Main courses include the ultramoist roast pork (perfect with a squeeze of lime) and camarones al ajillo, shrimp in spicy garlic sauce.

If she finds out I'm investigating Eler, she'll bust a gasket.

With a skitter of excitement, Marcy glanced at the clock on the parlor mantel. It chimed ten, and her gaze flicked to the face of her husband as he lounged in his favorite chair with a newspaper in his lap.

[M]eans must be taken first to create a series of solitary waves, and then to make these waves act as carrier waves, transporting the sounds from the instrument to the ear at a distance. In other words, the operation carried on in the instrument differs from the operation carried on through the air and from the effect delivered by the carrier wave.