All in a day’s work…
February 12, 2012 | Filed under: Stuff
The scene I’m writing today.
No, not THAT kind of scene. A reunion that’s gut-wrenching and emotional and makes it hard to breathe. If I can pull it off … Because let’s face it, I do better with scenes like the heroine breaking into the hero’s house to steal his potato chips. (The Sweetest Thing) Or a heroine trying to keep her cool with a man when his parrot keeps saying dirty words (Animal Attraction).
While you’re here, tell me quick … what’s a scene you’ve read that has stuck with ya? We all want to know, even if you can’t remember the book title. I’ll be drawing two random winners from today’s post, who will win a copy of Time Out when it releases next week, print or ebook, your choice.
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Kaetrin says:
I just finished re-reading Dirty by Megan Hart – pretty much the whole book stayed with me. But, the scene where Dan tells Elle that the way he sees it scars a proof that we survived is one of my favourites.
Posted on February 12th, 2012 at 9:15 pmRuth says:
One of my very favorite scenes is actually from your book, Head Over Heels, where they’re all around the bonfire and it’s clear that Chloe can’t imagine how anyone could ever love her… and how that broke Sawyer’s heart… that whole scene was so emotional, so poignant because of how much it revealed… and one of my very favorite ever.
Posted on February 12th, 2012 at 9:16 pmPaula A says:
It was a scene from an older book. The heroine goes back in time to find her hero, that she hasn’t seen in twenty years. I was almost chanting for the hero to find her sooner.
Posted on February 12th, 2012 at 9:17 pmAlina D says:
Ok I know this will totally show my Twilight geek side, lol, but the scene where Bella wakes up after their first time together and she asks Edward why she’s covered in feathers. It’s just one of those scenes I love.
Posted on February 12th, 2012 at 9:19 pmCassie Johnson says:
This particular scene stuck out because it was so hilarious!
The book was “Nobody’s Baby but Mine” by Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
Cal (the hero) was a bit child-like in his breakfast of choice and Lucky Charms was his favorite.
He screwed up big time so Jane (the heroine) decided to show him what’s what.
She cuts a hole in the bottom of every single Lucky Charms box and removes all the marshmallows.
Cal comes in the next morning, pours a bowl of cereal.
No marshmallows. Faulty box? Cal thinks so.
He opens a new box. No marshmallows.
He starts opening all the boxes, sure enough, no marshmallows.
He’s ranting & raving about quality control with the company and he’s going to call the CEO & let ‘em have it, yada yada yada.
He goes to his vehicle to leave; front seat full of missing marshmallows!
He storms back in the kitchen where Jane is calmly sitting, drinking her coffee and he proclaims he’s “married a damn cereal killer!”
Soooooo funny!!!
Posted on February 12th, 2012 at 9:20 pmSherie says:
I know the book was written by Susan Donovan but I cannot recall the title right now. But it is the hero looking at his wife in the epilogue and she is pregnant and staring at the family photos. It was a very touching moment and so was the book because of the heros niece’s illness.
Posted on February 12th, 2012 at 9:26 pmJennifer Bledsoe says:
I love Love LOVE the Glittery Hooha scene in Dogs and Goddesses by Jenny Crusie. That and any scene having the clicky pen in it. Nothing like having control over men by the glitter falling from your nether regions as a theory…
Posted on February 12th, 2012 at 9:36 pmLynda the Guppy says:
Julie Garwood’s Saving Grace. When she’s finally faced down the Big Bad Guy, and he goes to strike her, and an arrow comes out of NOWHERE. And the Big Bad Guy looks up and all of Hero’s clan’s warriors are on the balcony surrounding the room, and Hero is standing directly above heroin and calmly notches another arrow.
Also, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince when Harry is chasing Snape down from the Astronomy tower and goes running through the Great Hall and there’s something there about the Gryffindor rubies being spilled across the floor like blood. It’s such a visual moment.
