With This Kiss: The Complete Collection

clamped together, her hands shaking. She couldn’t bring herself to speak. She didn’t belong here, in this too-­bright room full of ­people speaking too loudly. She should

shared with Lily, but a waltz in which every touch fired his blood. Because it was a dream, a laudanum dream, suddenly they were at Almack’s surrounded by pretty ladies. Yet all the women faded into

it.” James hesitated, but it had to be said. “He’s overlooking Grace.

want appreciation. She was old enough to know exactly what she did want.
“Perhaps

pronounced.
Her family flew from their chairs

y to Arbor House, so the lad can’t be too badly off.”