She showered, and afterward, for the first time, sprayed perfume on her pulse points.

There was no discernible movement, but the pulse point under his fingers trembled.

His thumb rubbed the pulse point at her inner wrist.

The pulse point on her neck began to pound.

"I love you," he murmured, brushing his knuckles across the pulse point at her throat.

But I know enough to test a pulse point.

He ran cool, dry lips over the pulse point in her elbow.

Casey knelt by Spencer's body, then checked the pulse point at his neck.

But she reached beneath the angle of his jaw, feeling frantically for a pulse point.

"We are hitting a nerve or a pulse point or whatever, and about 25 percent of our responses come from men," she says.