Blacktail Deer Plateau wisteria; growing [m]

the pinch of her teeth spurred him on; merrick found himself answering by drawing astara roughly into the circlet of his thin forearms, conscious mind fading to the more insistent throb of want and flesh.
she was sinewy and catlike beneath him, dangerous with each impatient shift of her corded body. but to him she belonged; to merrick she had chosen to submit for the time being.
and he to her, pressing forward with a boyish eagerness that failed them both several times before merrick resettled his footing and found her with a throated gasp of surprise.