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...

Rules and regulations are for humans.

Snatching my hand in the death grip of his fingers, he pulls me off the wall to line his chest, closing his body around me in a muscular cage which smells of leather and soap.

Phoebe, don’t play coy. If you were willing to give a peeping Tom a show, and you thought you were doing it for my benefit, then let’s cut the pretend out of this and shoot...

It took me awhile to learn the rules. OK, it took the librarian in me weeks of careful obsessive research to learn the rules. There was a label maker involved. I’d rather not go into...

Ella knew she should be horrified. Zane had killed someone for just touching her. But, and she might burn in hell for thinking this, she thought it was the nicest thing anyone had ever done...

His touch is incredible, it holds my insides, my heart, my mind, shimmering hot heat into cold places, thawing my spirit… and it rejoices. I’m immediately obsessed, consumed with need to stay in this balmy...

Rubbing absently at my temple, I do declare this woman leaves me flabbergasted and tongue tied.

in my darkest hour she answered my call without resentment or guilt, without hesitation

Good God, you’re not a morning person, are you?

I realized that the whole time I was holding this beautiful stranger in my arms, feeding on her, it felt like I was betraying Sofia.

You need me, Kane. Maybe even more than I need you.

If you want to bleed sweetheart, I can make you bleed. I promise if I do it will be way more fun.

He gives me one of those twinkling stares. His eyes coalesce and fragment color, glinting specks of midnight purple and an electric blue, when the light catches them just right. Straight on they look like...

Free your mind, Jowendrhan. A cage is only a cage as long as you believe it is.

‘Rose, come here.’ Christian grabbed my hand and guided me back down on the couch next to him.

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.

Come here.” He made the request, but she didn’t move. And it took every last drop of patience he could muster not to drag her into him by force. But Eve was not a damsel...

Just once, he looks back at Arsay, and I feel like an entire encyclopedia of information and words is exchanged between them. I wish I could speak telepathy too.

God bless you butterfly, because now I’m claiming you like no mate has ever been claimed in the history of our kind

Wal-mart started selling “Vampire Home Defense Kits”, including holy water, crosses, stakes, mallets, and a book of quick blessings to bar vampires from your door. The fact that these kits were generally useless didn’t bother...

Her fingers dug into the doorframe she leaned on, hoping and praying that he would just step out of the shadows and kiss her the way he had done so often in her dreams.

Now more than ever I wish I had a cup of oblivion. But there is no mercy for the people who have left the darkness for the light. The darkness lingers until you stand naked...

I’ve known you forever, and you are only just remembering me.

His touch cable knits my veins, remaking and remolding who I am.

Love will find a way against time itself.

You Can Not Run From Destiny

Last warning. I don’t play nice.

Kissing her again, softly, I leave my t-shirt next to her pillow.It’s the silent promise that I’ll come back again tonight.

How awful is it to be sane enough to be fully aware of the day you realize you are completely losing your grasp on reality. I’m crazy. Not just a little bit, but rubber room...

Aye,” he smiles, joy igniting in his stormy gray eyes, stroking my hand possessively as if unwilling to let me go for fear I am nothing more than a hallucination about to wear off.

Yes, I’m hungry. Horny, too! The thought of feeding from you is a most delectable idea and it’s playing havoc with my brain as well as other parts of my body.”He sat up and scooted...

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.

boy parts” before.

Hold tight, and I promise to do the same. We don’t need a safety net Zena. We have each other.

Running my fingers into his thick hair, I wallow in the strength and heat surrounding me before he pulls away, giving me such a happy smile it makes my heart rattle inside my chest. There’s...

I am not the kind of girl who trusts a man to tell her everything she needs to know in his own due time, so I did some research on my sire. You can take...

We’re soldiers, Emily. If we’re not elders or council members then that’s all we are. We’re here to serve those above us. We’re novel worthy, day walking, blood sucking, tortured souls trapped in a body...

Like opium, nerve annihilation stretches up my veins to pump incinerating anguish through my body.

Look into my eyes and deny me.

she’s so caught up she’s unaware she’s no longer the prisoner here, I am

I’m twenty-nine, happily single and getting it on a regular basis’ I said, enjoying the way their thin lips hung open in an impressive O.’Well I’ve never,’ Jane gasped.’Clearly. You should try it some time....

And she loved the way he made her feel, the way her heart beat when he was near, the electricity she felt at his touch, and the nervous butterflies he always caused in her stomach.

You upped the ante with the wrong vampire, Caitlin.

So many people talk about the Golden Gate bridge, but I would bet they haven’t seen the new Sava River Bridge. It has long metal ropes suspending it, like a gigantic angel’s harp waiting for...

Inhaling, I am ignited with the first breath of freedom

Alone in the dark all we have are the supernal lights in each others eyes left to illuminate the room, the only sound our breathing.

So, if he wants to treat me like I’m ten instead of twenty, that’s okay. If he wants to have one of his company cars take me and pick me up from school, that’s okay....

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?

She was pure indulgence. Hot, liquid sin. That last piece of delectable chocolate cake you knew you should walk away from, but if you didn’t have at least one more taste, life wouldn’t be worth...