Leona Blair

“She was afloat in bliss, grateful that she had a woman's body to tell him what words could not.”

“She loved him. It was a pale description of how she felt, but she could find no other words. To watch him, to hear him, to simply be in the same space with him made her heart sing.”

“(the dog) A warm bundle of copper coat.”

“Her amethysts lay upon her skin like sugared violets on cream.”