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Topics for Discussion

1. When Maura flees the gynecologist's office, she thinks she's ended the chance for Xan to be the supervising physician in her new midwife practice. Considering her attraction to him, how else could she have handled the situation?

2. Xan next encounters Maura delivering Annie's baby. Did he do the right thing by allowing her to continue without interfering? Are you surprised that he took that attitude considering his belief that hospital births are superior to home births?

3. When Xan kisses Maura for the first time, it's her first kiss in 10 years. Considering that, were you surprised that she couldn't get more into it?

4. When Maura hears her sister and brother-in-law making love, she reflects on how nice it must be to be married. Do you think that this scene opens the way for her to start wanting to be intimate with Xan?

5. Maura is freshly out of a convent. How would the attentions of a virile and attentive man help her to discover facets of her sexuality that had long been ignored?

6. Maura's journey to self-discovery—does Xan play too big a part in it? Why or why not?

7. Xan believed he was doing Maura a favor by getting her an appointment with Dr. Lyles to discuss a birthing room at Quinby Hospital. Did he overreact when she refused to be a labor coach there?

8. Did Maura wait too long to tell Xan the truth about her past?

9. How do you feel about men being in the room when their partners give birth?

10. Would you want members of your family other than your mate present in the room when you're giving birth? Or do you feel it should be a private experience between the baby's father and mother? Why?

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Fragrant honeysuckle, sweet and languorous, dipped in bunches and swirls between the bars of the trellis, separating them. But slowly, their movements seemingly inhibited by the heavy air around them, they moved toward each other, first wanting, then seeking. They met before a great loop of flowers, cool and edged with green, and she saw that his eyes, cupped by their lower lids, now revealed a new sultriness. Her own lids felt heavy, and she wondered what she must look like to him.

Self-consciousness vanished as he dipped his head toward hers through the loop of honeysuckle and caught her mouth with his.

She didn't know which was the more prominent sensation—that of honeysuckle framing their faces, wrapping them in fragrance, or Ponce Cabrera's lips touching hers for the first time. But then there was no question; his lips won, first tentative, finding her out, discovering the contours of her own lips now totally possessed by his.

Then, more confidently, he moved upon her mouth with such tenderness, with such knowing and wanting, that even the honeysuckle faded away into the night, leaving her aware of nothing but the warm moistness of his lips, so amazingly, unbelievably sensual and desirable. This one kiss seemed to lift her into a suspended world, a place where skin tingled, where sensation spread from the confluence of their lips and melted through her, diffusing hotly through her body.

The sweet fruity scent of honeysuckle brought forth a ripeness within her; she burgeoned, swelled, grew impatient for the picking.

His lips released hers, and impatiently he brushed the encircling branch of honeysuckle away. He stood before her now, and his arms went around her in a singularly possessive gesture, pressing the full length of her to his hard, masculine body. Then he was kissing her again, and this was no tentative, romantic kiss; this was a kiss of power and might, of passion and promise, of forthright desire. And she clung to him, not denying her own answering passion, wondering if she had lost her mind. She ceased to smell the cloying scent of honeysuckle—her nostrils, her whole being, filled with the musky male scent of Ponce Cabrera.

"You know I want you?" The question was sharp, direct, and for a moment she buried her face in his broad chest, drawing her hands forward and resting them on his shoulders, noting the little knobs beneath the skin there, protrusions of the bone. There must be other little secrets that his body held, small deviations from the norm; everyone had those little differences, whether they were moles, odd curves or soft convexes where there should have been hollows.

Would she get to know the idiosyncrasies that distinguished Ponce from the rest of the male populace? Would he learn hers? A blanket of intimacies spread out before her, and she wondered if they would pick it up, wrap it around them and cloak themselves in its warmth.

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