“He shook his head, staring at her like a condemned man who beheld the face of his executioner. "Aline," he whispered, "Do you know what hell is?""Yes." Her eyes overflowed. "Trying to exist with your heart living somewhere outside your body.""No. It's knowing that you have so little faith in my love, you would have condemned me to a lifetime of agony." His face contorted suddenly. "To something worse than death.”

American author of historical and contemporary romance novels

Lisa Kleypas is an American author of historical and contemporary romance novels. She is known for writing in both of those romance genres, and for her work as a novelist. Before turning to fiction full time, she was named Miss Massachusetts 1985 and went on to compete in the Miss America 1986 pageant in Atlantic City. Her public profile comes from both pageantry and her later career as a romance writer.