Cara McKinnon

The woman was not what would be termed an exquisite, or what his grandfather__ generation would have styled __ diamond of the first water._ There was something too primal in her features and her bearing, and her aura shimmered with power. She was a sunset on a mountain peak, or the eerie colors in the sky in the far north of Scotland. She was a vein of gold still glittering inside the rock, her treasure clear but held close, in her own keeping.She would never belong to anyone but herself, and that made him long for her to share that self with him__n every conceivable way.