Another HP moment, in Deathly Hallows and they freakin’ RUINED IT in the movie, as I knew they would. In the middle of Bill & Fleur’s wedding, Kingsley’s Patronus comes in “The ministry is fallen. Scrimgour is dead. They are coming.” Gave me chills!
J.D. Robb when Roarke sleeps first.
The end of Devin Mackade’s book by Nora when Gracie proposes to Devin.
Suz Brockmann in All Through The Night when Robin and Jules watch Robin’s promo DVD when they should be at their wedding.
Pretty much all of Linda Howard’s Lake of Dreams. LOL
Kathleen Korbel’s book Simple Gifts where Sgt. Rock O’Connor has had a REALLY BAD DAY, and Lee goes to find him at his house and he’s sitting in the dark staring out the window with his gun on the table next to him.
Sharon Sala’s Roman’s Heart. The scene where the heroine’s plane goes down and there were no survivors. He doesn’t know she missed it.
In fact, don’t get me started on Sala’s books, because we’ll be here all week. LOLOL.
Shall I go on? LOLOL.
Posted on February 12th, 2012 at 9:50 pmMelanie says:
I’m definitely torn between the pier scene with Sawyer and Chloe in Head Over Heels when he tells her about the dirty talking (after hearing here “mule stuck in tar” orgasm
Where they share their first steamy kiss 
Orrrrr the bathroom scene with the two lovebirds also in Head Over Heels when he takes her from behind after painting the bathroom.
I’m gonna have to go read that book again…for thethird time already!!!
Posted on February 12th, 2012 at 9:55 pmDawn says:
Love the scene at the end of “Truly Madly Yours” (Rachel Gibson) when Nick has to convince Delaney he loves her.
Also, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Jax and Maddie in the attic. Both times.
Posted on February 12th, 2012 at 10:00 pmKelly W. says:
Jill, one day you might realize that you are great, no awesome, with every major scene you write. Your craft is phenomenal. You are my Adele of the writing world! Keep being great, and don’t ever change.
Posted on February 12th, 2012 at 10:05 pmStephanie says:
I love the books I read and can remember the general story lines but often have trouble with specific scenes… I do however remember some specific scenes from Julie Jame’s book A Lot Like Love, when the heroine turns off the power to the house to try to help the hero and the hero ends up taking the bad guy through the banister falling two stories to protect her, but my favorite part of it was in the last chapter or epilogue when as the hero is fixing the banister the heroine is sitting to the side ‘helping’ by reading through his collection of books!
Posted on February 12th, 2012 at 10:30 pmLyn says:
The scene that jumped to mind when I read the blog is the one from Simply Irrestible where Maddie flinches when Jax goes to brush her hair away from her face.
Posted on February 12th, 2012 at 10:34 pmI’m sure that there are other scenes that have stuck with me, if I gave myself time to think about it, but this one is the most vivid in my mind.
Erika says:
I am a sucker for Julia Quinn and there is a scene in one of her books where the hero stumbles upon the heroine in a mini-labyrinth garden with another woman and I continually remember it because it made me squirm in my seat. I love a scene that just grabs ahold of you and makes you feel like you are with the heroine in the book trying desperately not to be caught by an old flame with his new lady. Awkward! It’s not a love scene but it was really powerful!
Posted on February 12th, 2012 at 10:38 pmAmanda says:
Oh….there are so many. Every book has at least one that makes me want to read it over and over again. As a shout out to La Nora, the scene in Key of Light where Mallory and Flynn are kissing in the entryway and they are 100% absorbed in each other.
Also, in SEP’s Match me if you Can, when Heath shows up on Annabelle’s doorstep when he is exhausted because he didn’t want to be alone.
Posted on February 12th, 2012 at 11:15 pmAllie says:
Jill, you do great with all types of scenes.
Here are a few of my favorite scenes.
There is one in a book I think you wrote about a woman who is rescued after a tree falls on the house or something. I’d love to know the title of that. I think it was one of three about three women in the same building or something? Or maybe I am mixing it up with another book. I want to read it again. Anyway, the guy comes in through the window or something? Anyway, the woman I think is soaking wet due to rain. The part where the guy appears to rescue her is so great. Love that.
