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Goodness! It's August already! Why is it the older you get, the faster time flies? Crazy!

With summer coming to an end, do you have plans for the final hurrah? 

I had a great trip to SaSS. I ended up on a panel that was supposed to be about Behind the Scenes. I thought we'd get questions like what's our writing schedule or how do we come up with ideas. The first question as what was our favorite sexy bit that we'd written. 

I know sexy bits are titillating, but my favorite ones are chock full of emotion as well. The response I gave on the panel was the first sex scene in Dead But Not Forgotten when Jack and Tess come together even though he still has amnesia. It's filled with his worry that he's not doing it right since he can't remember what she likes, and both are hoping the intimacy will jog his memory. 

My favorite bit in that book though is when Jack tells her he can't remember their first kiss or first time they made love, but he knows in his heart...his soul...that he loves her. I love sappy stuff like that!

But there are plenty of other sexy and sappy bits in all my books. It's hard to choose just one.

Do you have favorite scenes from books?

It made me wonder if you remember favorite sexy or sappy bits from books you read? For example, I love in JD Robb's Glory In Death (it's book 2 in the series) when she and Roarke are at odds and it's about to blow apart and she finally tells him she's wearing his dumb diamond and he confesses that he was about to drop to his knees. It doesn't sound great describing it here, but it was full of tension and angst and...swoon. By the way, if you haven't read JD Robb, start with Naked in Death. It's book one where you meet Eve and Eve meets Roarke. 

Another sappy bit I love is Wentworth's letter in Jane Austen's Persuasion. Here's an excerpt:

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago.

Yeah, I never get tired of that. In fact, while I don't ever re-read books, I will go back through them to my favorite scenes. 

How about you? Are there scenes from books you've read that stick with you and you go back and read? I'd be curious to know about them.