’ll be here when you wake.

She drank in the sight of him, the power, the virility, the sheer sexiness. She knew just how well those lips of his kissed, how gentle and coaxing his hands could be, and how mouth-watering...

Aiden whirled on the tall cowboy. “What the fuck’s your problem? Teresa looks like sex on heels so pull that stick out of your ass.

Your scare tactics are useless on me, Thane. My people have needs of their own, and they don’t include being locked up in an underground cavern by a bunch of overgrown mosquitoes.

Mer—mermaids. There are fish with women’s bodies or—women with fish bodies sitting upon the rocks. I—I never knew…

I guess us folks in California are kind of straitlaced and old-fashioned.”Hahaha, I thought on the way downstairs. I never thought I’d say those words with a straight face…

You’re starting to look like you did before, and that’s not good because what you looked like was complete shit, so get up and go to bed so I can stop acting like your mother....

Wait until you meet my family. At Thanksgiving, we kill everything we can find, put it into a pot, and call it ‘holiday gumbo’.

You are kind, caring and intrinsically good. I am hateful, vengeful and intrinsically evil.

If you don’t do doggy, you don’t do demon

As usual when I drank too much I started talking about things I should’nt…That night Kate told me I had no brains and she was officially done with me. OK, fair enough. I already knew...

Damn tricky cats!

I’d chase you anyway. I’ll chase you forever.

I never counted on you, lass. You are strong, honorable, clever, shrewd, beautiful, and resilient. You doona ever quit, and you doona ever give up. So why give up on me?

If for some reason she never regained her memories, she still didn’t want to lose this male. Even the thought of that happening sent a shot of agony ricocheting through her.Larissa tore her lips back...

When I see you, Jolie, I see a woman who is far more than she realizes but who will someday grow into her powers. One who is much stronger than those who would trap her...