Eve and Roarke on the Statue of Liberty as he diffuses that bomb, after she rescues him from falling, gives me chills.
The end of Harry Potter where Harry is explaining to Al that one of the bravest men he ever knew was in Slytherin.
Stephanie Plum saying “No day ith my day,” in the book One for the Money after having a car accident, after having a bad day. I laugh every time I think of that. I know just how she feels.
When Dragos reads the note from Pia saying she was sorry she had to take his penny and here was one to replace it, in Dragon Bound. Brilliant.
In the short story Alpha and Omega, introducing Charles and Anna. When Charles comes out as a wolf, and curls up on the bed Anna had made for herself, solving the dilemma of who gets the bed. I cheered when I read that.
The end of Hidden by Kelley Armstrong. Loved Kate rushing out the door in delight.
The end of Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones, where Sirius won’t let anyone inhabit his white sphere, and Mrs. Smith is saying “Where there’s need enough, often a way can be found.”
The Grounding of Group 6, by Julian F. Thompson, where you find out just what “grounding” means.
And The Giver, where Jonas starts to see the color red.
Posted on February 12th, 2012 at 11:19 pmRuth says:
Another great scene from a book, an absolute favorite, is in Pamela Clare’s BREAKING POINT and it takes place towards the end of the book, in a hospital. I don’t want to go into details and possibly spoil it for anyone who hasn’t read the book but plans to, but a picture is passed around of a couple of the I-Team men and it brought tears to my eyes… what an amazing moment that was.
Posted on February 12th, 2012 at 11:22 pmdree says:
one scene that has stuck with me is out of FOREVER BLUE by suzanne brockmann.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 4:03 amblue is a really taciturn kind of guy and can’t start a relationship with the policewoman lucy because he is her prime suspect. I have no idea why but I just LOVE the scene where they both sit on the porch before lucy’s house and he tells her things he actually doesn’t want to share because talking is the only opportunity for him to spend some time with her though he isn’t much of a talker.
fell in love with him there
Rachel says:
I have 2 in 2 very different books. The first is in JR Wards Lover Awakened when all the brothers file into the office to tell Tohr that his shellan is dead and he literally goes to pieces & disappears. It brings me to tears every time. The 2nd is in Naked in Death by J D Robb when Roarke turns around in the church and first sees Eve. It stuck with me and when I think of it I immediately think of Roarke and the button he carries. Love it.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 4:08 amStella (Ex Libris) says:
One of my favourite heartbreaking scenes is from Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery: Anne is sitting on the garden steps of her house with Gilbert her childhood best friend, and she dreads his declaration of love because she only loves him as a friend and doesn’t want things to change between them. Gilbert is stunned and heartbroken, he thought she also felt that what was between them was more, a unique bond. This scene marked me because both parties are shaken and heartbroken: him because he realised that he has no hope and that the love of his life doesn’t feel the same way (and she says she never will), and her because she lost her best friend, who has always been there for her to support her, challenge her. One of my favourite scenes, gives me goosebumps and a lump in my throat every time I read about it!
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 4:43 amaida alberto says:
It’s the first one of J.D. Robb’s books when Roarke shows Eve the gray button from her suit that he’s been carrying around with him. I think her heart started dropping then for him. I know mine would.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 5:19 amLozza says:
For “gut-wrenching and emotional and makes it hard to breathe”, but in a very subtle and entirely realistic sort of way, I LOVED Melina Marchetta’s “The Piper’s Son.” I read that book on maternity leave, and between that and post-partum hormones, I was a wreck. It’s beautiful though- an all-time favorite.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 6:13 amSue B says:
Ranger calmly walking into Steph’s apartment knowing Scrog is waiting in Janet Evanovich’s Twelve Sharp. Only time I can ever remember being afraid to turn the page.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 6:21 amLiza says:
Think it is from the 2nd In Death book. Eve going to Roarke after they’ve had a fight and she admits she can’t be without him. She is so broken and all he wants to do is wrap her in his arms, but he lets her say it before telling her he would have come to get her in another couple of hours.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 6:30 amCateS says:
It wasn’t every day a guy saw a headless beaver marching down the side of a road, not even in Chicago Stars quarterback Dean Robillard’s larger-than-life world. She was definitely a girl beaver because her beaver head was missing, revealing sweaty, dark hair pulled into a scraggly ponytail. He’d been praying for a little distraction from his own depressing company, so he threw open the door and stepped out onto the shoulder of the Colorado road …
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 6:55 amSusanne Elizabth Phillips ‘Natural Born Charmer’ had me at the get-go.
