tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53503393483138101942024-03-05T05:27:42.972+00:00Lindsay's RomanticsChat, news and views from a group of romantic writers, hosted by historical romance author Lindsay Townsend.Lindsay Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11513558547686982857noreply@blogger.comBlogger621125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350339348313810194.post-9625250305473416212023-12-17T10:17:00.002+00:002023-12-17T10:17:32.872+00:00Christmas Romance, Christmas Read. 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Bride<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She is Beauty, but is he the Beast?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Book One of
The Knight and the Witch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">England,
winter, 1131<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Elfrida,
spirited, caring and beautiful, is also alone. She is the witch of the woods
and no man dares to ask for her hand in marriage until a beast comes stalking
brides and steals away her sister. Desperate, the lovely Elfrida offers herself
as a sacrifice, as bridal bait, and she is seized by a man with fearful scars.
Is he the beast?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the
depths of a frozen midwinter, in the heart of the woodland, Sir Magnus,
battle-hardened knight of the Crusades, searches ceaselessly for three missing
brides, pitting his wits and weapons against a nameless stalker of the snowy
forest. Disfigured and hideously scarred, Magnus has finished with love, he
thinks, until he rescues a fourth 'bride', the beautiful, red-haired Elfrida,
whose innocent touch ignites in him a fierce passion that satisfies his deepest
yearnings and darkest desires.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 210.75pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Excerpt<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Elfrida
stirred sluggishly, unable to remember where she was. Her back ached, and the
rest of her body burned. She opened her eyes and sat up with a jerk, thinking
of Christina.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Her head
felt to be bobbing like an acorn cup in a stream, and her vision swam. As she
tried to swing her legs, her sense of dizzy falling increased, becoming worse
as she closed her eyes. She lashed out in the darkness, her flailing hands and
feet connecting with straw, dusty hay, and ancient pelts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Christina?”
she hissed, listening intently and praying now that the monster had brought her
to the same place it had taken her sister. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She heard
nothing but her own breath, and when she held that, nothing at all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Christina?”
Fearing to reach out in this blackness that was more than night and dreading
what she might find, Elfrida forced herself to stretch her arms. She trailed
her fingers out into the ghastly void, tracing the unseen world with trembling
hands. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Her body
shook more than her hands, but she ignored the shuddering of her limbs, closed
her eyes like a blind man, and searched. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She lay on
a pallet, she realized, full of crackling, dry grass. When she scented and
tasted the air, there was no blood. She did not share the space with grisly
corpses. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I am alone and unfettered</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">. Now her heart had stopped thudding
in her ears, she listened again, hearing no one else. Chanting a charm to see
in the dark, she tried again to shift her feet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Light
spilled into her eyes like scalding milk as a door opened and a massive figure
lurched across the threshold. Elfrida launched herself at freedom, hurling a
fistful of straw at the looming beast and ducking out for the light.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She fell
instead, her legs buckling, her last sight that of softly falling snow. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">* * * *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Magnus
gathered the woman before she pitched facedown into the snow, returning her
swiftly to the rough bed within the hut. Her tiny, bird-boned form terrified
him. Clutching her was like ripping a fragile wood anemone up from its roots. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And she had
fought him, wind-flower or not. She had charged at him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“I wish,
lass, that you would listen to me. I am not the Forest Grendel, nor have wish
to be, nor ever have been.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Just as
earlier, in the clearing where he had first come upon her, a brilliant shock of
life and color in a white, dead world, the woman gave no sign of hearing. She
was cold again, freezing, while in his arms she had steamed with fever. He
tugged off his cloak and bundled her into it, then piled his firewood and
kindling onto the bare hearth. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A few
strikes of his flints and he had a fire. He set snow to melt in the helmet he
was using as a cauldron. He swept more dusty hay up from the floor and,
sneezing, packed it round the still little figure. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">No beast on
two or four legs would hunt tonight, so that was one worry less. Finding this
lean-to hut in the forest had been a godsend, but it would be cold.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Magnus went
back out into the snow and led his horse into the hut, spreading what feed he
had brought with him. He kept the door shut with his saddle, rubbed the palfrey
down with the bay’s own horse blanket, and looked about for a lantern.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There was
none, just as there were no buckets, nor wooden bowls hanging from the eaves.
