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37c34af
|
She turned back to him slowly, those eyes of hers meeting his until he felt the impact all the way through his body, as if she'd shot an arrow and it was lodged in the vicinity of his heart. He had to resist putting his hand over his chest and pressing hard.
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|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense-thriller
|
Christine Feehan |
|
1669cfa
|
I'm not just a brain to you. I'm a person.
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|
fantasy
paranormal
romance
|
Christine Feehan |
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b61d42f
|
Sheriff, I'm wanted everywhere--but not by the law.
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|
romance
|
Beverly Jenkins |
|
b6e3fce
|
We're all family. Family takes care of family no matter how bad it is or what the cost to us personally is [...]That's what we do. We're Torpedo Ink and that IS Torpedo Ink.
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|
romance
torpedo-ink-series
|
Christine Feehan |
|
a793fff
|
You're a good man, Vittorio. No matter what, you're a good man.
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|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense-thriller
|
Christine Feehan |
|
3987417
|
Steele felt the weight of that sacred ink on his back. It was there for a reason, to remind all of them they were stronger together.
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|
romance
torpedo-ink-series
|
Christine Feehan |
|
bc8f025
|
"Stop," Ricco all but snarled the command. "You're a Ferraro. You never, ever fucking let them see they got to you. Even here, Francesca, you keep your head up. You remember who you are. If you can't do it for yourself, you do it for him. For Stefano. I know you love him."
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romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense
|
Christine Feehan |
|
bdc3eb9
|
She was the one. His only. He knew it with every fiber of his being.
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|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense-thriller
|
Christine Feehan |
|
5fd3bd5
|
Could she give herself to him? She knew two things about him. He was a man with a strict code of honor, and he was a very dangerous man capable of swift violence.
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|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense
|
Christine Feehan |
|
be45fe5
|
You make me feel alive, Grace. Every cell in my body wakes up around you. My heart. Who knew it was even possible?
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|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense-thriller
|
Christine Feehan |
|
a322261
|
Vittorio Ferraro stood in the shadows, his skin crawling with the need to move. Something was wrong. Not just wrong. Whatever his churning gut was about, he'd never quite felt the urgency of finding the source of the trouble as he did right then.
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|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense-thriller
|
Christine Feehan |
|
3e7be28
|
Let the past go, Bren, or it will ruin your future.
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|
cranberry-blood
elizabeth-morgan
psychics
romance
urban-fantasy
vampire-slayers
vampires
werewolves
|
Elizabeth Morgan |
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9913771
|
He was just so intimidating and darkly sensual, filling the room with his presence until she could barely think straight.
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|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense
|
Christine Feehan |
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414b4df
|
He had learned to kill and then he had killed. Many times. Fourteen was far too young for his artistic mind to accept the violence and he'd been fortunate that he'd met his teacher, a rope master of more than forty years. The art had saved his sanity and his life. He needed it like others needed air.
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|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense
|
Christine Feehan |
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415faa8
|
It was at home, when she was alone with herself, the way she'd been her entire life, that she was lost. She had no purpose. No focus. No center to balance her. Now, this man, Vittorio Ferraro, an amazing, sensual, intelligent man offered those things to her.
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|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense-thriller
|
Christine Feehan |
|
94e347d
|
She knew, more than any other reason, it was the way Steele touched her, the way his hands moved over her and the look on his face when he stared down into her eyes that kept her tied to him. He couldn't hide that.
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|
romance
torpedo-ink-series
|
Christine Feehan |
|
c3f8301
|
He was different from every other man she knew. He was capable of loving; he was at once a laughing daredevil and a hard-hitting businessman. But most of all, he needed her. Other patients had needed her, but only as a therapist. Blake needed her, the woman she was, because only her personal strengths had enabled her to help him with her trained skills and knowledge. She couldn't remember anyone ever needing her before.
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romance
|
Linda Howard |
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92e1f72
|
Years ago women were nothing, Eloisa. They had no rights. They couldn't own property. They were property. That changed because it wasn't right. Children were beaten regularly by parents. That changed because it wasn't right. Just because something is tradition, handed down from one generation to the next, doesn't make it right.
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|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense
|
Christine Feehan |
|
2a72981
|
Sie denkt: Sie sagen einfach nur Worte und was sind Worte anderes als Gerausche, die diese Manner aus Atem formen, gewichtslose Dampfe, die sie in die Kuchenluft schicken, wo sie sich auflosen und sterben.
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|
historical-fiction
romance
suspense
|
Anthony Doerr |
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29cbd3b
|
Francesca took a deep breath. Inhaled Stefano. She feared once Barry entered the room she wouldn't be able to breathe properly. She didn't want to take the chance of drawing him into her lungs. He was in her nightmares; he didn't get anything else from her.
