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Today's passage comes from "Wolf at the Door" by Christine Warren, a novel that's all about what happens when danger meets desire.

Cassidy gloried in the consuming pleasure of being claimed by her mate. She answered the stroke with a feral cry and clamped down around him as the first wave of spasms took over, shaking her like prey in the jaws of a hungry beast.

Poetic language at its best.