But, abandoned as it surely had been, the place was well roofed, and no snow
swirled in through the wood and wattle walls. Whistling, Magnus dug through his
pack and found a flask of ale, some hard cheese, two wizened apples, and a
chunk of dark rye bread. He spoke softly to his horse, then looked again at the
woman.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She was
breathing steadily now, and her lips and cheeks had more color. By the
glittering, rising fire he saw her as he had first in the forest clearing, an
elf-child of beauty and grace, a willing sacrifice to the monster. Kneeling
beside her, he longed to stroke her vivid red hair and kiss the small dimple in
her chin. In sleep she had the calm, flawless face of a Madonna of Outremer and
the bright locks of a Magdalene. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">He had
guessed who she was—the witch of the three villages, the good witch driven to
desperation. Coming upon her in that snowfield, tied between two trees like a
crucified child of fairy, his temper had been a black storm against the
villagers for sparing their skins by flaying hers. Then he had seen her face,
recognized that wild, stark, sunken-cheeked grief, seen the loose bonds and the
terrible “feast,” and had understood. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Another young woman has been taken by the
beast, someone you love.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She—Elfrida,
that was her name, he remembered it now—Elfrida was either very foolish or very
powerful, to offer herself as bait.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Here’s
another excerpt from THE SNOW BRIDE, showing Elfrida, a medieval witch and
Magnus, a warrior. I deliberately wrote it so Elfrida was powerful in magic but
not invulnerable. Hence her catching chicken-pox and being feverish as a
result.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">EXCERPT<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(247, 240, 233); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-indent: 0cm;"><span face=""Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"" style="color: #4b6320; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Magnus was worried. The fire he had made should have brought his
people. It was an old signal, well-known between them. His men should have
reached the village by now—that had been the arrangement. They were bringing
traps and provisions in covered wagons, and hunting dogs and horses. He had
been impatient to start his pursuit of the Forest Grendel and so rode ahead,
returning with the messenger until that final stretch when the man turned off
to his home. He had ridden on alone, finding the wayside shrine.<br />
<br />
But from then, all had gone awry. Instead of the monster, he had found an
ailing witch, and the snowstorm had lost him more tracks and time.<br />
<br />
Magnus shook his head, turning indulgent eyes to the small, still figure on the
rough pallet. At least the little witch had slept through the night and day,
snug and safe, and he had been able to make her a litter from woven branches.
He would give his fire signal a little longer and then return Elfrida to her
village. There he might find someone who could translate between them.<br />
<br />
Perhaps she did have power, for even as he looked at her, she sat up, the hood
of her cloak falling away, and stared at him in return. She said something,
then repeated it, and he drew in a great gulp of cold air in sheer
astonishment, then laughed.<br />
<br />
“I know what you said!” He wanted to kiss her, spots and all.<br />
<br />
He burst into a clumsy canter, dragging his peg leg a little and almost
tumbling onto her bed. She caught him by the shoulders and tried to steady him
but collapsed under his weight.<br />
<br />
They finished in an untidy heap on the pallet, with Elfrida hissing by his ear,
“Why have you done such a foolish thing as to burn all our fuel?”<br />
<br />
He rolled off her, knocked snow off his front and beard, and said in return,
“How did you know I would know the old speech, the old English?”<br />
<br />
“I dream true, and I dreamed this.” She was blushing, though not, he realized
quickly, from shyness.<br />
<br />
“Why burn so wildly?” she burst out, clearly furious. “You have wasted it! All
that good wood gone to ash!”<br />
<br />
“My men know my sign and will come now the storm has gone.” He had not expected
thanks or soft words, but he was not about to be scolded by this red-haired
nag.<br />
<br />
“That is your plan, Sir Magnus? To burn half the forest to alert your troops?”<br />
<br />
“A wiser plan than yours, madam, setting yourself as bait. Or had your village
left you hanging there, perhaps to nag the beast to death?”<br />
<br />
Her face turned as scarlet as the fire. “So says any witless fool! ’Tis too
easy a charge men make against women, any woman who thinks and acts for herself.