MaryAnne says:
The Perfect Bride by Brenda Joyce. Most of the scenes are emotional charged because the hero gave up his son so he may have a better future than the hero could afford to give him. The heroine is a wealthy straight-laced proper heiress who is starting to remember seeing her mother being killed by a mob when she was only six and as the memories slowly return to her she believes she is going mad.
The best scene is when the hero realizes his love for the heroine (ya know…like when the light bulb goes on over his head). And then after they’re married, it is the first time he’s upset he’d lost his leg during the the war because he can’t carry his bride across the threshold…but she tells him to kiss her instead when they get there…(sniff…sniff).
He was a dark, lonely wounded hero who is bigger than life and I loved everything he said or did. He was magic in his grief. In the end the broken characters heal each other.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 7:06 amPaige says:
Seduction of a Highland Lass by Maya Banks when Keeley almost dies. It is heart wrenching. I cried like a baby!
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 7:42 amThanks for the giveaway!
Jillian says:
Scenes…when Harry is told he is a wizard (“Yer a wizard Harry”). Jax is chopping wood wearing only a henley and jeans, while Maddie watches (I can just imagine how sexy Jax would be!) In Robyn Carr’s Virgin River Book 1, when Jack gets completely wasted one night and Mel stays over to take care of him (sigh…)
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 8:10 amBecky says:
Hmmmm…which to choose, which to choose….
I love so many scenes! My favorites, though, definitely have a bit of humor (and often a lot of truth) in them. One that has always stayed with me as just one of the funniest scenes ever is from one of the Julia Quinn epilogues (The Viscount Who Loved Me, maybe?) where they’re playing killer croquet–just too funny.
Another favorite scene is from Kristan Higgins’s Too Good to Be True where the heroine is dealing with emails from parents (she’s a high school history teacher, so as a junior high history teacher I could really relate) and she has parents who wants to know how their “little prodigies” can get “A”s in her class, and she doesn’t respond with her first thoughts (“Work harder?” “Think more?”) but gives them all a more PC answer–too funny, and sadly, too true.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 8:21 amDawn ♥ romance says:
In one of Robyn Carr’s Virgin River books when Mel was considering adoption then finally accepts that she will have never have another child and Jack just holds her.
After reviewing the above a couple scenes that also stood out for me were SEP’s cereal killer and Dirty by Megan Hart the whole relationship with her husband.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 8:30 amDawn ♥ romance says:
oops (skip this in random draw) but I just had to correct my Megan Hart book – it was Broken
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 8:35 amPaula says:
I read so much, I have scenes swirling through my head together, but one of my favorites was in a Kristan Higgins book (it was actually a couple of different scenes on the same subject) in which her heroine was going on blind dates. Sadly these were not at all the blind dates anyone would ever WANT to be on. I laughed so hard. Those, and the scene she wrote about the girl hitting the wild turkey with her car then gathering it up to take to the vet’s house, only to find out it was still alive. Laughed until there were tears in my eyes. I guess my favorite scenes are the laugh out loud scenes because I also really love Steph and Lula running from the dogs in Ten Big Ones. Favorite. Scene. Ever.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 8:37 amMarcia in OK says:
Eve and Roarke make me swoon. I love every single time that Eve is frustrated with her closet and she notices that he has filled it or when she sends him in to get just the right outfit.
I also love the one where the are in Ireland, and she’s worked with his family to surprise him with the park.
