"The motorcycle’s headlights cut through the darkness. Ahead the road was nothing but a black hole. She roared toward it."
- B.J. Daniels
"He couldn’t jeopardize the saloon because of some silly infatuation with an outlaw. Even one as beautiful as Mariah Ayers."
"Remember what I told you about family secrets.” People will kill to keep them, she thought now as she looked at Marianne McGraw. The woman’s rocking didn’t change as Nikki stepped deeper into the room..."
"The snow in the mountains had changed everything. Frank swore as he listened on the phone to the head of search and rescue describing the conditions they'd run into on the other side of the Crazies. "..."
"Hell, I've always like the man," he said now. "Until he became involved with my wife."
"Jace watched as the moon rose over the pines and scattered the mountainside with fool's gold. He rested against a large tree trunk as he leaned back into the dark shadow of the boughs and kicked himse..."
"What will your family think, me showing up on their doorstep with my suitcase in hand?""I'll carry your suitcase," he said."
"Don’t you want to know the kind of woman I am?”When he said nothing, she continued. “I’m like your father. When I start something I finish it.”Cull seemed to consider that before he turned toward her,..."
"I have a suspicious mind, and murder is kind of my business."
"As she reached the stairs, she made a quick detour and stepped outside. A crescent moon hung in the midnight blue sky along with trillions of twinkling stars. Out here there were no streetlights to wa..."