And no man orders me!”<br />
<br />
Magnus swallowed the snort of laughter filling up his throat. He doubted she
saw any amusement in their finally being able to speak to each other only to
quarrel. Had she been a man or a lad, he would have knocked her into the snow,
then offered a drink of mead, but such rough fellowship was beyond him here.<br />
<br />
“And how would you have fought off any knave, or worse, that found you?” he
asked patiently. “You did not succeed with me.”<br />
<br />
“There are better ways to vanquish a male than brute force. I knew what I was
about!”<br />
<br />
“Truly? You were biding your time? And the pox makes you alluring?”<br />
<br />
“Says master gargoyle! My spots will pass!”<br />
<br />
“Or did you plan to scatter a few herbs, perhaps?”<br />
<br />
He thought he heard her clash her teeth together. “I did not plan my sickness,
and I do not share my secrets! Had you not snatched me away, had you not
interfered, I would know where the monster lives. I would have found my sister!
I would be with her!” Her voice hitched, and a look of pain and dread crossed
her face. “We would be together. Whatever happens, I would be with her.”<br />
<br />
“This was Christina?”<br />
<br />
“Is Christina, not was, never was! I know she lives!”<br />
<br />
Magnus merely nodded, his temper cooling rapidly as he marked how her color had
changed and her body shook. A desperate trap to recover a much-loved sister
excused everything, to his way of thinking.<br />
<br />
<i>She called you a gargoyle</i>! This piqued his vanity and pride.<br />
<br />
But she does not think you the monster, Magnus reminded himself in a dazzled,
shocked wonder, embracing that knowledge like a lover.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Published
August 15<sup>th</sup> by Prairie Rose Publications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">FREE to
read with Kindle Umlinted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To buy on
Amazon </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VSHHX4N/" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VSHHX4N</a><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrn-wOqNFw8Hlz8GxwfDVGU_NTy1X0WJuc7JnqAq3GgUuec809uLO_SITKJxzdD7KYuYQST17UlGb17pyp9CjgfY_TkHb8lG-Qw5o6M5YlexNSCFkkr7LkrTvmgDMlbjQ88CHfJ6-KEaccoTPg4fMebDXYd01f7iRAIWLswIBMFl7xYlA226bKQY_Onw/s2400/1%20Lindsay%206.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="2400" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrn-wOqNFw8Hlz8GxwfDVGU_NTy1X0WJuc7JnqAq3GgUuec809uLO_SITKJxzdD7KYuYQST17UlGb17pyp9CjgfY_TkHb8lG-Qw5o6M5YlexNSCFkkr7LkrTvmgDMlbjQ88CHfJ6-KEaccoTPg4fMebDXYd01f7iRAIWLswIBMFl7xYlA226bKQY_Onw/s320/1%20Lindsay%206.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />A FINAL EXCERPT:<o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">“How are the
spots? Itching yet?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Elfrida gave
a faint shudder. “Do not remind me.” Since stirring, she had been aware of her
whole body tickling and burning. Mark’s idea of rolling in the snow might not
be so bad.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">“Walter told
me that the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">village</st1:placetype>
of <st1:placename w:st="on">Great Yarr</st1:placename></st1:place> has a
bathhouse. Bathing in oatmeal will help you.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">She did not
say that the village could afford to spare no foodstuffs and would not be
distracted. She had tried to rush off in pursuit of the monster before and
gained nothing, so now she would gather her strength and learn before she
moved. “What did you call the beast? <st1:place w:st="on">Forest</st1:place>
Grendel? Is it known he lives in the forest?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Magnus shook
his head. “It is not known, but I do not think so now, or at least not
outdoors. I have hunted wolf’s heads who have been outlawed and fled into
woodland, and they always have camps and dens and food caches within the
forest. I have found none of those hereabouts.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">“My dowsing
caught no sign of any lair of his,” Elfrida agreed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Magnus
leaned forward, bracing himself with his injured arm. Elfrida forced herself
not to stare at his stump, but to listen to him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">“Do you
sense anything?” he asked softly. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">“The night
you came, I felt something approach.” She frowned, trying to put into words
feelings and impressions that were as elusive as smoke. “A great purpose,” she
