Moving between her thighs, he stretched out above her, then thrust into her. Once. Because, as he did everything, he acted without hesitation or apology to claim her entirely. Her eyes went wide and her breath caught. Holding her gaze, he pressed himself deeper, barely easing back before pressing deep again.

i'm going to marry you. i thought you'd like to know in case you wanted to buy a dress or something.

Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.

I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.

I have no personal knowledge of, or experience with, paramilitary hate groups, or heart transplantation, or escapees from maximum security prisons, or what it's like to be profoundly deaf. But I've written about all these topics, and the books became bestsellers. I figure that if something interests me, there's a reasonably good chance that it's going to interest the reader, too. As I approach my keyboard each day, I remind myself to have a good time - as good a time as one can have doing the hardest work there is.

People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.