And, I love scenes from Agnes and the Hitman. All the kitchen ones, and the fixed bridge, and the air conditioner.
I have an entire bookshelf with books I love that have many, many scenes that I love. I sometimes think I’ll just skim to the good parts as a pick me up. I often just reread the whole book.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 8:41 amLaura says:
The bromance scene at the end of Pamela Clare’s “Breaking Point” is one that has stuck with me since I read the book.
That and just about every scene from Harry Potter. <3
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 8:43 amSarah says:
One of my favorite scenes is from a Rachel Gibson book, with John Kowalski and Georgie. John has just met his daughter and they are going on a picnic and decorating the table are little animals wearing clothes. It cracks me up every time because the guys, John in particular, have no understanding of why women would do that (though in this case it was a little girl.)
Looking forward to Time Out!
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 8:44 amDawn J says:
From Lauren Dane’s book Inside Out. The scene with Ella and Cope, the exchanging of the love letters.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 8:50 amSteffi K says:
I keep thinking about this scene from “All I ever Wanted” from Kristan Higgins where its near the end of the book and Dr.Ian McFarland tells Callie (heroine) of the book that he doesn’t want her moorelock rocking chair if she isn’t coming with it. It’s absolutley my favorite because he realizes he loves her and that chair is special between them now somehow.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 8:52 ambooklover1335 says:
I love that image, and I can’t wait to see what you do with it. Will you share it with us when you are done, or at least let us know what book it is for?
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 9:01 amRuth (CO) says:
I was thinking of Loretta Chase’s book where Ainswood is writing a letter about his nephew to Grenville and his moments of regret with his nieces.
I also loved it when his nieces are talking to Grenville how Ainswood was a hero for sitting with his dying nephew when everyone else was afraid to go near.
So poignant that I love to read this book again and again.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 9:17 amSusan says:
I know there has been more than one in this series, but any time in the In Death books when Eve can’t figure out why people like green pastures and how cows just creep her out.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 9:31 amwinnie says:
A scene that really stayed with me was a scene in Kiss of the Highlander by Karen Marie Moning. It was also an emotional reunion scene near the end of book when I was wondering just how things were going to work out to the HEA at the end and because of things leading up to that scene, it did.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 9:47 amTammy says:
I remember a scene from Jaci Burton’s book Changing The Game where Riley doesn’t defend Elizabeth from his brother. I understand why his brother was so upset with but I really felt for her. This book changed my mind towards her and I didn’t think Gavin could get back in her good graces but they managed to come together beautifully. Oh and I am a Twilight geek also so, that is a great love story.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 9:48 amLisa Heller says:
I loved the scene in Head Over Heels when Ford & Jax walked in on Chloe and Sawyer on the couch with paint handprints all over themselves. Ford tried to take a picture of it on his cellphone! That cracked me up, because it was so typical of guys. They find out something like that and they don’t over analyze it to death….They think its great!….and paint hand prints on private areas….hahahah!!!! Loved it!
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 9:59 amCourtney says:
At the end of J.R. Ward’s Lover Awakened, when Zsadist gives Bella her diamond necklace that he’d worn while they were separated. Gets me every time. **sigh**
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 10:00 amMatilda says:
There were two in Head Over Heels that really got to me – first when Sawyer researched asthma before sleeping with Chloe and second when he bought a nebulizer for his house. Seriously though, I could pick something from any of your books… you’re the best
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 10:04 amAmy (CA) says:
It is a SEP book – the one with the circus (can’t for the life of me remember the name).
Anyway, at the end of the book the heroine is spying on the hero and he is facing the “evil woman” and has to grovel for her (heroine’s) love. Something about “get on your knees” and the hero never begs or drops to his knees. He is just about to when the heroine rushes out and stops him.
I know this sounds vague and confusing, but I can’t get out of my mind this big strong studly man (almost) dropping to his knees in love of his woman.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 10:26 amJoyce S says:
Unfortunately, I can’t remember the name of the book or the author, but I believe the author is from Australia.