said. “A need and urgent desire.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">Now Magnus
was frowning. “Have you a charm or magic that will help?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">“Do you
think I have not tried magic, charms, and incantations? My craft is not like a
sword fight, where the blades are always true. If God does not will it—”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">“I have been
in enough fights where swords break.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">“Are your
men good trackers?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">“They would
not be with me, else.” If Magnus was startled by her determination to talk only
of the beast, he gave no sign. “Tell me of your sister and her habits. Did she
keep to the same paths and same tasks each day?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">“Yes and
yes, but what else did Walter say? The old men have told me nothing!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">“No, they do
not want the womenfolk to know anything, even you, I fear.” His kind eyes
gleamed, as if he enjoyed her discomfiture. He had a small golden cross in his
right eye, she noticed, shining amidst the warm brown.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">A sparkle
for the lasses, eh, Magnus?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">To her
further discomfiture, she realized he had asked her something. “Say again,
please?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">“Would you
like some food to go with your mead? There are the remains of mutton, dates and
ginger, wine and mead and honey.” His brown eyes gleamed. “My men found it in
the clearing where I found you. The mutton has been a bit chewed, but the rest
is palatable, I think.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">“It is
drugged!” Elfrida burst out. “I put”—she could not think of the old word and
used her own language instead—“I put a sleeping draft in the wedding cakes and
all.” She seized his arm, not caring that it was the one with the missing hand.
“Do not eat it!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">“Sleeping
draft?” He used her own words.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">She yawned
and feigned sleep, startled when he started to laugh.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: 18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">“A wedding
feast to send the groom to sleep! I like it!” He chuckled again and opened his
left hand, where, to Elfrida’s horror, there was one of her own small wedding
cakes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Published
August 15<sup>th</sup> by Prairie Rose Publications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">FREE to
read with Kindle Unlimited.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To buy on
Amazon </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VSHHX4N/" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VSHHX4N</a><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Author Bio<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Lindsay
Townsend lives in Yorkshire, where she was born, and started writing stories at
an early age. Always a voracious reader, she took a degree in medieval history
and worked in a library for a while, then began to write full-time after
marriage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She is
fascinated by the medieval and ancient world, especially medieval Britain,
where she set her full length medieval romance novels A Knight's Vow, A
Knight's Captive, A Knight's Enchantment and A Knight’s Prize, (first published
by Kensington Zebra, now re-issued) and also<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Snow Bride, A Summer Bewitchment, and several novellas. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lindsay is also intrigued by ancient Rome,
Egypt, and Britain. Flavia’s Secret, a historical romance set in Roman Britain,
was followed by two more ancient world historical romances, Blue Gold, set in
ancient Egypt, and Bronze Lightning, set in Bronze Age Greece and the Ancient Britain
of Stonehenge. All these ancient world historicals are just 99cents or 99p.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When not
writing or researching her books, she enjoys walking, reading, cooking, music,
going out with friends and long languid baths with scented candles (and perhaps
chocolate).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Author page
on Amazon </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lindsay-Townsend/e/B000API55C/">https://www.amazon.com/Lindsay-Townsend/e/B000API55C/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Twitter
