February is the cruelest month in western Oregon.

A selection of quotes from The Night of Harrison Monk’s Death (Jane Hetherington’s Adventures in Detection: 1)”Is this one of the more unusual cases of safe-breaking you’ve been asked to investigate, Mrs Hetherington?””Remember your private...

Aurora, you’re a child, live like one, don’t act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.

I thought about the current contamination of beaches, raw sewage spilling into oceans and streams, the hole in the ozone, forests being stripped, the toxic-waste dumps, the merry plunder of mankind added to the drought...

As he drove away from his handiwork, knowing he’d left no survivors, the killer looked at the rising smoke and gave himself a pat on the back for another assignment well done…

Regarding both Misty and myself he was egotistical, rude, obnoxious, condescending, insensitive, and mean-spirited⎯and those are his good qualities.

Never confuse lust for anything other than what it is. There isn’t a man alive that wouldn’t gladly take what you are so willing to offer.””Any but you, apparently.” -Eric to Camile, Pawn of Innocence

…she had a new handbag to go with her new attitude.

All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told what to do and not have to think — and never die, of...

Shouldering the duffel bag with the Marine Corps bulldog, Old Man knocked Jan’s photo off the bed table. He turned to stone staring down at the photo. His face then splintered into hurt. Tears seeped...

Please don’t look for me. You won’t find me.

The moon shines like a freshly unwrapped cheese ball at the holidays.”-William Harrison in Truth Insurrected: The Saint Mary Project

He sidestepped down the alley and into another one connected to a small garage, where a raccoon with matching black eyes just like his own halted in mid-step next to a trash can.They stared at...

Fighting with Harper stirred his blood, and walking out on her had only intensified his need, as though the brief separation was more than he could bear. All he could think about was getting back...

She dribbled water over his neck and back. The towel didn’t quite soak up all of it, and drops raced down his back, trailing the curve of his spine. She loved that curve, framed on...

He walked away. It was a shame really, but what could I do? He was the law; I broke the law, two things one should never combine.From WIP The Trinity Saints

Meaning, yes — I don’t really exist except on the page or in the back of your brain. But if you think it’s weird a fictional character’s telling this story, you ain’t seen what happened,...

I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn’t know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn’t have loved her more.

The desperate piercing scream of horror echoed far above the sharpened tops of the trees wrapped in thin obsidian-transparent mist, and I startled jerkily, tripping again, and almost collapsed onto the cold moist ground.

Muslims make pilgrimages to Mecca. Dylan fans make pilgrimages to Hibbing.

Adventure is my middle name.

Her breathing hitched and his all but seized in his lungs for the want of her, the taste of her, the feel of her under his hands. His lips whispered against the curve of hers,...

Alannah?” His voice begged, as he held her face in his hand Still no response. He looked at the ground she had laid on realizing that she had lost a lot of blood. Then from...

Here beneath the towering pines, by the river blueFarragut will ever stand, alma mater true

The two smallest boys were cut down first, bodies bounding in different directions as they were shot from opposite sides of the field, like pinballs caught in a tight corner.

Random lines, Beyond the Darkness: “Playing ‘tag, you’re it’ against a car is a bad idea.

Alistair would never reject her, never make her feel ashamed of her desires…never make her hold back.” – Felicity (The Pleasure Room)

He’s been injecting the anti-aging hormone into his wife.

Hope you didn’t bring any spiders into the van with you,’ Simon put in. ‘Hey, I’m thinking we could take you back outside and hose you down, just to make sure. You’d definitely smell better...

Ruth knew very well what the killer thought he had heard: he’d heard the sound of someone trying not to make a sound – that’s what he’d heard.

Who are you?”The man dismounted and drew from his golden sash a long scimitar. He approached Sir Arthur. The knight lifted his sword and the duel began.

The spell started to brush across my skin, tasting me, telling me what it wanted….Nothing compared to power flowing through you, over you, around you. It was a alluring, sensual as it wound through my...

Let’s make this a slow ride, shall we?”The deep purr of her voice brought a sassy grin to his face. The long slant of his eyes grew languid. “You have the reins, cher. You can...

Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty.

Just read The Virtue of Minding Your Own Business. Oh my, what currents run deep! Beautifully seen, beautifully told. Praise praise praise . . . Pardon my French, but you are one darn major American...

I write to raise the curtain on life’s endless possibilities. Because you asked, “Pourquoi?

give a smile, get a smile, keep a smile

I spent most summers in Italy as a child either in Tuscany or at the Amalfi coast.

THERE WAS ALWAYS a boy in your life that common sense and the prayers of parents told you to stay away from: fast talker, fast car, and fast hands. He was the boy your father...

She came through the door the moment my beer arrived. Fortyish, salon-blonde, spray tan, fake boobs and real diamonds. Anywhere else it would be a bimbo alert, but in Florida it was just protective coloration.

I think if Eternity held torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature, despair. I think that on a certain day amongst those days which never dawned, and will not set, an...

Like two lost souls, we fall asleep in each other’s arms, hoping to find ourselves once again.

Reacher was the kind of guy who solved all problems as permanently as possible.

Eve: “Where’s Mister Scary?”Roarke: “Summerset has the night off.”Eve: “You mean the house is Summerset-free? Damn shame we have to waste it with work.

We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out.

Faces close, they breathed into each other, their bodies slick with water and sweat.

Where you look you follow so never look back and never look down. This quote is especially useful if you happen to be riding a horse.

Why do you even want to be involved with me?” she asked. “I’m a complete mess. I don’t have my head on straight. I’m a master at fucking up everything that’s good in my life.””But...

Muerte sin resurrección

She had to save herself from every last one of them. All of them, the people at the orphanage, the foster care system, the middle school, they were all outsiders and strangers and a possible...