Danielle Ellis

“You think your predecessors never made mistakes?” he asked, then swiftly answered his own question. “Of course they did. Our nation’s history is woven from their errors in judgment, their wrong decisions, as much as it is from their achievements.”
― Katharine McGee, American Royals

“Yes, sir,” she said, clearly not believing him. He reminded himself that a man’s word didn’t count for much in this modern day.”
― Patricia Briggs, Alpha & Omega

“Why the rolling pin and not a knife?” he asked, his voice raspy with the need for action. She looked at him for the first time since she’d seen his face on the stairs. “A knife wouldn’t even slow him down, but bones take time to heal.” He liked that. Who’d have thought he’d get turned on by a woman with a rolling pin? “All right,” he said. “All right.”
― Patricia Briggs, Alpha & Omega

“She could smile until the bitter end, no matter what it cost her--because she was a Washington and had been trained to smile through anything.
Even through her own heartbreak.”
― Katharine McGee, American Royals