"It was a long way for a man to travel. Not only the miles from San Diego to the cliffs outside of Monterrey, Felipe thought, but the years. So many years." Prologue, pg. 13

"On the day of her eighteenth birthday, Laura was in love. She knew she was lucky to be so certain of her feelings, and her future, and the man who would share them both with her." Chapter 1, pg. 19

"He was well aware that the Templeton housekeeper had considered him a mongrel let loose among her purebreds. And he assumed that she'd been worried about his intentions toward her daughter." Chapter 3, pg. 44

"It was humiliating, she thought as she jerked the zipper up. A thirty-year-old woman being fixed up by her big brother." Chapter 5, pg. 76

"And that reminded him that no matter how much he might enjoy the experiment, they weren't alone in a place where...