But Roarke doesn't feel weird about it. He's full of it, the love, I mean. And when he loves me, things that never worked in me did - do. It was easier when they didn't work, but it's better when they do. You know?

I saw you standing on a veranda you'd built with your own hands. And I loved you.

He decided there was no point in telling her he'd looked in the fridge and seen none of these things. There'd just be some variation of his mother's standard crack about Male Refrigeration Blindness Syndrome.

I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

Once she'd been a victim- helpless, used, and broken. Now, she was a warrior.

A kiss isn't terminal." "It is the way you do it.

I'd always loved to read - and come from a family of readers - but I never thought about writing as a career.