Kissing Day Blogfest!

I LOVE romance and I think I can speak for most romance readers that the kiss is it! personally I like the tentative first kisses shared by characters who may not be sure how they really feel about a person but when their lips meet their souls meld whether they chose to acknowledge it at first or not.

Sherrinda @ A Writer Wannabe had an awesome idea to acknowledge the upcoming Christmas season, which often includes the tradition of kissing under the mistletoe, by sharing our favorite kissing scene or "almost" kissing scene that we have read or written ourselves. She has declared today Kissing Day!!!!!!!!

Since I'm not a writer I decided to share one of my favorite "first" kisses from one of my favorite Christian fiction books to date, A Passion Denied (Book 3, Daughters of Boston series) by Julie Lessman! Let me tell you, Julie sure knows how to write a kissing scene!!! Check this scene out from pg 62 of A Passion Denied and you'll see what I mean!!

If you would like to read other kissing scenes or to post your own please stop by and visit Sherrinda's site to check out all the links to other posts and rules for posting your own scene!


Excerpt from pgs 62-63 of A Passion Denied (Book 3, Daughters of Boston) by Julie Lessman, Copyright 2009, Revell Publishers, 476 pages, ISBN: 978-0-8007-3213-4, Fiction/Historical


" 'Beth are we okay?' He ducked his head to search her eyes, then brushed her hair back from her face. A smile shadowed his lips. 'Still friends?'

Friends. A deadly plague only a kiss could cure. Resolve stiffened her spine. 'Sure, Brady...friends."

He smiled and tucked a finger under her chin. 'That's my girl. Now what do you say we pray about some of these things?'

He leaned close with another quick kiss to her brow, and in a desperate beat of her heart, she lunged, uniting her mouth with his. She felt the shock of her action in the jolt of his body, and she gripped him close to deepen the kiss. Waves of warmth shuddered through her at the taste of him, and the essence of peppermint was sweet in her mouth.

'No!' He wretched back from her hold with disbelief in his eyes.

Too late. She had never felt like this before. Years of seeking romance from flat parchment pages had not prepared her for this. This rush,this desire...her body suddenly alive, and every nerve pulsing with need. All shyness melted away in the heat of her longing, and she pounced again, merging her mouth with his. John Brady, I love you!

A fraction of a second became eons as she awaited his rejection. His body was stiff with shock, but no resistance came. And in a sharp catch of her breath, he drew her to him with such force that she gasped, the sound silenced by the weight of his mouth against hers. He groaned and cupped the back of her head as if to delve into her soul, a man possessed. His lips broke free to wander her throat, and shivers of hear coursed through her veins. In ragged harmony, their shallow breathing billowed into the night while his arms possessed her, molding her body to his.

'Oh, Brady, I'm so in love with you,' she whispered.

Her words severed his hold as neatly as the blade of a guillotine. He staggered to his feet, and icy cold replaced the warmth of his arms. 'Brady, can't you see? You love me too...not as a friend or a sister, but as a woman.'

'God help me, Beth, I can't love you that way.' He stared like a zombie, chest heaving with jagged breaths that swirled into the cool night air, drifting away--just like her dreams...' "

*SIGH* don't you just love...well...love?! I think this is such a romantic scene of first love and also a love denied. The whole series is really great! You can always depend on Julie to write out a great kiss and an overall great story!

Thank you for stopping by and be sure to visit Sherrinda to see who else is falling in love!