If he was planning to attack and ravish, he gave no indication of being in a hurry to do so.

But looking beautiful isn't, I think, as important as feeling beautiful.

Love is blind,” Harriet quipped. “But not illiterate,” Elizabeth retorted.

Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.

He'd been waiting for a love fraught with passion and drama; it hadn't even occurred to him that true love might be something that was utterly comfortable and just plain easy.

Annabel looked down. Her hands were shaking. She couldn't do this. Not yet. She couldn't face the man she'd kissed who happened to be the heir to the man she didn't want to kiss but whos she probably was going to marry. Oh yes, and she could not forget that if she did marry the man she didn't want to kiss, she was likely to provide him with a new heir, thus cutting off the man she did want to kiss.

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