SHADOW KNIGHT'S MATE is a compelling story, extremely well-written and alarmingly plausible. Jay Brandon does for politics what Dan Brown did for religion.

It couldn't be the beer. Donnie McRory was certain of that. If you sent American beer out to be analyzed, the lab would probably phone up and say, 'Your horse has diabetes.

Half magic is no magic at all.

I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you're wrong.

Nobody has time to write a book. Some people just do it anyhow.

Domestic rabbits don't have the sense that God promised animal crackers.

Life seems to be a choice between two wrong answers.