The captain of this sailing vessel has requested a private audience with you in his quarters. It seems you’ve a treasure map hidden on your person, and I mean to explore every inch of you until it is discovered.

Olivia Parker

Stichwörter: love suggestion flirt



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You are beautiful and humble and sensitive and the keeper of my heart.
I know it will take some time, growing up with a beast of a guardian as you did, but there will come a day when you no longer criticize yourself, no longer believe less of yourself, and you will come to love yourself just as much as I love you.
Well, almost as much, I imagine.


-Gabriel Devine, Duke of Wolverest-

Olivia Parker

Stichwörter: love



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It took nearly a year to finish the ever-changing [marriage candidates] list, with the assistance of his sister and his aging spinster aunt, who lorded over their affairs as the self-appointed voice of cultivated reason. During this time, Gabriel struggled to convince straight-from-Oxford Tristan that he must marry, produce heirs, and maintain the family dukedom for Gabriel himself wouldn't marry. He knew he simply did not have the compulsion to inflict that sort of aggravation on a woman.

Olivia Parker

Stichwörter: humor men marriage



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By some miracle, Charlotte's polite smile never wavered. It was a proud moment for her. After all, it wasn't every day that a little old lady told you right to your face that your bosom was as flat as a flounder.

Olivia Parker

Stichwörter: humor historical charlotte regency-england to-wed-a-wicked-earl



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He did not blame them. Because in truth, that's what he did, what he was. Seduce and dominate. Charm and manipulate. A user of women. How they would scoff, Rothbury mused bitterly, if they knew that he was secretly in love with the silly little chit, spectacles and all.

Olivia Parker

Stichwörter: love romance rothbury to-wed-a-wicked-earl



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What have I done to her?" Gabriel muttered to himself as he crossed the room to crank open a window. Cool air washed over his skin. "What the devil did she do to me?

Olivia Parker

Stichwörter: romance infatuation historical-romance self-talk confused at-the-bride-hunt-ball



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Those aren't from my mother's garden, are they? She'll throttle you."
"No," he said, making a grand show of looking insulted. "I would never."
"Sorry," she said with a cringe.
"They're from your neighbor's garden, actually.

Olivia Parker

Stichwörter: humor inspirational



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See. I told you I would get that boy to the alter eventually. All I had to do was pretend I was a loon.

Olivia Parker

Stichwörter: humor love inspirational-life



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I mean, I'm happy to see you, but why aren't you home?"
"Wherever my wife sleeps is my home.

Olivia Parker

Stichwörter: inspirational love



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Indeed, Gabriel knew it wasn't all just empty green fields of moorland grass for miles around. Tucked within the wide landscapes of these uplands was an unpredictability that a less observant person might never be aware of. There were waterfalls concealed in swaths of wilderness, rocky stream beds ramblings in deep valleys, and...knotted sheets?

Olivia Parker

Stichwörter: humor inspirational



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