" Violet could not say that the scrapes and broken nose made him less handsome—and even if they did make him a fraction less handsome, they made him ten times more virile and attractive. What was it about a visible, flesh-and-bone record of violence that made a man so alluring? She couldn’t explain it, but she felt it. Oh, she felt it. "

― Tessa Dare , Once Upon a Winter's Eve (Spindle Cove, #1.5)