The premiss of the book is the two main characters are opposite, dislike each other, and get stuck in an elevator. The heroine has clostaphobia an the hero teaches her a breathing technique to ward off panic.
When my clostphobia kicked in during an MRI, I remembered this breathing technique and it really helped me!
Oh, the trick in case you ever need it: breath in, but imagine the air is traveling up one nostril and when you exhale, imagine the air traveling out the other nostril. Repeat until panic passes or they remove you from the MRI tube.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 10:38 amRochelle L says:
I love the scene in Kristin Higgins’ “Too Good to be True” where Grace and Callahan are in the basement gathering her mother’s erotic glass art. They are laughing together, trying not to drop a glass breast and she looks up and realizes she’s smitten. Loved it!!!
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 11:07 amAlso loved that he wants to rent out the basement. LOL!!!
Donna M says:
My mind is not cooperating in coming up with a scene but bits & fragments of several swirling through my head. If I can nail down some specifics I’ll come back!!!
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 11:26 amFannie says:
The one that I remember is from your book “Get a Clue”. I will never forget that pink vibrator. I laugh just thimking about it. I also like the scene from “Safe Harbor” by Christine Feehan when Jonas tells Hannah “Hannah Baby, I don’t think
The scene in the bathroom with the pink vibrator in “Get a Clue” is one of my favorites. I always laugh when I think of it. Another is from “Safe Harbor” by Christine Feehan. When Jonas tells Hannah ” Hannah, Baby, I don’t think I’m going to make it home to you” makes her angry and me cry. I love this book. There are just too mkany book scenes to just pick one. Hugs.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 11:38 amJen says:
My absolutely favorite is from Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander Series) by Diana Gabaldon, when Claire finally finds Jamie (twenty years later and time traveling 300 years). She walks in and says his name. He’s standing with his back to her. He freezes. Then they’re in each other’s arms crying and laughing. ANd then they eat peanut butter sandwiches…
I can’t eat a PB&J without thinking of it.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 12:07 pmMarian says:
The first time I read Love Story in like, 7th grade, I was so surprised by how mean Oliver and Jenny were to each other when they met at the library. I guess I didn’t know what sexual tension was back then. haha But that scene always sticks out in my head.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 12:31 pmTrishMc says:
I first read The Wolf And The Dove 40 years ago and still remember the scene where Aislinn says “My son, Wulfgar. I want my son”. The hero’s sister had run off with the child.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 1:16 pmLori Y says:
One of mine is from Sam and Alyssa’s story Gone Too Far by Suzanne Brockmann.
The conversation after their condom breaks..
Sam sighed. “I’m saying that I wouldn’t've made love to you tonight if the idea of marrying you and having babies with you made me run screaming for the hills” he told her. Alyssa looked at him “That’s very mature.” He shrugged, looked back at her. “I hope I’ve learned something from the past few years.” He looked down at the bathroom floor, because he didn’t want her to see the hurt he knew would be in his eyes when he said “I guess I still need to learn to ask whether the person I’m making love to feels the same.”
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 1:30 pmKaren says:
The first time I read Pride and Prejudice (in eighth grade) I had to stop reading at the point when Elizabeth reads the letter from her uncle detailing Mr. Darcy’s efforts at finding her sister. I was just thrilled and breathless. I love feeling that way when reading a book!