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|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense
|
Christine Feehan |
|
28d17d3
|
"You know that if I ever do settle down with some woman, Lillie is going to come after you next," Hawk said. "She's relentless. She'll have you married within weeks after I tie the knot. Mark my words." He took another drink and swallowed. "Be afraid. Be very afraid."
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|
romance
suspense
thriller
western
|
B.J. Daniels |
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442597d
|
"Lady, what you do to me is almost criminal," he groaned in a shaky voice. An odd tightening in her breasts made her close her eyes. "I've got to go," she said weakly, but for the life of her she couldn't make herself move. "No, don't go," he pleaded. "Let me touch you... my God, I've got to touch you!"
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|
romance
|
Linda Howard |
|
ca04f97
|
He was a shadow rider and that meant no one, 'no one' other than family, and even then close family, could the truth about him. She had to be in completely. Committed to him.
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|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense-thriller
|
Christine Feehan |
|
8f876fc
|
For all I know, the guy is Dracula.
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|
romance
urban-fantasy-romance
vampire
ya
|
Mari Mancusi |
|
cb4ed92
|
The paparazzi always swarmed around them, giving them better alibis for their work then anything else ever could.
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|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense-thriller
|
Christine Feehan |
|
26b5efb
|
"Mine." He nearly spat the word. Telling her. Wanting that word branded into her bones. Wanting his name carved deep into her soul. She. Was. 'His'. His everything."
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|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense
|
Christine Feehan |
|
8d560a7
|
A lot of who you were in middle age was determined before you had a chance to manipulate, control, or eve understand the things around you. It was no mystery, he thought, why some old people's minds returned to their youth; the wonder of those years, the discoveries, the first experience with the dirty secret of death, and the first stirrings of lust and love were indelible, drawn in luminous colors on clean canvas. Indeed, the first sex act was so mind-boggling that most people could still remember it clearly twenty, thirty, sixty years later.
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|
humor
inspirational
life
love
lust
old
romance
science
sex
wisdom
|
Nelson DeMille |
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cf0b922
|
"Payne sought clarification. "Vertical or horizontal?" "Horizontal, of course." "Sorry but I can't help you." "Will you pipe down for a minute? Naturally she was dead since I work at a cemetery. Her face struck a chord though. So, I rummaged around in the old Rory memory bank, and Emily is what rings a bell. Didn't we go to school with an Emily? Tenth or eleventh grade, if I recall it correctly."
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|
crime-fiction
mystery
romance
suspense
thriller
writing
|
Ed Lynskey |
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455ca08
|
He could hurry everything else in his life, but he was never going to make the mistake of hurrying his time with Grace. She was too important and everything else could take a backseat.
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|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense-thriller
|
Christine Feehan |
|
cfb493d
|
She drew back from his embrace so she could look into his eyes, her own swimming with tears. The uncertainty in her face nearly killed him. She had no idea how lovable she was. How precious and brave and special.
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|
romance
|
Sarah Mayberry |
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481af0c
|
"She moistened her lips and lifted her lashes to look into his piercing blue eyes. There was a mixture there. Possession. Desire. Triumph. Demand." "There's no taking it back, Francesca." He warned."
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|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense
|
Christine Feehan |
|
26acddb
|
She had a way of giving him comfort when nothing else could. The wailing of the dead. The accusations of their eyes because he couldn't save them. She drove those dead children away from him and brought him peace.
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|
romance
torpedo-ink-series
|
Christine Feehan |
|
d201508
|
Il en voulait a Emma de cette victoire permanente. Il s'efforcait meme a ne pas la cherir; puis, au craquement de ses bottines, il se sentait lache, comme les ivrognes a la vue des liqueurs fortes.
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|
emotions
madame-bovary
romance
|
Gustave Flaubert |
|
83790ea
|
He could see faint streaks of light as if the man left behind prints. They didn't appear like footprints, there were more faint bluish lights, more of a blob-line than a print, but every person left them behind and from shadows he could see them. He couldn't spot the imaging once out of tube, but the shadows acted as if he was seeing through a thermal lens.
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|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense-thriller
|
Christine Feehan |
|
d475404
|
They'd always kept eyes on one another. Always. It was Czar's rule. Their rule. Their code. Their promise to one another. It was how they survived. But he hadn't. He'd taken his eyes off Demyan and he'd died in the worst possible way.
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|
romance
torpedo-ink-series
|
Christine Feehan |
|
d541720
|
It was the worst nightmare possible for a boy like Steele. He felt responsiblity, even when he was just very little. Something in him needed to help all of us.
|
|
romance
torpedo-ink-series
|
Christine Feehan |
|
8359f2c
|
Other people were so unsuccessful at fending off love! Members of Congress who had affairs with their aides, or students who I'd known in college, girls who as freshmen declared themselves lesbians, then graduated with boyfriends- to give in to such love represents, for them, a capitulation or a betrayal, yet apparently the pull was so strong that they couldn't resist. That was what I didn't understand, how people made the leap from not mattering in each others' lives to mattering.
