Michael P.

“I didn’t tell you this before, but Mama got pregnant with me when she was a sophomore.” Danny already knew that, of course, but he didn’t say anything. “The only reason I’m even alive is because big man Carlo Pirelli got bored with his wife and wanted to screw a pretty teenage girl. Do you know what it feels like to know that?”

Danny stepped over to her and put his hands on her shoulders. “It makes you think less of yourself, doesn’t it?”
― Daniel Willard, The Mobster's Daughter

“I had such a beautiful evening planned. Candlelight, dancing, maybe a few flirtatious threats. And what do I get? Grand Theft Equine.”
― Jill Bearup, Just Stab Me Now

“This was the problem with using previously conceived characters in a new book. You sometimes forgot important details about them. Like their wives, with whom they had a superbly adventurous courtship and an action-packed marriage, most likely in more ways than one. Caroline watched in despair as the last chance of a love triangle disappeared over the horizon—probably sailing off in the trading ship she’d just remembered Elinor owned—and tried not to sigh.”
― Jill Bearup, Just Stab Me Now

“Indeed, Rosamund’s author seemed to have a talent for ignoring things that didn’t fit in with her bizarre and often clichéd plans.”
― Jill Bearup, Just Stab Me Now