The weekend hadn’t turned out exactly as Detective Heat had imagined, but now nothing, not even another murder on the beach, could stop her from getting exactly what she desired most.
"Over the past few years I’ve watched as someone very close to me has dealt with the immense pressure of a case that hits close to home. The wrestling match between personal and professional responsibilities is enough to destroy most people. Only exceedingly strong ones are capable of persevering through it. That courage needs to be broadcast. People need to know that heroes like that exist. I can only hope that Nikki lives up to her inspiration’s inimitable model."
You never told him how you stood in line for an hour just to get your book signed? How his novels got you through your mother’s death?
Something else happened over time and togetherness. It deepened into what began to feel to Nikki like a Real Deal that was headed somewhere.
Heat Rises by Richard Castle, Chapter 1
Something like that.
You never told him how you stood in line for an hour just to get your book signed? How his novels got you through your mother’s death?
…she ran the tap to revitalize the bubbles in her tub, allowing herself one of her few indulgences, a bubble bath… floated, weightless in the cooling water, and let herself wonder what it would be like with Jameson Rook. What would he be like? How would he feel and taste and move?
And then the flutter hit her again. What would she be like with him? It made her nervous. She didn’t know.
It was a mystery.
Heat Wave by Richard Castle, Chapter 6
what are you gonna do? lip gloss ‘em to death?
something like that.
