Inconspicuous was the name of the game for Gail as she seamlessly slipped into the belly of the crowded market square. She felt the eyes of Hayden and Cade boring into her as she began her fake perusal down the line of temporary sales stalls along the left and right sidewalks, keeping the emerald green jacketed man in her peripheral vision. She was at her wits end having to work with Hayden and sh...

The woman never cared for being out late at night, her mother use to say that if something needed to be shielded from the warmth of the sun it was best left to rest in the cover of nights darkness.

She had thought it was an interesting point, and usually always adhered to that logic, but tonight was a special occasion she did not intend to waste locked inside another moment, she had a sweet trea...

In the semi-darkness, the pebbles looked like coffee beans. The sight gave Blair a disgusted chill down her body. Coffee never did anything to her personally, but she hated it all the same. The smell took her back to too many hungover mornings trying to make herself socially acceptable to function out in public, college Blair was a real winner. Now the scent followed her around like a bad habit, s...

The day the blood rain fell on Avallena was the only time in fifteen years Grace allowed herself to feel genuine fear without first consulting Pelios, the God of Emotions, for his approval. The momentary lapse in judgement lasted long enough for her to blink twice, and before the third she reinforced the solid steel walls of her palm size mental box of emotions before surprise ripped through next....

Ally allowed anger to dig its jagged claws into her to escape this growing warmth she refused to acknowledge by naming it out loud. It was a soft heat that would warm up and up as it spread across her cheeks and chest every time she stole a glimpse of Jace while he wasn’t looking, and, strangely, impossibly it grew hotter when he caught her. These sensations were becoming a hinderance with each pa...