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /></div>Lindsay Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11513558547686982857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350339348313810194.post-54646520856352417102023-10-31T08:14:00.000+00:002023-10-31T08:14:49.339+00:00See your characters in an anime way! 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font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-overflow: unset; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">Send <a href="@KurokonekoKamen">@KurokonekoKamen </a> via Twitter or Deviantart a description of your character.</div></div><div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-1udh08x r-bnwqim r-fdjqy7 r-1rozpwm r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-overflow: unset; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;"><br /></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-1udh08x r-bnwqim r-fdjqy7 r-1rozpwm r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-overflow: unset; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;">4 variations will be put up as exclusives/adoptables for $2 ea on Deviantart, where you are able to pay securely through Paypal.</div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-1udh08x r-bnwqim r-fdjqy7 r-1rozpwm r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-overflow: unset; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;"><br /></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-1udh08x r-bnwqim r-fdjqy7 r-1rozpwm r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-overflow: unset; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;"><a href="https://www.deviantart.com/kurokoneko-kamen/shop/exclusives">To learn more and see examples of Kurokoneko Kamen's delightful work, please see her page on Deviantart</a></div><div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-1udh08x r-bnwqim r-fdjqy7 r-1rozpwm r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; 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font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-overflow: unset; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-1udh08x r-bnwqim r-fdjqy7 r-1rozpwm r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-overflow: unset; white-space-collapse: preserve; word-break: break-word;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;">Hi </span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; 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Send </span><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-1ddef8g r-tjvw6i r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/KurokonekoKamen" role="link" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;">@KurokonekoKamen</a></span></div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;"> via Twitter or Deviantart a description of your character, ~4 variations will be put up as exclusives/adoptables for $2 ea on Deviantart where you are able to pay securely <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />through PayPal. </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-1ddef8g r-tjvw6i r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/twTG9ccD1j" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-thickness: 1px; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;">https://</span>deviantart.com/kurokoneko-kam<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;">en/shop/exclusives</span><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-lrvibr r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset; user-select: none; white-space: inherit;">…</span></a><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-overflow: unset; white-space: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">As an example, here are images of Anastasia, a lead character from J.S. Frankel's novel "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Catnip-J-S-Frankel-ebook/dp/B00MJ57YIU/">Catnip</a>".</span></span></div><div><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><b>Blurb</b>.</span></span></div><div><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419;"><div><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiTgx_wl0xfbgNxDXczYrIfVfwbqX8EKGqvGkzvQ0A2uUEIr2VemWrDQ83Ac3f11ECE65LDaA2vpV38xRDATvFGm6dV3Ks9fyGnwTc0JfGISISEiumAey4UD-Fh39hLkLvM_tQ4-yWgt_cjVyMJEmhzpfDHtAg0WsWk5Nh1ncptrq6iKlVRcNex1KLjUA/s425/91jfhpnyu1L._SY425_%20Catnip.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="283" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiTgx_wl0xfbgNxDXczYrIfVfwbqX8EKGqvGkzvQ0A2uUEIr2VemWrDQ83Ac3f11ECE65LDaA2vpV38xRDATvFGm6dV3Ks9fyGnwTc0JfGISISEiumAey4UD-Fh39hLkLvM_tQ4-yWgt_cjVyMJEmhzpfDHtAg0WsWk5Nh1ncptrq6iKlVRcNex1KLjUA/s320/91jfhpnyu1L._SY425_%20Catnip.