Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.

And what renders him so unmarriageable?” Eloise asked. Francesca leveled a serious stare at her older sister. Eloise was mad if she thought she should set her cap for Michael. “Well?” Eloise prodded. “He could never remain faithful to one woman,” Fran-cesca said, “and I doubt you‟d be willing to put up with infidelities.” “No,” Eloise murmured, “not unless he‟d be willing to put up with severe bodily injury.

Do I look like a mess?” she asked. He nodded. “But you’re my mess,” he whispered.

Reformed rakes make the best husbands,"Violet said. "Rubbish and you know it." -Anthony to Violet

Until you've lived through all that," he said, "don't you ever complain about what we have. Because to me... to me..." He choked on the words, but he barely paused before he continued. "This - us - is heaven. I can't bear to hear you say otherwise.

I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.

Raw toast," Lucas said grimly, shaking his head. "It goes against the very nature of man.