“He’d made love to her four times now, he realized, but this was his first chance to truly look upon her body.… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Look at that ship. That clipper cost me a queen’s ransom, even with the Kestrel thrown in the bargain. But it was… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“The love of books was an instant connection, and a true boon for a girl who tended toward shyness, because it was… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“I wasn't aware that hope require a reason, any more than love. In case you have forgotten - I have no talent… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Her affection overwhelmed him, as did her softness, her tears. Even after all he’d said to her, after all he’d done-she still… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Pauline, she could almost imagine it to say. Pauline, Pauline, Pauline. That couldn’t be right. It had to be saying something else.… — tessa dare Copy Share Image
“What the devil was Davy doing up there with a marlinespike? That’s what I’d like to know. It’s a sailors duty.” She… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Griff had never been the fanciful sort, even as a boy. When he was with Pauline, the world was different. She forced… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“I do love rocks, as a matter of fact." A coquettish smile crept into her voice. "I find them utterly fascinating. I'm… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
For the love of ammonites, man! That's just stupid. Why on earth would the Society need to protect unmarried women from bone-dry… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
Mr. Sand, do you think it's possible to fall in love in the space of a single day?" He smiled. "I wouldn't… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
I have to go," he said. "You don't understand. Someone wants to kill me. "Someone wants to kill you?" she repeated. "Well,… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Because I can only love you entirely. With everything I am, and everything I ever will be. Body, mind, heart, soul.” -… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“The further he raided, the closer he came to the other rooms. Those unused, cobwebbed chambers of her heart. Would he dare… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Thorne, I think I’m falling in love with you.” “Katie.” He took her face in his hands. Roughly, and with a possessive… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
This is ideal, you’ll see. We do everything backward. It’s just how we are. We began with an elopement. After that, we… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Perhaps he would have no title or fortune to offer her, but he was determined to see her safe. Everything he did,… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“I’m so sorry,” he said between kisses. “For what I said that night. For leaving you earlier. I never meant-“ “I know,”… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Love was nothing but a lie people told themselves. But lust? Lust was real, and he was feeling it. Feeling it to… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“She was so desperate to love and be loved, she could sprout tender feelings toward a rock. And rocks didn’t call her… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“So I will just tell you I love you. I love you, Bram. I want everyone to see it, and I want… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Agitated, he hooked a finger under his neck cloth and pulled it loose. “Care for her,” he muttered. “How could that be… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“You’re my home, Susanna. My home, my heart, my dearest love. Wherever you are, that’s where I belong. Always.” - Victor Bramwell,… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Then she sighed. Just the faintest, softest release of breath. The sound swept through his chest like a hurricane, with the force… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“No man deserves a woman like that. He mortgages his very soul to win her and spends his life paying off the… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“This explains so much," she said, clucking her tongue in mother-hen fashion. "You're compensating for this withered appendage." Withered appendage? What the devil was… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“You think a few features scattered on your face make you plain? I am ugly to the core. All England knows it. And after… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“I’d be more than happy to let you survey my physical perfection in its entirety. But only if I get to see you, too.”… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Words for everyday showers of prettiness, and the kind of misty loveliness that disappears whenever you try to grasp it. Beauty that’s heralded by… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“ The captain? Sophia stood staring numbly after him. Had he just said he’d introduce her to the captain? Of someone else was the… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Madeline stood before him in a gown of rich, emerald-green silk. The low-cut bodice did miraculous things for her bosom, and the vibrant color… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“And she was well-enough acquainted with loneliness to understand that the worst part wasn't having nobody caring for you - it was having nobody… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“He stood in the doorway to a side chamber, bared to the waist and dripping. He propped one shoulder against the doorway and clutched… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“And you claim to be feeling this way. Floatish. Singsong-ish. About me.” She sighed. “Yes.” “That’s absurd.” “I know, but I can’t seem to… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“No, of course she didn't say it. But there is no other reason she should have called, except to pave the way for her… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“And there it was. The prim face of censure he’d been seeking. A strange sense of satisfaction descended on him. Divine justice, perhaps. Other… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Another sketch-this one of Gabriel-hung on the all above the water cask. It swiveled gently on a single tack; or rather, the paper hung… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