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br />Harry Goldman, teenage DNA researcher, genius, and total nerd, is thrown into jail for illegal transgenic research. Freed by the FBI on the condition he works under their aegis, Harry is taken to New York where he meets Anastasia, a cat-girl and the product of transgenic engineering. No sooner do they get acquainted then they are attacked by another creature, a bear which is more than a bear, and are forced to flee for their lives. Along the way, they encounter furries, Doug the Dog, find out that they are more into each other emotionally than they’re willing to admit, and end up in the Catskill Mountains where Harry finds out the shocking truth about how Anastasia was created...and what she was created for.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> The cover above shows Anastasia from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Catnip-J-S-Frankel-ebook/dp/B00MJ57YIU/">"Catnip</a>".</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Here is her character in anime.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP6sXreHNzL4r2-lZet_RAQLqoFc5GqFbsF0dMkXCmkjq4TtzteDd9C4oQXpS8nD_cK5WenfskUzBLY_BovxU-zxzfPgZpF4xT77cMOpRyvvUFdMg0XhjVWIbu895MK26b8R28dN6OXLSx79vJHPic0l_h6wCnBzKnwYT9xaKTm-nXbZTppwrYPPyrQIU/s1024/F9jDMsqXwAATtxV.jpg" style="clear: left; 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</div>Lindsay Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11513558547686982857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350339348313810194.post-44267293557012023532023-09-29T10:14:00.006+01:002023-09-29T10:22:54.917+01:00Sweet, Feel-Good Christmas Romance. "Sir Conrad and the Christmas Treasure."<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPPkMmksH57q6wHnXfi9t2JbUSyO5tN8BKoztx93RXXtZB1t-7qrtJyrG_zRUCeabuISUUUeB4zFJo3uM7MfvfoeIQBxkpzCCL9Cgd0LbdyP5H36mbP6oXWQzypUzCJjxJrVtz-ohD1f9yK4EhY66kPUgpdJw5G5uk7cGVUKAOKLebbVb4eYjN2PqaYb8/s600/Sir%20Conrad%20and%20the%20Christmas%20%20%20Treasure%20L%20Townsend%20Web%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPPkMmksH57q6wHnXfi9t2JbUSyO5tN8BKoztx93RXXtZB1t-7qrtJyrG_zRUCeabuISUUUeB4zFJo3uM7MfvfoeIQBxkpzCCL9Cgd0LbdyP5H36mbP6oXWQzypUzCJjxJrVtz-ohD1f9yK4EhY66kPUgpdJw5G5uk7cGVUKAOKLebbVb4eYjN2PqaYb8/s320/Sir%20Conrad%20and%20the%20Christmas%20%20%20Treasure%20L%20Townsend%20Web%20(1).jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Fancy a feel-good, sweet romance for a Christmas Read as the nights draw in? My sweet medieval historical romance, "Sir Conrad and the Christmas Treasure" is out as a Kindle, a Paperback and now as a Large Print. The Large Print version is coming out on December 1st as a perfect Christmas Read and Christmas Gift.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><b>KindleVersion </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f7f0e9; color: #4b6320; font-size: 14.3px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f7f0e9; color: #4b6320; font-size: 14.3px; text-align: left;">USA</span><span face="Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: #f7f0e9; color: #4b6320; font-size: 14.3px; text-align: left;"> </span><a href="https://amazon.com/gp/product/B07KW6K5RL/" style="color: #4d7307; font-family: Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">https://amazon.com/gp/product/B07KW6K5RL/</a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f7f0e9; color: #4b6320; font-family: Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; height: 40.0312px; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px; overflow: visible;"><span style="font-size: 14.3px;"> UK</span><span style="font-size: 14.3px;"> </span><a href="https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B07KW6K5RL/" style="color: #6a9718; font-size: 14.3px; font-weight: bold;">https://amazon.co.uk/dp/B07KW6K5RL/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: #f7f0e9; color: #4b6320; font-family: Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3px; height: 20.0156px; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px; overflow: visible;"><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><b>Large Print Version:</b></div><div><br /></div></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUxykdt3ffFbquhYNEJEbZJJs27V2Vyyu-5j5xG4DuswAcrJCuyKc8obl2Ur_Oyq6phFUxfiAAhdh9kYjepl_99FQH96cDhrd7UqCIdDbZ_aJ_PKGP0CvfG-ObFbrKpCnPjB7VI2ndcexd1Dh6RrcjnQ9efT6HmSDjao2vrVHoELb0Rhk60ABrP5UileWk/s500/9781444851861%20sir%20conrad.