She took two deep breaths before meeting the heat in Rafe’s eyes. “I thought you had a life sentence.”

 Sharon Wray

“You said to ‘look it up in the dic-shun-ry.’”

“Dic-tion-ar-y,” I corrected.

“That’s it. Only we don’t have one.”

Vicki Batman

“I’m so tired of being alone,” he said, his voice thick. “I’m not a person who likes solitude, yet it seems I’ve been sentenced to a lifetime of it.

Claire Gem

Her sentence was a lighter one, and she would be out soon. Too soon.

Joanne Guidoccio

“You don’t get to manhandle me just because…” She clamped her mouth shut on the rest of the sentence.

Kathryn Jane

Turning back to his computer Jake studied the sparse record on Phil Lucci. He had a sealed record at the age of fifteen, a burglary charge at nineteen—he served two years of a fifteen-year sentence and then nothing.

Marian Lanouette

He decided to turn state’s evidence against Sid Cranston, the Las Vegas mob kingpin behind the push to legitimize casino gambling in Texas. Richardson wanted to escape the death sentence Texas so liberally handed out.

Marsha West