Marie Burton

“Em,” he said without looking up from his work, after I had snuck yet another glance in his direction, “either you are plotting how best to have me murdered and stuffed for one of your exhibits, or you are still concerned that I am bewitched. You are so contrary that I would not be surprised by both concurrently. Perhaps you could set my nerves at ease.”
― Heather Fawcett, Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

“What I already knew was that Tom Marner wanted to marry Leah and take her to Australia and, as she could not be parted from her daughter, Belinda, she confessed to what had happened.”
― Philippa Carr, The Black Swan

“She dipped a piece of bread in her stew, her full mouth playfully smirking in that way so dear to him. “And”
― Andrea Catalano, The First Witch of Boston

“He was a forceful man, distinguished in appearance; his entire being emanated power. Ambition had been the driving force of his life. There was a ruthless streak in his nature and a recklessness which at times had led him into dangerous situations. Such men rarely pass through life untouched by scandal. I sometimes wondered whether my mother, if she had lived, would have managed to subdue that side of his nature.”
― Philippa Carr, The Black Swan