I have to agree with many of the other posts above mine—–SEP, Julie James, Kristan Higgins, Suzanne Brockmann, and Jill Shalvis
write amazingly memorable scenes and stories.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 1:57 pmDanielle West says:
I just reread Inez Kelley’s Sweet As Sin and her Jinxed this week… both have a few scenes that I will never forget. In Jinxed, the h dresses up as (crazy) Cinderella to grovel to HIM in front of his family and then their wedding scene had be bawling and the epilogue was wonderful. In Sweet As Sin, when the H and h get back together, the scene is just so moving- loved the whole book.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 2:44 pmMaureen says:
In Lisa Kleypas’ book Blue-Eyed Devil there is a scene where the heroine has had he crap beat out of her by her husband and she all she wants to do is get to her big brother. It’s such a great scene that shows the love between siblings.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 3:27 pmJoyce says:
In Get a Clue when the heroine uses a personal item like a pink flashlight and the hero comes across her.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 3:56 pmJennifer Smith says:
Wow! What a great question! There are so many scenes that I am thinking of right now (and I think I will be re-reading a lot of my favorites very soon!) that I’m having a hard time very hard time picking just one. I guess one that really sticks out for me is a scene from one of Maggie Shanes’ books that the hero thinks that the woman he loves is dead and he just looses it. I mean fall to his knees, cries like a baby looses it. I cry every time I read it. The scene that most sticks out in my mind (for a completely different reason) from one of your books is the shower scene between Chleo and Sawyer.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 4:12 pmJess M says:
No sucking up intended, but the scene in with Chloe and Sawyer in the shower, where he’s trying to take it slow and she’s trying to avoid an asthma attack. He panics at her passing out, and I totally fall in love with him on the spot.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 4:21 pmEmily says:
Bella Andre Never too Hot. She captures the true emotion of the love between these characters. I always get the same feeling in your books so keep it up and Im sure it will turn out perfect!
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 5:40 pmcindy w says:
Ahhhh… I would have to say the end of Kingdom of Dreams by Judith McNaught. He starts to give up fighting and will did if he does this… she runs to tell him not to and that she loves him.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 6:22 pmalyce says:
in body check when ty proposes to jenna it was so unexpected and sweet
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 7:26 pmin simply irresistable when maddie sees jax’s tattoo
in the sweetest thing when ford and tara are making out and mia shows up
in head over heels when sawyer is sitting next to chloe in the hosptial and realizes how much he loves her
and finally this part still makes me laugh
in ten big ones where grandma mazur tells joe morelli to get a book on sex, i was at work listening to it on audio and almost fell out of my chair, i think i started to laugh
Kimberly K says:
A scene that sticks with me is from the first book I read of yours- Roughing it With Ryan. (Allie- this is the first book in the trilogy that you were referencing.) I love the scene where they play around with ice cream in the kitchen. That scene allows makes me laugh.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 8:50 pmAlso another scene that sticks with me is from Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella. At the end of the book Lexi gets a thread of a memory about her and Jon and she rushes over to make sure it is true. When Jon asks her if it is enough… *sigh* I loved that. Such a sweet moment.
Andey says:
Johanna Lindsey, Gentle Rogue
During their first… ahem… postcoital moment, as it were, the heroine kissed the hero’s chest. Something about the way the author described it, something to the effect of despite his masses of experiences, that simple gesture touched him in a way nothing ever had… I’m completely butchering it, mind you, but the way she phrased it? It’s been probably 16 years or better since I first read it, and it’s stuck with me ever since.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 8:52 pmKelly S says:
A scene that stuck with me was not a pleasant one and was sadly in a YA book. A dog was nearly stoned to death. The explicitness of how the dog was after that and then to have a person put it out of its misery by bashing its head in has never left me.
A far more positive scene that has stuck with me is from Jenny Crusie’s book Welcome to Temptation and is the sex for Sophie only scene.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 9:15 pmMarc says:
My favorites are almost always funny ones. I love the peeky cheek scene in Practice Makes Perfect by Julie James and I also love the Mari/Bowen scene (Kresley Cole) where he calls her the wrong name after a night of passion and she leaves him a note in the dirt and his pants way up a tree. I still laugh every time I reread them.
Posted on February 13th, 2012 at 9:55 pmKristin says:
One of my guilty pleasures is Lorelei James’ Rough Riders series. They’re super trashy, but the depth of the stories over the course of the series makes up for it. Cam and Colt especially deal with some very intense issues, and one scene that always sticks in my mind is when Cam calls out the rest of his brothers on the differences in how they’ve been treating/supporting him and Colt during each of their own recoveries.
Also just finished reading Pamela Clare’s latest and totally agree with the scene at the end with Hunt and Julian
Posted on February 14th, 2012 at 12:06 amPat L. says:
Oh, my God, what sexy arms.
