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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. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 37f5f26 | She'd been drawn to him before she met him. Immense satisfaction filled him. He liked that, more than liked it. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 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. | 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. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| cb4ed92 | The paparazzi always swarmed around them, giving them better alibis for their work then anything else ever could. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| df3ffd6 | This wasn't about bringing justice to criminals no one else could get to. This was about the knots in his gut that coiled tighter and tighter, and felt personal. Very personal. And that in itself was shocking. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 7f97ad4 | He had to find a woman who would have the genetics to produce children capable of riding the shadows and carrying on their work. That was his obligation. He could never simply fall in love; he had to fall in love with the right person. The odds of finding that were so slim, most riders never believed it could happen. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 3200468 | Cheating? It just says he's really nothing and he doesn't respect himself or me. I'd rather live on my own. | Christine Feehan | ||
| a1be679 | Standing in the mouth of the tube, he needed a few seconds for his body to feel as if it had come back together. There was always the sick feeling that came with fast travel, with being pulled apart and put back together. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 3ef5b97 | Vittorio's breath left his lungs in a long rush of shock. Something tight in his chest loosened. Someplace vulnerable. Someplace guarded and protected. He pressed his hand tightly over the spot, feeling as if that voice had been a key, fitting perfectly into the lock and turning it before he had a chance to react | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 4e549b9 | The woman, as small as she was, standing valiantly in the face of the threat the Saldi enforcers presented, sent heat rushing through his veins. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| f9c7146 | Vittorio, always the one to seek solutions verbally, had no middle gear. Either he was talking logically, or he was acting, and when he went into action, he made every blow count. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 023d5d4 | There's always going to be a part of me that is that little girl no one wanted. | 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. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 7a4acf8 | She had the beginnings of trust in him. He needed that from her. To gain the kind of absolute faith and trust he needed from her, he had to show in every way that he would always be there for her. That trust could never be in any way taken for granted or abused. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 357506f | I was always in danger. Always. I felt every minute of the day that I was walking a tightrope and any moment I was going to fall. Part of me just wanted it over. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | 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 | |
| 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. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense | Christine Feehan | |
| 6c575a6 | She took a slow look around her at Stefano's siblings. All of them stood as still as statues. Beautiful, gorgeous specimens of human beings, tough and dangerous, waiting for her signal, completely prepared to protect her at any cost. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense | Christine Feehan | |
| 735f955 | She belonged to Stefano. With Stefano. She felt the others moving closer, taking her back. She belonged to the Ferraro Family, and no one fucked with a Ferraro. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense | Christine Feehan | |
| 6b9ce96 | He was the protector of his family-- the entire family in every city or town around the world. He was their key to survival. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense | Christine Feehan | |
| 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 | |
| 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. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense | Christine Feehan | |
| 38d689e | It wasn't her looks that caught his interest or made him stand utterly still. It was her shadow. The sun was throwing light perfectly to create tall, full shadows. Hers leaked long tentacles. Thin. Like streaks reaching out toward the shadows around her. Everywhere there was a shadow, hers connected to it with the long feelers--with long tubes. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense | Christine Feehan | |
| 0d97a6b | The feelings of conquest and possession mixing with love were a heady combination. Those traits were deep in him and she accepted him without judgment. How could he not be in love with her? | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | 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 | |
| 56d2a9e | Vittorio Ferraro was the most extraordinary man she'd ever meet and she would forever regret being a coward if she didn't give what had been growling between them a chance. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 117a695 | She didn't want the mask he wore around others. She wanted the true intamacy he had given her, the real Vittorio, the real man. He had offered her that man and she'd been so afraid she'd rejected him. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 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. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 096b38e | If you let yourself believe in me, I'll take care of us. I believe absolutely, without a shadow of a doubt, that you'll take care of us just as well. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| acbfbe1 | Now there was Grace. An unexpected gift. She was far more than he'd ever fantasized about. She was courageous and beautiful. Intelligent and no pushover. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 00736dc | Claiming her as his. He was rough, demanding and possessive. He wanted her to feel his brand of love. Complete. Encompassing. Reverent. Carnal. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| af11e90 | She was an intelligent woman and she wasn't just going to hand herself over to him because she was tempted. He loved that about her because it meant when she did fully surrender, he'd earned it and he had a much better chance of keeping her when he had to tell her he was a shadow rider and what that meant for both of them. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| e243dd0 | He'd meant what he'd said when he'd told her he didn't want to ever see her hurt or with tears in her eyes. He knew never was a long time, but he would still do his best to make that promise count. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 500eaf4 | She was known as QBSITDROH" She rattled off the letters fast as if she'd used them often. [...] "You'll have to teach your special name to sisters-in-law. They occasionally need a humorous way to cope. What does it stand for?" "Queen bitch spawned in the deepest recesses of hell." | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 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. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 487cc91 | He was born a shadow rider and trained from the time he was two. There was no other job or interest for him. It was considered a sacred duty and no rider, if he was capable, would ever walk away from it, no matter how difficult. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 77dd5b9 | The life was lonely, regimented, dangerous and formidable. Now that he had Grace in his life, even for a short few weeks, he wasn't willing to go back to that stark, lonely existence. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 5f50b8e | For all the downsides to being a rider, there was his family. Always there. Always ready to help and watch out for one another. His family was one of the biggest gifts he had to offer Grace. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 0ef1e19 | What did she think? That a man like Vittorio Ferraro was playing an elaborate hoax on her? That was absurd. She just knew she knew she couldn't take rejection from him, so it was easier to leap on the first legitimate excuse to run. Her jumbled fears weren't making any sense. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| dd89176 | His breath hitched. His lungs seized. She was the last thing he'd expected to happen because...frankly...a woman like her was so rare. He didn't know how to feel about it, but suddenly there was nothing else more important, not even Ferraro family business. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense | Christine Feehan | |
| 00c4b20 | She didn't want to be that girl, the one curled up in a little ball. The one under the covers in the fetal position. She'd been there hundreds of times and every single time she'd told herself to stand up. This time, win or lose, if she just stood up, she had the very real opportunity, which would never come again, to be with a man she'd dreamt of. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense-thriller | Christine Feehan | |
| 0057629 | He looked gorgeous. Tough. Dangerous. Completely hot. And he was all hers. | romance shadow-rider-series suspense | 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." | romance shadow-rider-series suspense | Christine Feehan |