It was important to keep up the tough cookie persona, not the underlying ball of insecurities she felt at the inability to take care of her brother or keep her personal life afloat.

S.A. Taylor 
Shutter (work-in-progress)

“No, he didn’t take anything. He gave me a message. A message for you.”

Marsha West

It’d been so long since they’d danced. She’d forgotten how he’d take the lead so she could close her eyes and float through the muggy air tinged with Cajun spices.

 Sharon Wray

“Ready to get this party started?” he whispered, and an insistent part of his body prayed she agreed. “We should take this inside.”

Jacquie Biggar

AJ, I don’t want to change who you are. I would never stifle your spirit, take your independence, or hamper your freedom.

Sam Bradley w/a McKenna Sinclair

Well back then, a lady might take locks of hair from her deceased parents, husband, or other family member and have them woven into a remembrance piece.”

Claire Gem

“It’ll take about seven months to recover from what she has,” Maria said, winking at all of us.

Joanne Guidoccio

“We need to discuss this at length in our own war room before we take off.”

Kathryn Jane

“I guess I wanted to hurt you as much as you hurt me. But you too went for mine. If we hadn’t run into each other, would you have called?” Jake locked his eyes onto hers as he tried to gauge her answer.

“I was working myself up to it.”

“What a coy answer. And how long was it going to take?”

Marian Lanouette