This was election year so it was sort of fitting to read a contemporary romance with a political election as the backdrop. I found this to be one of those books for me that when I started reading it I wasn't that impressed with it due to my feelings about the heroine (it was not getting my vote a...
“What the hell did you do?” Kyra cried, her bullet wound finally starting to close up, flesh mending over flesh.“I saved your life,” he growled. “You can thank me anytime.”Saved her life? She had everything perfectly under control before he interfered.Kyra started to get up, but Marco growled, “Y...
She sat up, almost tasting the metal barrel of a rifle as she clutched the sheets. “Alex?” He’d pulled on a pair of pants and now stood in front of the screen door, gripping a pistol in his hand. “Alex, what are you doing?” His whole body quaked as if he were a junkie coming off of a high. “Gods ...
The man didn’t tremble with fear the way she wished he would—not the way she still trembled when she remembered the explosion. Neither did his cruel mouth quiver the way hers did when she remembered being engulfed in flames. No, the war criminal’s expression didn’t change.Even though she held his...
Break me into pieces— Now many of us are there. Layla wished she hadn’t looked at herself in the mirror. She didn’t even recognize the woman she saw there bent forward over the sink, arching her back like some animal in heat. Her pupils were so dilated that her eyes were nearly black. Her hair ...
he asked, and Dessa watched his lips curled with doubt. “Like…?” “Like in ancient Greek lore!” she cried. He was hurting her—the way he gripped her fingers tightly—but truth was pain, and after five long years, she was tired of living a lie. “Have you never heard of a chim...