“Do not be so ridiculous, I can more easily find you someone else.” Gripping the bars of his prison so strongly that the bones of his knuckles showed prominently through his pale skin, the monster growled again, “I will have no other.” Nearing the end of his patience, Klaus demanded, “Why? Why are you being so impossible?” Turning to the diminutive creature beneath the blanket, he smiled nastily, his light red eyes gleaming, “Because he wants her.” LoveRomanceHorrorMonstersThrillerSuspenseHeroesYoung Adult SeriesYa Series Book:Filter Source: Filter
“My heart, for unknown reasons, seems to freeze in motion in my chest. I can see he senses it and he holds his pause to enjoy my suffering, prolonging my ignorance. “Viktor, what?” RomanceDarkMysteryThrillerSecretsGothicFamily SagaVon StrassenbergGwenn WrightBluestocking GirlViktor Book:The BlueStocking Girl Source: The BlueStocking Girl
“For a moment she believed he had left, but as she shifted away from the wall she sensed him there beside the bed. He was very close. Wretched curiosity! But she would fight it and not look. “Katherine,” he whispered, his breath rolling in a warm wave across her cheek. A traitor tear spilled out, the humiliation was too much to contain. Gently, a finger dabbed the wetness from her skin. He said it again, softly, as though it pleased him just to say it, “Katherine.” “Viktor!” the accented voice bellowed from below. And then the shadow was gone. Darkness overwhelmed her then and carried her away to a land of crows and mocking strangers.” LoveRomanceThrillerTragicRomantic SuspenseYoung Adult SeriesYoung Adult Readers Author:Gwenn Wright
“We ran on the fuel of youth and hormones and ignorant arrogance, imagining we had the whole world and the workings thereof figured out.” MysteryYaThrillerSuspenseFamily SagaVon StrassenbergWilliam Drexler The Third Book:The BlueStocking Girl Source: The BlueStocking Girl
“My life is hard. No one would rob me of that. The clothes I am wearing came out of a knotted up black plastic trash bag from a resale shop downtown. And not the downtown where shiny cars wink at you in the sunlight. If a car winks at you in this area it’s being driven by a person you would be best to avoid. My side of downtown is crumbling and skirted by chain link fences. --Rocky Evans” RomanceYoung AdultYaThrillerUrbanTeenRomantic SuspenseHistorical RomanceFamily Saga Book:Filter Source: Filter
“You may suppose that perhaps this Walter T. Wallace found his destiny in food and passed down to his progeny a legacy like that of the great Colonel Sanders. The folks here in Wallace County would love to be able to tell you this is so. But no, like their granddaddy, the Wallace men were thievin’ crooks, always with a scheme ready to separate the weak from their hard-earned money.” MysteryCollegeMurderYoung AdultYaThrillerSuspenseSouthern LitOzarks Book:Midnight Beneath the Magnolia Source: Midnight Beneath the Magnolia
“All I know is that the fear I have been battling all night is breaking down the door of my ignorance. As my feet slam down I feel not the hard, wet asphalt but the soft Persian rug that led to the staircase in my father’s home. In the glow of lightning the dancing trees are illuminated but I see my mother in the glow of candlelight, spinning, twirling, her hair fanned out behind her. It is falling over me, saturating my thoughts, and I cannot. I cannot let it in.” MysteryDanceYaThrillerTeenMidwestSagaVon StrassenbergGwenn WrightSt LouisBluestocking GirlWilliam Drexler Book:The BlueStocking Girl Source: The BlueStocking Girl