In another time and place, she might have felt differently, but thinking along those lines was pointless now.

That's my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that's where my home is.

I might kiss you. I might be bad at it. That's not possible.

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.

Why did you say you believed me ?" In profile, he could see both the young woman she was becoming and the little girl he remembered. "Because I trust you.

Mike, however, heard nothing at all. Lost in her breathlike touch, he knew only one thing for sure: In the instant their lips first met, there was a flicker of something almost electrical that made him believe the feeling would last forever.

A good man is hard to find," she said wistfully. "Not everyone is as lucky as you are.