I think the book was called Sweetwater by Anna Jeffrey – there was one scene where the hero was making love to the heroine with his fingers and tells her to just pretend it is his 8 inches reaching to her soul or something like that.
Posted on February 14th, 2012 at 6:12 ammary g says:
Sweet Restraint by beth Kery – the hug/fleshy knot scene.
Just The Sexiest Man Alive by Julie James – the mock courtroom scene.
Feel The Heat by Cindy Gerard – “You made me hit you”
scene.
Animal Attraction by you know- one of the best opening scenes ever.
Posted on February 14th, 2012 at 6:41 amCrystal Leo says:
Two scenes come to mind! One is by you, the truly fabulous Jill Shalvis, in Head Over Heels. It’s where Chloe and Sawyer get totally busted when Jax and Ford find them sleeping in the living room cuddled up with colorful hand prints on delicious body parts.
The other scene is by Jeanine Frost in Halfway to the Grave. It features a fiesty heroine (Cat) who is half human and half vampire. Her human mother has raised her that all vampires are ‘evil demons’ that need to be killed. Cat looses a bet to a loveable vampire she meets named Bones and her pay off is that she has to work with Bones only to hunt and kill certain vampires that he’s after. During the story you find that Cat has a tendency to kill first and ask questions later. The scene in question features Cat having just killed two or three vampires from a group that had attacked her and Bones. Bones needed some of those vampires alive so he could question them about missing human girls he believes they’ve taken. After he sees that once again Cat has accidentally killed the people he needs to question he yells in exasperation, “Lucifer’s bouncing balls Kitten, not again!”
I LOVE THOSE SCENES. THEY NEVER FAIL TO MAKE ME GIGGLE.
Posted on February 14th, 2012 at 8:43 amHarley says:
In every book I read, my favorite scenes are almost always the scene of the first kiss between the hero and heroine. In the most recent book I read, Firelight by Kristen Callihan it happened between Archer and Miranda in the British Museum, it was so much of a kiss as it was a meeting of tongues!! Ha ha. I especially like it when the first kiss turns into so much more!
Posted on February 14th, 2012 at 12:35 pmSarah Hazelton says:
In PC Casts Goddess of Love…anytime Venus uses references to mythology as curse words had me rolling. For example, “Satyr’s Balls” or “By Athena’s widening ass”.
Posted on February 14th, 2012 at 3:07 pmPeggy says:
From Nora Roberts happily ever after between Malcolm and Parker. Paraphrasing from the scene
He moved fast, giving her a quick yank the that had her body colliding with his. The way she said excuse me, like I’m veteran school teAcher to an unruly student made him grin before he took her mouth with his.
Soft, tasty, ripe with just a hint of shock to cut the sweet. He felt her fingers dig into his shoulders, and the light tremble might have been outrage, might have been pleasure.
He didn’t bother to be gentle. He imagined she’d had plenty of the smooth type, the polite type, and he wasn’t inclined to be either. So he pleased himself, letting his hands run up that truly exceptional body of hers and then down again, enjoying her slow melt against him. When he heard the low purr in her throat when he tasted it on his tongue he let her go. He stepped back, picked up the container of leftovers. He smiled at her. It was the first time he’d seen her stunned and speechless
Posted on February 15th, 2012 at 4:38 pmLorelei Buzzetta says:
One of my favorite scenes is from K Higgins The Next Best Thing, when Ethan stops by to congratulate Lucy on her birthday and she opens the door all sleepy after attempting a makeover, (attempting being the operative word)then she’s crying in his arms, they unexpectedly kiss and the rest still has me sighing, one of my favorite romance scenes.
Posted on February 21st, 2012 at 9:17 amcindy w says:
The scene in Shadow Fever by Moning where Mac grieves Barrons. The Raven prince by Hoyt where he figures out it was heron the bordello, just by looking at her in the rose garden. A Kingdom of Dreams by McNaught at the end where she proclaims her love. I cant wait to go back and read these!
Posted on March 16th, 2012 at 5:02 am