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|
relationships
romance
sexuality
|
Curtis Sittenfeld |
|
d8147bd
|
She didn't tell him, but his voice alone could seduce her. Having his hand on her was beyond exciting. Exhilarating. She wanted more. She wanted to feel as if she belonged to him.
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|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense-thriller
|
Christine Feehan |
|
2587cbd
|
All three brothers were their signature three-piece suit. Gray, pin-striped, made of a special material one of the many cousins invented, the stripes allowing the Rider to fade immediately into the shadows, making it more difficult for anyone to see them. More importantly, the suit would come apart with them when they were pulled apart, drawn into the tubes in the shadows.
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|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense-thriller
|
Christine Feehan |
|
d83095b
|
For the first time in her life she had the urge to turn around and flee. She knew danger when she saw it, and Ricco Ferraro was pure danger.
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|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense
|
Christine Feehan |
|
da32e30
|
Remember, good things come to those who wait.
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|
clean
funny
romance
sweet
|
Debbie Macomber |
|
de3ab4c
|
"She was mixed--Japanese and American. Nothing. A nothing. A nobody. The 'kanji' in her last name meant "female devil." She didn't even know what her real last name was because she'd dishonored the family simply be being born."
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|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense
|
Christine Feehan |
|
de619a4
|
She did something to his insides, twisted and melted them until he sometimes felt he couldn't think straight.
|
|
romance
torpedo-ink-series
|
Christine Feehan |
|
de669e5
|
Where was her sharp intellect? She relied on her brain. She could think fast and was good at details. When Vittorio was around, the only details she could remember were how his smile was so beautiful and how his voice was so gentle and yet compelling.
|
|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense-thriller
|
Christine Feehan |
|
fe8ba8b
|
Either way, he was always staring into a bottomless pit, or into a whirlpool that forever sucked him inexorably inward to its vortex.
|
|
angst
bottomless-pit
dancing-with-clara
despair
mary-balogh
metaphor
rake
regency
regency-romance
romance
romance-hero
|
Mary Balogh |
|
7c2b7ae
|
He preferred curves to supermodel thin. He didn't understand why women were so hard on themselves. Francesca was beautiful and he didn't want a single pound to go away.
|
|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense
|
Christine Feehan |
|
e1d8b82
|
His voice. It was beautiful. Low. Soothing, yet the same time, there was absolute command, as if he ruled the world and knew it.
|
|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense-thriller
|
Christine Feehan |
|
e1e4a53
|
He evidently did not care that they were in full view of a cluster of dog-owners walking their dogs. He stopped and took her in his arms, kissing her passionately and urgently.
|
|
marriage
romance
|
Alexander McCall Smith |
|
e28b274
|
A part of her was thrilled. The same part was terrified. Already it felt too much like ownership. As if he had already branded her in her bones. In her soul.
|
|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense
|
Christine Feehan |
|
77a8bd0
|
This is how I thought of it. An intuitive link, a reciprocal, one number related to another in such a way that when multiplied together, day or night, their product is one.
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|
love
romance
|
Don DeLillo |
|
58817d8
|
Lorsque j'ouvrais les yeux dans l'obscurite et que je te sentais contre mon flanc, je m'etonnais qu'il n'y eut pas d'etoiles au-dessus de moi, tant le ciel semblait present.
|
|
romance
|
Stefan Zweig |
|
e35cc82
|
But marriage is forever.' 'Oh, not really,' he assured her. 'Only until one of us dies.' Her eyes widened. 'I do not want you to die,' she said. 'Perhaps you will go first,' he said, though I rather think I hope not. I would probably have grown accustomed to you by then and would miss you.
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|
historical-romance
marriage
regency-romance
romance
wedding
|
Mary Balogh |
|
e44cc17
|
In their world, once two shadows were connected and totally interwoven, breaking those shadows apart was a frightening prospect. The riders would lose all ability to ride the shadows and the departing non-Ferraro partner would lose all memory of the family and what they did.
|
|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense
|
Christine Feehan |
|
20d0cfa
|
"She looked desperate. He felt that way. He wasn't about to be separated from her. "No matter what, I'll be with you," he promised."
|
|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense-thriller
|
Christine Feehan |
|
e5a4471
|
I also became familiar with an entirely new category of people: the unhappily married person. They are everywhere, and they are ten thousand times more depressing than a divorced person. My friend Tim, whose name I've changed, obviously, has gotten more and more depressing since he married his girlfriend of seven years. Tim is the kind of guy who corners you at a party to tell you, vehemently, that And that you have to . And that going to couples' therapy is not only normal but something that everyone needs to do. Tim has a kind of manic, cult-y look in his eye from paying thousands of dollars to a marriage counselor. He is convinced that his daily work on his marriage, and his acknowledgement that it is basically a living hell, is modern. The result is that he has helped to relieve me of any romantic notions I had about marriage.
