If not for the heaviness in her chest, she might have enjoyed how festive the stable owner had made the horses. Though thankful she and Chayston had formed an agreement, it hadn’t taken away her memory of the kiss. They’d been civil to each other the past two days, but tha...
‘Make him stop.’ Elena exchanged a silent look with Ragnar, who was hiding his amusement. Beata was one of five children they’d fostered, besides Matheus. Though none of them was of her own blood, she loved them. Some days she felt more like a shepherd than a mother, herding the children, feeding...
Beside him, snuggled beneath the covers and encompassed in the haven of slumber he'd been in seconds ago, Randi rolled over. Flipping the covers aside, he padded barefoot across the carpet and out the bedroom door to one of the front room windows. Throbbing, his gullet rose, blocking his windpipe...
Moments later, the nagging suspicion of being watched made him twist his neck. Two bright blue eyes gazed at him. The child—a boy—knelt beside the bed with his chin on the edge of the mattress. "Hi," the kid said with a grin that showed his front two teeth were surprisingly large. "Hi," Snake res...
Sammy didn't look nearly as disheveled as she did. Flour covered her body from head to toe, every time she moved a puff of white came from somewhere. A glob of bread dough, pie crust, or perhaps butter, smeared one cheek, while a long, black streak stretched down the other. All of it made her loo...
He filled his chest with a fresh breath and trailed her face with smaller kisses. It was amazing how one kiss from her could refuel his body. He no longer felt drained, but renewed with energy so strong he knew this craze he had for her would never wane as long as he lived. A frown of confusion t...
After a morning of sulking, she found her determination rebounding, and by the end of the week she had her plans for retaliation fully in place. Shading her eyes with one hand, she searched the valley below. Tiny dots came into view and her heart skipped in her chest. “You can run, Rowdy McGuire,...
He didn’t ask.” Ginger spun around. The sheepish grin on her father’s face tossed her back ten years, to when she’d been the apple of his eye and had him wrapped around her finger. “And I told him a man’s integrity will make him my son-in-law long before the size of his pocketbook.” “Brock’s as h...
He’d slept all afternoon, right through the evening meal. She was thankful he was still cool to the touch, and knew sleep was the best thing for him, yet she wanted him to wake, just to make sure he was indeed all right. The yearnings she’d had earlier were still with her,...
What she felt couldn’t be put into words.“Are you all right?” he asked, one hand gently gliding up and down her arm.She kissed his chest, loving the taste of his skin. “I’ve never felt more wonderful in my life,” she admitted truthfully.“Me neither,” he said, kissing the top of her head.Thrilled,...
Standing beside the charred ruins, Marie wanted to run over and start pounding on that stove. It had become her worst enemy. The inanimate object had taken on an evil personality, fighting her every time she had to build a fire in its belly. If it wasn’t filling the cabin with black smoke—open da...
She actually wondered if she had dreamed it all, until she opened her eyes and saw Karleen standing next to her bed. “Ivy and I are leaving for church now. Carter is minding the store. He said you were still sick most of the night. That you spent a considerable amount of t...
He tipped the brim of his hat back as he nudged his mount closer to the commotion. The edges of a blue dress fluttered beneath a tree limb, exposing white pantaloons covering a set of legs stretched out and wrapped around the branch, holding a woman in place. She tossed aside the cinnamon-colored...