This feeling, this tentative flutter in her belly - this was hers. This was sunlight on her face. It was the warmth she'd dreamed of. It was a curl of honest attraction, the first she'd experienced in years.

“Jess again. Mark had called her Jessica. As if she were a full person, not a tr…”

“Ned waved him off and studied the map in front of him. That sense of unease rem…”

“When his eyes rested on her, he stopped. He’d been smiling before, in a friendl…”

“They want a woman who is a canvas, white and empty. Standing still, existing fo…”