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Cam was sitting on the bed, still clothed. His head was lowered, hands braced on his knees in the posture of a man who was deep in thought. He glanced up as she came into the room and closed the door.
“What’s the matter, love?”
“I…” Amelia approached him hesitantly. “I’m afraid you won’t let me have what I want.”
His slow smile robbed her of breath. “I have yet to refuse you anything. I’m not likely to start now.


Lisa Kleypas

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Jai la...
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-Ella ...
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...
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LISA KLEYPAS Ah, there’s the governess voice. All stern and disapproving. It makes me feel like a naughty schoo...
LISA KLEYPAS Daisy was wearing a butter-yellow gown that wrapped tightly around her slender waist and pushed the ...
LISA KLEYPAS I’ll tell you what I’m fighting for. Not for England, nor her allies, nor any patriotic cause. I...
LISA KLEYPAS The way glass can be molded or blown or cut into any kind of shape made me think about how we as peo...
LISA KLEYPAS I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind or adorable, alth...
LISA KLEYPAS You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic…someone who can experience things...
LISA KLEYPAS I-I’m not making advances,” she told him as she flattened herself against his chest. “You’re...
LISA KLEYPAS My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.
LISA KLEYPAS I won’t apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience.”
“From all indicatio...
LISA KLEYPAS Slowly his resistance ebbed. She felt the change in his body, the relaxing of tension, his shoulders...
LISA KLEYPAS I don't really like this song," Emma had said.
"You told me it was your favourite."
"It's ...
LISA KLEYPAS I've missed you, Sebastian."

"Have you, love?" He unfastened the buttons of her robe, the...
LISA KLEYPAS Annabelle’s eyes stung as she stared at him, while need and inexhaustible tenderness gathered like...
LISA KLEYPAS He toyed with her ear, catching the rim delicately between his teeth. “I’ll admit it wouldn’t ...
LISA KLEYPAS You’re not like any man I’ve ever known,” she said. “You’re not even someone I could have ...
LISA KLEYPAS Cam paused, staring down at her with dilated eyes, the irises bright gold rims around circles of fat...
LISA KLEYPAS I have a proposition for you,” she said, trying for a businesslike tone. “A very sensible one. Y...
LISA KLEYPAS He looked disheveled and disreputable, like an outlaw on the run. A smile came to his lips, while he...
LISA KLEYPAS You’re not like any man I’ve ever known,” she said. “You’re not even someone I could have ...
LISA KLEYPAS Any man," she muttered, "who wanted to marry into the Hathaway family after this should be shut away...
LISA KLEYPAS The Rom believe you should take the road that calls to you, and never turn back. Because you never k...
LISA KLEYPAS A slow smile had curved St. Vincent's lips. 'Wives are a different case altogether. They require a g...
LISA KLEYPAS Cam held her closer. "Marry me, Amelia. You're what I want. You're my fate." One hand slid to the ba...
LISA KLEYPAS Browsing among the stalls, the sisters feasted on hand-sized pork pies, leek pasties, apples and pea...
LISA KLEYPAS Amelia, if we have children … will you mind that they’re part Roma?”
“Not if you don...
LISA KLEYPAS I found it when I was getting the crushed bees for Merripen’s poultice. I brought it back for you....
LISA KLEYPAS Any man,” she muttered, “who wanted to marry into the Hathaway family after this should be shut ...
LISA KLEYPAS The situation was extraordinary. How someone like Evangeline Jenner could have wrought such a change...
LISA KLEYPAS I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word... the enti...
LISA KLEYPAS He uttered a curse that startled her with its foulness, and gripped her head between his hands, forc...
LISA KLEYPAS And then another letter had come from Christopher, so devastating that Amelia wondered how mere scra...
LISA KLEYPAS Zoe gave him a look that was difficult to interpret. Eventually she asked, "What makes you sure I co...
LISA KLEYPAS You took advantage of me while I was sleeping," she said breathlessly. "That's not fair."
Gent...
LISA KLEYPAS He was unbelievably hard. Everywhere. He was in control, infinitely stronger, and he wanted me to kn...
LISA KLEYPAS Aristotle taught that stars are made of a different matter than the four earthly elements— a quint...
LISA KLEYPAS Hardy was every loose-limbed cowboy in warn denim, every pair of blue eyes, every battered pickup, e...
LISA KLEYPAS His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if the...
LISA KLEYPAS Sturm und Drang?”

“Ah…I see that I’ll have to introduce you to the finer points o...
LISA KLEYPAS I didn't want to give you the one last part of myself that I couldn't take back. And then you were g...
LISA KLEYPAS In this regard, Daisy reflected, her marriage to Matthew would not be unlike Lillian's with Westclif...
LISA KLEYPAS Honesty is overrated. As someone once said, 'Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the heart....
LISA KLEYPAS While the indecisive customer hovered over an array of perfumes that Nettle had brought out for her,...
LISA KLEYPAS I wonder why it is that so many light-haired women smell of amber..."
"You mean amber perfume?"...
LISA KLEYPAS The moment you enter the room, the earl becomes far more animated. It is obvious that he is fascinat...
LISA KLEYPAS Here, I’ll read his explanation. ‘Your success in capturing the heart of Lord Westcliff was pure...
LISA KLEYPAS A good perfumer was part alchemist, part artist, and part wizard.
LISA KLEYPAS Because you need me," he said, drawing in his breath as she squirmed against him. "Just as I need yo...
LISA KLEYPAS If you won’t marry me for the sake of your own honor, then do it for the sake of everyone who woul...
LISA KLEYPAS I was going to have to leave you anyway. Because I loved you too much to drag you
down with me....
LISA KLEYPAS I wanted more of those sweltering kisses. I felt terrible about that. But the warm sunny fragrance o...
LISA KLEYPAS I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to ...
LISA KLEYPAS Sometimes I'm not nice for a reason. It's a way to find out what someone's made of.
LISA KLEYPAS I love you," she said wretchedly. “And if I were well, no power on earth could keep me away from y...
LISA KLEYPAS I'm not good enough for you. But no one is. And most men, good or bad, have limits to what they woul...
LISA KLEYPAS Some folks are happier not being saved.
LISA KLEYPAS Darlin'...I know what you look like when you've been kissed.
LISA KLEYPAS Poor people have few choices in life, and most of the time you don't think too much about it. You ge...
LISA KLEYPAS Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.
LISA KLEYPAS I say," Llandrindon remarked, "your performance at bowls is exceptional, Miss Bowman. I've never see...
LISA KLEYPAS