“I've crossed a world of sand and tears in search of you.” — V.S. Carnes Inspirational Copy Share Image
“La mu’axsa, but I think I’ll just keep sliding down this greased pole to hell?” — V.S. Carnes Hell Copy Share Image
“He wanted to die. He prayed for it. Through the roar in his ears, he begged for it.” — V.S. Carnes Death Copy Share Image
“Kas was right: a woman could destroy a man. This one could do so, simply by knowing his name. She could do… — V.S. Carnes Christian Copy Share Image
“Caine was a murderer. A liar. A cad. A skulker in shadows and a heartless wretch. What sort of woman or God… — V.S. Carnes Christian Copy Share Image
“He heard the voice that had called to him in dreams, had saved him from the sands and from following his brother… — V.S. Carnes Christian Copy Share Image
“Somehow, I did not finger you for a treasure-hunter.” “Oh, but I am,” without shame. “Her name is Titianni Aziz.” — V.S. Carnes Love Copy Share Image
“She’d said she loved him. She'd put that impossible, unimaginably beautiful gift in his hands and he’d thrown it back at her.… — V.S. Carnes Heart Copy Share Image
“Kent steepled his fingers in consideration. Blood-red rubies flashed in the sunlight, like the eyes of a demon clutched in his hands.” — V.S. Carnes Demon Copy Share Image
“Caine might have smiled at her, had his heart not been breaking to smithereens inside of him.” — V.S. Carnes Heart Copy Share Image
“Looking back at him was a man who was battered and broken. And alive, for the first time in his life.” — V.S. Carnes Battered Copy Share Image
“Caine usually woke from the recurring dream mid-air, having yet to be dashed upon the rocks, whimpering and panting like a child… — V.S. Carnes Children Copy Share Image
“She might not bring much gold from a fat pasha locally, but there are men in Israel who would pay handsomely for… — V.S. Carnes Love Copy Share Image
“I remember every good thing about you. Every sweet and perfect thing. And nothing else.” He touched her chin, tipped it up… — V.S. Carnes Brown eyes Copy Share Image
“He smelled the salt on his own lips and the orange blossoms in her hair. Real ones, he could see now, tucked… — V.S. Carnes Christian Copy Share Image
“She was a little thing, too, inciting that basic compulsion in him as a man to protect her in so hectic a… — V.S. Carnes Christian Copy Share Image
“She wondered how a man could look into a woman’s eyes and lie so completely, so convincingly. She wondered how he could… — V.S. Carnes Blind faith Copy Share Image
“Southern gentleman,” he said aside to him in Arabic. “Do you wish for me to continue this for you?” Caine’s temper shifted… — V.S. Carnes Friendship Copy Share Image
“In a land that knew only dark beauty, she was something of a hybrid no one dared touch. But the tall Arab… — V.S. Carnes Arab Copy Share Image
“She was an extension of his dreams. A sprinkling of magic dust, of unfeasible wishes, on his stable existence. The one thing-the… — V.S. Carnes Christian Copy Share Image
“What she knew was sand and wind and innumerable stars. The rumble in a camel’s throat as it swayed over shifting dunes,… — V.S. Carnes Christian Copy Share Image
“He had always prided himself on his ability to bargain, to bluff, to contain his ever-aching heart within the folds of his… — V.S. Carnes Black pearl Copy Share Image
“The blood dried on his good hand, he passed his palm over her hair. It curled about his wrist and sprung back… — V.S. Carnes Dandelions Copy Share Image
“I know I am flaky, I accept that—and I know, as well, that I can mangle the good king’s English like no… — V.S. Carnes Bitterness Copy Share Image
“There are still many souls to be won for Christ,” she answered with quiet dignity, eyes downcast—but not, he figured, in humility.… — V.S. Carnes God Copy Share Image
“There will always be another war, Gillia.” He allowed his cynicism to seep through. “Do you know why? Because there will always… — V.S. Carnes Bigots Copy Share Image
“My name, sir, is Virgilia Wessex. I am a Sunday school teacher from Sussex, England, and I have given you no leave… — V.S. Carnes Love Copy Share Image
“Are you in the habit of taking tea with anyone who approaches you in a foreign port?” He went on and snorted… — V.S. Carnes Abduction Copy Share Image
“He didn’t deserve compassion. Sympathy. Not even understanding. He deserved worse, far worse than he had ever been given.” — V.S. Carnes Compassion Copy Share Image
“Kent had begun sleeping with his good eye open, for he knew the mark of sedition when he saw it. Even partway… — V.S. Carnes Blinded Copy Share Image
“This man was no servant. She looked up at him in acute agitation and knew: this man was now her master.” — V.S. Carnes Christian Copy Share Image
“I will not marry Ashton. However bound by honor to do so, I will not marry Ashton. I will not marry, ever!”… — V.S. Carnes Love Copy Share Image
“Oh, Lord, why was she doomed to adore a man steeped in blindness and utter stupidity?” — V.S. Carnes Christian Copy Share Image
“When silence greeted her question, she looked at Caine—for that was how he saw himself in that moment and in all the… — V.S. Carnes Brother Copy Share Image
“Better this way, what remained of his battered sensibilities told him. He was no good for her, anyway. She didn’t understand him.… — V.S. Carnes Cursed Copy Share Image
“And what was to become of what he had taken from her? He had dashed her heart to the ground and danced… — V.S. Carnes Betrayal Copy Share Image
“He’d thought it would be the right thing to say, but she scoffed a little… and that, more than anything—more than the… — V.S. Carnes Bitterness Copy Share Image
“I stole you, among others, from the streets of God’s birthplace. I forced you to work as a slave. Imprisoned, mistreated and… — V.S. Carnes Fiction Copy Share Image
