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Tessa Dare is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling American historical romance novelist. She has authored fifteen novels and novellas and created four different series. In 2012, she won the prestigious Romance Writers of America RITA award for Best Regency Historical Romance for her book A Night to Surrender.

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You’re like a gift,” he said, his voice rough. “All wrapped up for someone else. A man can’t look at you, but think of loosing those bows, one by one.

Like, Men, Rough, Thinking, Voice, Wrapped

Certainty becomes you.

Becomes, Certainty

He quietly groaned. Again and again, he’d witnessed this phenomenon with his friends. They got married. They were happy in that sated, grateful way of infrequently pleasured men with a now-steady source of coitus. Then they went about crowing as if they’d invented the institution of matrimony and stood to earn a profit for every bachelor they could convert.

Crowing, Grateful, Hed, Institution, Men, Way

She’d always wondered what it would feel like to stand on one end of a ballroom and watch a handsome, powerful man make his way to her. This was as close as she’d ever come to it, she supposed. Standing at Diana’s side. Imagining.

Close, Men, Powerful, Watch, Watches, Way

Forgive me, Your Grace. Are you suggesting a woman is some sort of … piece of fruit to you? One squeeze, and you know if she’s ripe?

Forgive Me, Forgiving, Grace, Shes, Squeeze

After spending all of her girlhood fervently wishing she could run away from home— she’d actually done it.

Fervently, Girlhood, Home, Running, Wish

Oh no. Oh God. I couldn't possibly be so stupid. " "Don't limit yourself. You can be anything you wish.

Limit, Limits, Possibly, Stupid, Wish

This is true valor, I hope you know. Legends have sprung from less. All Lancelot did was paddle about in a balmy lake. ” She smiled. “Lancelot was a knight. You’re a viscount. The bar is higher.

Bars, Higher, Knights, Lakes, Legends, Viscount

This is the normal way with birthdays, see? Amazingly enough, they arrive on the same day, every year.

Birthdays, Enough, Normal, Way, Years

I’m so sorry to disappoint you,” she said, breathing hard. “But it would take far more than that to scare me. ” A quick flex of his arms, and their bodies collided. And he whispered, just as his mouth fell on hers, “God, I was hoping you’d say that.

Arms, Breathing, Quick, Said, Scare, Sorry

Dedication: For all the girls who walk and read at the same time.

Dedication, Girl, Girls, Read, Same, Walks

Your breasts are alabaster orbs. ' "What?" Rufus objected. "That's stupid. I'm not saying that. " "Do you have some better suggestion?" "Why can't you just say she's got a fair set of titties?

Alabaster, Orbs, Stupid, Suggestion, Suggestions

You are a sweet man. " -"God, there it is. " He flopped back on the bed, as if shot through the heart. "Repeat that to anyone, and I will have you brought up on charges of slander. " "I wouldn't dream of telling a soul.

Back, Dream, Flopped, Heart, Sweet

She stared at him, horrified. And thrilled. And horrified at being thrilled.

Horrified, Stared, Thrilled

One more minute of this, and she’d be a certifiable simpleton.

Certifiable, Minute, Minutes, Shed, Simpleton, Simpletons

He kissed her. Without warning, without permission. Without even deciding to do it, but simply because he couldn't have done anything else. He needed that breath she was holding. It belonged to him, and he wanted it back.

Back, Done, Permission, Simply, Warning

I know how mirrors work. They're all in league with the cosmetics trade. They tell a woman lies. Drawing her gaze from one imagined flaw to another, until all she sees is a constellation of imperfections. If you could get outside yourself, borrow my eyes for just an instant. . . There is only beauty.

Eye, Instant, Lying, Mirrors, Tell, Woman

This is ideal, you’ll see. We do everything backward. It’s just how we are. We began with an elopement. After that, we made love. Next, we’ll progress to courting. When we’re old and silver-haired, perhaps we’ll finally get around to flirtation. We’ll make fond eyes at each other over our mugs of gruel. We’ll be the envy of couples half our age.

Couple, Envy, Eye, Fond, Old

I never thought Greek philosophy could make a damn bit of sense to me. And most of it didn't, but those words just seemed right. 'Love is composed of a single soul, inhabiting two bodies. '" He took her by the shoulders drawing her close. "It rang true for me, in a way nothing else did. Whatever soul I had, Katie, I think I placed it in your keeping twenty years ago. And now, it's as if. . . every time we kiss, you give a little piece of it back.

Back, Bodies, I Love You, Kissing, Philosophy, Soul

He was right. They could have a whole conversation without exchanging a word. And the conversation they had right now went like this: Colin, shut it. I don’t think I will, M. Then I’ll make you. Really? How?I’m not certain, but it will be slow and painful. And I won’t leave any evidence.

Colin, Conversation, Leave, Painful, Thinking, Whole

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