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The Grays
He was very annoyed with this family, who were so damnably late to bed. But this time, there was only a single dim light showing out of the upstairs bathroom window. He trotted out into the broadness of the road. In the distance, he saw a flash and thought perhaps he heard a shout carried away by...
The Vorbing
The sound of panting behind him made Vlad stop and look back. It was Norvad and Anamis. Vlad noticed the scalp of Anamis was throbbing from his exertions. “What’s wrong?” Vlad asked. “We’re coming with you!” the old man said. “Why?” Vlad asked. “We w...
Desiring the Forbidden
She couldn’t fathom how she’d handle being paddled too. And now he sat with his arms outstretched, reaching for her. She couldn’t resist — didn’t want to resist — and ran into them. He laughed, pulling her to sit on his lap, holding her face between his hands and kissing her nose. “It’s all over....
01 The Building of Jalna
With axe and long-handled billhook they cut away the saplings and the undergrowth. Then they attacked the trees. Now the axes were whetted to extraordinary sharpness. The man swung the axe and brought it down in a deft, slanting stroke on the proud bole. Then he struck upward, meeting the first i...
Some Sweet Day (1973)
I was trying to focus on just one of them while it was still up near the window and follow it all the way down to the piece of tin where we set up the stove in winter. Nero, lying outside the screen door, raised her head from between her paws and pricked her ears toward the barn. I heard his sing...
Airs and Graces
At all costs bring a good wine with you when you come; here there is only beer, which is tolerable, and gin, which is not. [Letter from Louis de Glabre to his friend Philippe Froidevaux, 18 January 1737] I passed the bridge on my way up to the George where I was to meet Hugh and Balfour. There wa...
Loving Laura (The Cantrelle Family Trilogy)
He felt the eyes of his parents and sisters watching him. He balled his fists, wishing he could do something concrete to help them— something other than offer platitudes. Damn, he felt helpless. He stopped pacing; he wanted a cigarette desperately, even though he’d quit smoking two years earlier....
Notorious in the West (2014)
And taller—when she gave him a haughty look—the kind beautiful women specialized in—stepped into the center of his private suite of rooms and offered yet another ridiculous declaration. “And you won’t be having Miss Holloway dismissed,” she went on briskly, “because I’ll b...
Mike
I followed the old woman down a short corridor and into a large kitchen area. She pointed towards the dining table. “Sit. Sit … ” I pulled out one of the chairs and sat. The dog, I noticed, stuck close to her, watching from behind the folds of her skirt. Just like a little kid who’s scared of vis...
Don't Ever Get Old
He’d turned on his computer after the funeral, and by dinnertime he had uncovered information that would have required a proper detective to burn a lot of shoe leather and cigarettes, waste a lot of time in the records room and the newspaper morgue, and probably bust a few heads as well. I turned...
Sol: Luna Lodge #1
She glanced around for Marius but guessed that he bailed as soon as he could. “Thank you for your time,” she said to Titus. She watched as they nodded to one another. “Are you going to take it?” Sol asked once they started to walk down the hall. “I don’t know really.” She glanced at him from the ...
More Than Friends (Kingsley #4)
They talked through movies, through dinners, through sex. They spent evenings together after one or the other of them finished the workday, and Michael was surprised at how much he loved waking up tangled in her hair. It was almost too easy, how perfectly they fit together. &nbs...
Twentysix (2011)
Ruby, who in a former life was Rudy, running around with his Chelsea hooligan mates kicking nine bells out of anyone and everyone, is telling us about her latest trade. Ruby has yet to have the chop the op and finds plenty of men who want to suck on a cock in a frock. She is regaling us as we sta...
Sinner
All that stuff she was going on and on about school and a career, it’s hard for me to believe that she doesn’t want a man to take care of her. So many women would give anything to be my woman and live the life of a rock star’s wife. Then again, all of the women I’ve met wh...
Shadow of Stone (The Pendragon Chronicles)
Thus the King Arthur disperpled his host in divers parties, to the end that his enemies should not escape. Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur To Cador's relief, the trip north was uneventful — but that did not mean it was pleasant. They had won a battle, but not a war, and t...