Quotes by B.J. Daniels

The motorcycle’s headlights cut through the darkness. Ahead the road was nothing but a black hole. She roared toward it.

He couldn’t jeopardize the saloon because of some silly infatuation with an outlaw. Even one as beautiful as Mariah Ayers.

Remember what I told you about family secrets.” People will kill to keep them, she thought now as she looked at Marianne McGraw. The woman’s rocking didn’t change as Nikki stepped deeper into the room.

The snow in the mountains had changed everything. Frank swore as he listened on the phone to the head of search and rescue describing the conditions theyd run into on the other side of the Crazies. The terrain is too dangerous, Jim Martin said. Even experienced ground crews found many areas too difficult to traverse with the snow. What about the searchers in the helicopters? They should be able to see tracks in the snow once the clouds life. Jim didnt sound optimistic. The storm isnt moving on as fast as the weatherman predicted.

Hell, Ive always like the man, he said now. Until he became involved with my wife.

Jace watched as the moon rose over the pines and scattered the mountainside with fools gold. He rested against a large tree trunk as he leaned back into the dark shadow of the boughs and kicked himself mentally for thinking this was going to be easy. He should have known finding someone as complicated as Bo Hamilton wouldnt be easy.

What will your family think, me showing up on their doorstep with my suitcase in hand?Ill carry your suitcase, he said.

Don’t you want to know the kind of woman I am?”When he said nothing, she continued. “I’m like your father. When I start something I finish it.”Cull seemed to consider that before he turned toward her, his lips quirking into a grin as his eyes blazed with challenge. “Is that right?”Before she could react, he grabbed her and dragged her to him. His mouth dropped to hers in a demanding kiss as he pushed her back against the barn wall.

I have a suspicious mind, and murder is kind of my business.

As she reached the stairs, she made a quick detour and stepped outside. A crescent moon hung in the midnight blue sky along with trillions of twinkling stars. Out here there were no streetlights to wash out the view. She loved being able to see the stars. Tonight, the mountains were etched deep purple against the night sky. The white snowcapped tips gleamed silver. Nearer, silhouetted pine trees swayed in the breeze as if in a slow dance. “You are such a romantic,” Trask had once told her. “Are you sure you want to open a bar? You should be writing poetry.” She’d laughed. “How do you know I don’t?

Ya got to watch them bears, Lillie Girl,” her father said, looking worried, “ ‘specially the renegade ones. They’ll turn you every way but loose.

Lillie woke to darkness an instant before a large warm hand clamped down over her mouth…

The moment Jace Calder saw his sisters face, he feared the worst. His heart sank. Emily, his troubled little sister, had been doing so well since shed gotten the job at the Sarah Hamilton Foundation in Big Timber, Montana. Whats wrong? he asked as he removed his Stetson, pulled up a chair at the Big Timber Java coffee shop and sat down across from her. Tossing his hat on the seat of an adjacent chair, he braced himself for bad news. Emily blinked her big blue eyes. Even though she was closing in on twenty-five, he often caught glimpses of the girl shed been. Her pixie cut, once a dark brown like his own hair, was dyed black. From thirteen on, shed been piercing anything she could. At sixteen shed begun getting tattoos and drinking. It wasnt until shed turned seventeen that shed run away, taken up with a thirty-year-old biker drug-dealer thief and ended up in jail for the first time. But while Emily still had the tattoos and the piercings, shed changed after the birth of her daughter, and after snagging this job with Bo Hamilton. Whats wrong is Bo, his sister said. Bo had insisted her employees at the foundation call her by her first name. Pretty cool for a boss, huh? his sister had said at the time. Hed been surprised. That didnt sound like the woman he knew. But who knew what was in Bos head lately. Four months ago her mother, Sarah, who everyone believed dead the past twenty-two years, had suddenly shown up out of nowhere. According to what hed read in the papers, Sarah had no memory of the past twenty-two years. Hed been worried it would hurt the foundation named for her. Not to mention what a shock it must have been for Bo. Emily leaned toward him and whispered, Bos… Shes gone.

Are we ever getting out of these mountains? she asked without turning to look at him. He moved up behind her and put his arms around her. She leaned back against him. Her hair glistened with melting snow. She felt small in his arms. Were going to get out of here, he whispered as he slowly turned her to face him. Do you trust me? She raised her head to meet his eyes and held his gaze for a long moment. With my life.

Honey, before I became the man who was to marry Olivia Hamilton, I was capable of taking care of myself. I can take care of you, too, for that matter. If you should ever decide to trust me. With that he turned the key. The old pickups engine rumbled to life and he backed out kicking up fresh gravel.Livie bristled. She knew he thought her an overindulged debutante, but there was more to her than just being Buckmaster Hamiltons daughter and damned if she wasnt going to prove it to him. If he gave her the chance.

They rode up a trail until the trees parted and they got their first good view of Lone Peak across the valley and river. This late morning it was breathtaking. The stark peak gleamed against the deep blue of the big sky. No wonder this area had been named Big Sky.