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“Largely to spare his feelings, she’d spoken in rather vague terms about wanting to “find herself,” and Yates concluded that she’d become a “womens’-libbing…

— Blake Bailey

“Parking himself on the chaise lounge, he stared at the gown that Lassiter had handled so roughly. The fine satin was bunched up in…

— J.R. Ward

“As long as your father's alive, you aren't yet the duchess. All that deference isn't truly warranted, is it?" In an oppressive tone, Lady…

— Christina Dodd

“Some of the more superstitious townsfolk even believed she was a witch. The fact that she had four dead husbands lined up in a…

— K. Martin Beckner

“Annabelle, what happened to you?” Lillian asked the next morning. “You look dreadful. Why aren’t you wearing your riding habit? I thought you were…

— Lisa Kleypas

“That was the problem with modern day witches , thought Corso : they didn't have any secrets . Everything was out in the open…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

“It was a strange thing. So many people on Gorse lived in fear—especially Sullustans and others of smaller stature. Yet working with the Mynocks,…

— John Jackson Miller

“And here, she said to herself, is the victim of the witch hunt, or its modern equivalent. Not much has changed. Witchcraft or sexual…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“This embittered thought brought to her mind the several occasions upon which she might, had she been the kind of female his lordship no…

— Georgette Heyer

“The chairs - turned towards one another in groups of twos and threes - seemed like the seats of ghosts in close conversation with…

— Baroness Emmuska Orczy

“This wasn’t what she expected. Never, in her wildest dreams. This... this was the Blood Queen of Garbhán Isle? Scourge of the Madron lands?…

— G.A. Aiken

“We’ll join the trial already in progress; Bridget has just been asked by Judge Hathorne to talk about how she bewitched the girls of…

— Susan Fair