|
|
marriage
romance
|
Mindy Kaling |
|
4ba16e8
|
"Your eyes are like melted gold," he whispered. "Cat eyes. Do they shine in the dark? A man could get lost in them," he said, his voice suddenly rough. --- "You're the loveliest thing I've ever seen," he murmured. "As exotic as Salome, as graceful as a cat, as simple as the wind... and so damned mysterious. What goes on behind those cat eyes? What are you thinking?" She couldn't answer; instead she shook her head blindly as fresh tears made her eyes glitter."
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|
romance
|
Linda Howard |
|
e7cc917
|
The little brown house was my father's house, which was actually blue, but Amy was making another inside joke. I'd always liked our inside jokes the best - they made me feel more connected to Amy than any amount of confessional truth-telling or passionate lovemaking or talk-till-sunrising.
|
|
romance
|
Gillian Flynn |
|
1f50e68
|
I am going to be Queen of England,' I protest. 'You make it sound like a battle to the death.' 'It is a battle to the death,' she says simply. 'That is what it means to be Queen of England. You are not Melusina, rising from a fountain to easy happiness. You will not be a beautiful woman at court with nothing to do but make magic. The road you have chosen will mean that you have to spend your life scheming and fighting. Our task, as your family, is to make sure you win.
|
|
historical
romance
war
|
Philippa Gregory |
|
e9a2cba
|
...I think I might die if I don't kiss you right now. A real-life kiss.
|
|
cute
gamer-girl
kissing
love
maddy
mari-mancusi
romance
|
Mari Mancusi |
|
6f43394
|
Fear sitters down her spine, yet excitement welled up like a fountain.He looked all man, a tough, scarred man at the edge of his control and knowing he was that way because of her--for her-- was exhilarating. She wanted him to look at her like that--all hungry leopard, a man craving--needing her body. HER body. HER skin. HER.
|
|
romance
shifters
|
Christine Feehan |
|
1b670b8
|
Samantha imagined that in another life, she and Alison could have, indeed, been friends. Had she not been about to rob the train.
|
|
highlander
historical-romance
notorious-rake
romance
scotland
wild-west
|
Kerrigan Byrne |
|
10de173
|
We'll be all right. Somehow, we will. Trust it is the truth.
|
|
cranberry-blood
elizabeth-morgan
psychics
romance
urban-fantasy
vampire-slayers
vampires
werewolves
|
Elizabeth Morgan |
|
f142a04
|
With Hank at her side, she would never really be blind again. His eyes were hers, just as he'd vowed. When they grew old, they would take walks at sunset, and she'd be able to see everything. His gift to her--pictures painted with words. Love wasn't about easy, according to Hank. It was about sticking through thick and thin. He would always be with her, unless death took him first, and even then, Carly knew she'd never be left in complete darkness again. She would have the love of this man to light her way.
|
|
romance
|
Catherine Anderson |
|
4d8191d
|
She moistened her lips and lifted her lashes to look into his piercing blue eyes. There was a mixture there. Possession. Desire. Triumph. Demand.
|
|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense
|
Christine Feehan |
|
63df03b
|
"He buried his face in her neck and held her in his arms, absorbing the form the shape of her, the miracle of her. It had been so long since he held her, loved her, taken all that she was and given her everything he was. "I missed you." It was a ridiculous declaration. "Missed her" didn't begin to cover at all how he felt."
|
|
romance
shifters
|
Christine Feehan |
|
f3b2c86
|
Le charme de la nouveaute, peu a peu tombant comme un vetement, laissait voir a nu l'eternelle monotonie de la passion, qui a toujours les memes formes et le meme langage.
|
|
madame-bovary
romance
|
Gustave Flaubert |
|
637ef50
|
He was a Rider. A shadow rider. It was who he was. What he was. A rider no choice but to do what he'd been trained for from the age of two -- even before that. It was in his bones, in his blood, he couldn't live without it. He dispensed justice to those the law couldn't touch.
|
|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense
|
Christine Feehan |
|
fa264b2
|
His shadow and hers had become entangled in spite of his efforts to keep them apart. Although, truthfully, he hadn't tried that hard. He knew if she rejected him, the consequences to him would be dire.
|
|
romance
shadow-rider-series
suspense-thriller
|
Christine Feehan |
|
12b8c54
|
He would let Violet find her own way and time to tell Elizabeth. In the interim, he would listen and hold her hand and offer his counsel, but he would not push. He understood now how deep her wounds ran, how hard it was for her to trust that she could make mistakes and still deserve love.
|
|
romance
|
Sarah Mayberry |