title: Spontaneous Human Combustion: The True Story of How One Christian Woman Found Explosive Love.
author: Liv Dietrich
description: A newspaper journalist and award-winning writer, Liv Dietrich is the author of published articles, poetry, and lyrics. Listen to many of her published songs on Reverb Nation. Compositions by Jaziel Bachman and Alexa Coljen are included.
zlib_text: **AN EVENING ALONE**
  
  “We would know.” He cleared his throat. “And that’s a thing you can’t unknow.”
  
  When his eyes met hers, the flush on her face grew even stronger. When her
  gentle fingers brushed against his cheek, he ceased to breathe. Then she said
  with a tart smile, “I only mean to sleep. Just keep each other warm.”
  
  He had never been a man of many words, but now he could barely eke out a
  breathless syllable. Her touch burned his skin, and muscles all over his body
  contracted. Had he caught a fever from the rains? She moved in close to him,
  and he was struck by the sense of rightness and pleasure. It should feel
  awkward, shouldn’t it? Unnatural. This woman, of all women. It should feel
  wrong to slide his hands around her waist. Her finely muscled arms should feel
  like an affront. Touching his lips to hers should feel like burning in the
  fiery pit of hell.
  
  And yet . . .
  
  That inexplicable, irrational sensation overtook him, just like the night at
  the coaching inn. Her closeness 