“I might have been more worried if I hadn't been defending myself against six brothers my whole life. And if I didn't… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
“My parents want to do things differently. Dad's big on treaties.' 'And your mother?' Isabeau inquired. 'She's big on making grown men… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
“You can have a normal life. It's not too late for you." I nearly laughed. "You've clearly never met my parents. Normal… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
“Finally, my mother's training will be put to good use. Never mind finding an eligible bachelor, I mean to find a murderer.” — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
“And in her underthings, no less!" Murder was less scandalous than my corset and pantalettes. She sniffed. "Like mother, like daughter.” — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
“Come to rob my sister then,have you?" "Certainly not," Mother replied, her smile brittle. "This fashion for talking to the dead is… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
“You are beautiful as always, Violet," he murmured. His parents smiled at us from where they sat sipping wine. There. Every single… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
“He shrugged one shouler, looked away. "It's not so bad,not really." "Why do you stay?" I asked quietly. "Is it because your… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
“He's not good enough for you." "What?" I stared at him incredulously. "I'd say you have that backwords. He's from a good… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
“And then Lucy happened. Never mind prophecies and bounty hunters, she was the one who'd really turned my life upside down… She made everything… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share
“It was a beautiful night, warm and filled with stars and the songs of crickets and frogs. White flowers glowed in the grass. It… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share
“Embroidery?" I sucked at embroidery. Aunt Hyacinth had tried to teach me, but we'd both given it up as a lost cause.Lucy, strangely, had… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share
“I have to console myself with the hope that I'd seen Isabeau soften, even hesitate, as if she might actually have taken my arm.… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share
“I could think of a hundred things I'd rather do than follow a possible murderess and the ghost of her victim.” — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share
“What's the matter with you?" I hissed at her as we followed Kieran and Solange inside. 'She's royalty!' "And a vampire, remember?" 'Oh yeah,'… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share
“Solange and all her irritating brothers could get themselves killed without me. I deserved to be part of their clandestine plans. I'd earned it.… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share
“Logan, don’t be an ass.” “I have been sleeping in mud. I’m covered in dirt and blood and these were my favorite pants before… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share
“Where's Lucy?" I asked the others. "At the farmhouse," Nicholas said with grim satisfaction. "How'd you manage that?" "She's in a closet." Solange rolled… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share
“I kissed him lightly and used the moment to slip the package out of the inside of his pocket. I was a white handkerchief… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share
“We had a short reprieve as Dad cupped Mom’s face and ran his hands down her neck, over her shoulders. “Helena, are you hurt?”… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share
“Hart and Hope,” I muttered. “If you’re going to name your kids like that, of course they’re going to think they live in a… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share
“I might have been more worried if I hadn't been defending myself against six brothers my whole life. And if I didn't have a… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share
