One of the problems I faced when starting Book #3 in the Merry Widow series was how my hero, Chandler Rhys, evolves from a somewhat quiet, scholarly type as portrayed in the second book (he was introduced in Betrayed in Brighton as a secondary character) into a man more passionate about the heroine, Felicity Drummond. Still keeping the light-hearted spirit of the holiday season, what could be the inciting incident that ignites that passion? Jealousy was a good starting point, I thought. But I needed something quick, right up front at the beginning of the story (since this is a novella, the timing is much tighter than in a full-length novel). Felicity is assertive in her own way and quite sensuous in nature. As a matter of fact, in the second book, her somewhat forward manner throws Rhys for a loop. So I started looking at classic paintings from this period, but also other images that might capture the "feeling" of what could set off Rhys' jealous bones, a...