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="339" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUxykdt3ffFbquhYNEJEbZJJs27V2Vyyu-5j5xG4DuswAcrJCuyKc8obl2Ur_Oyq6phFUxfiAAhdh9kYjepl_99FQH96cDhrd7UqCIdDbZ_aJ_PKGP0CvfG-ObFbrKpCnPjB7VI2ndcexd1Dh6RrcjnQ9efT6HmSDjao2vrVHoELb0Rhk60ABrP5UileWk/w434-h640/9781444851861%20sir%20conrad.jpg" width="434" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Large Print Version:</b></div><div><br /></div><div>England, 1192. When Maggie’s brother Michael is kidnapped by outlaws, she appeals to the grim Sir Conrad for help. The first time he sees her, Conrad is overwhelmed by Maggie’s beauty and courage. Yet what will it cost him to aid this peasant girl, who seems strangely familiar? Working together to find Michael, Maggie and Conrad discover more about each other – but some knowledge is dangerous. As Christmas approaches, will their love prevail?</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://thereadinghouse.co.uk/books/fiction/historical-romance/sir-conrad-and-the-christmas-treasure-large-print-paperback/">Pre-Order from</a> <a href="https://thereadinghouse.co.uk/books/fiction/historical-romance/sir-conrad-and-the-christmas-treasure-large-print-paperback/">The Reading House. </a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Conrad-Christmas-Treasure-Lindsay-Townsend/dp/1444851861/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3CDG0HHDENVN4&keywords=sir+conrad+and+the+christmas+Treasure+Large+Print&qid=1695818361&s=books&sprefix=sir+conrad+and+the+christmas+treasure+large+print%2Cstripbooks%2C157&sr=1-1">Pre-Order from Amazon Co UK</a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.ulverscroft.com/store/uk/search/Sir%20Conrad%20and%20the%20Christmas%20Treasure">Pre-Order from Linford Large Print </a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFZIULuaDjbGHYSxlAEMGkqGcFwLw8IhWh5zlbI4KhAC8sQf7hodM1aiATJvV1JBCwPmb3RZWpKM3NB5gP9a3eeE52PUGT8M8UVEv_k5438v7DW0VCHAWlNFHMNeZCAi2fAuKHhYb4kpTKIEF7ryVkxPuv6lMvw__9UnuJ6n0xasnBec5B-yijBJ0iQgHA/s500/9781444851861%20sir%20conrad.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="339" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFZIULuaDjbGHYSxlAEMGkqGcFwLw8IhWh5zlbI4KhAC8sQf7hodM1aiATJvV1JBCwPmb3RZWpKM3NB5gP9a3eeE52PUGT8M8UVEv_k5438v7DW0VCHAWlNFHMNeZCAi2fAuKHhYb4kpTKIEF7ryVkxPuv6lMvw__9UnuJ6n0xasnBec5B-yijBJ0iQgHA/w434-h640/9781444851861%20sir%20conrad.jpg" width="434" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Lindsay Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11513558547686982857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350339348313810194.post-34755065723626450692023-08-01T10:10:00.000+01:002023-08-01T10:10:20.150+01:00Celebrate Summer With Medieval Romance!<p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5GLHG2EPMzst33Gxfm8XCrZNsSG7thgKkSp7uqAm6U538usLnHiae5RVLSD4-zuVty81AUViQW808sBN2HxfLml2zwgXj_JzJGWUD95WChTmjMYYqhrydnMGSs_QDl-uP9W5krWH1p4gXa5MK-tCp0rZ9t4wFhnu2mEO0obUZ0sAU5pjVjH6HkNFOv1o/s346/51UV-5B96iL._SY346_A%20Summer%20Bewitchment%20Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="230" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5GLHG2EPMzst33Gxfm8XCrZNsSG7thgKkSp7uqAm6U538usLnHiae5RVLSD4-zuVty81AUViQW808sBN2HxfLml2zwgXj_JzJGWUD95WChTmjMYYqhrydnMGSs_QDl-uP9W5krWH1p4gXa5MK-tCp0rZ9t4wFhnu2mEO0obUZ0sAU5pjVjH6HkNFOv1o/w266-h400/51UV-5B96iL._SY346_A%20Summer%20Bewitchment%20Cover.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Celebrate
Summer with Medieval Romance!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A Summer
Bewitchment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #1b95e0; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">#Escape</span><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> into </span><span style="color: #1b95e0; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">#Romance and</span><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #1b95e0; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">#Magic with the #RomanceNovel</span><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> A SUMMER BEWITCHMENT (THE Knight & the Witch 2) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I am the troll king of this land and you owe
me a forfeit.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Elfrida glanced behind the shadowed figure who
barred her way. </span><span style="color: #1b95e0; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">#KU</span><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: #1b95e0; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">#HistoricalRomance</span><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> #MedievalHistoricalRomance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">#Sequel to THE SNOW BRIDE</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHYsUymeVIXbALRDzlaZkrFLrDS9G4uHNsSi80R4P4grcuwYXBT5CKzA8C8Z6Mb1mve_5uJlN9GOsBKlxPG0UCsBGHMQv9H5MEAvXVugfnJwzhFMiliSXmN8ZmtFOtmLxipOFd0qzyWruUeZ7klZ8F_lYHiSzbvCjhnRrgPoxvjp73YOBClxyV4YfSNqE/s320/916qvcLNAyL._UX300__PJku-sticker-v7,TopRight,0,-50__BG0,0,0,0_FMpng_AC_UL320_SR214,320_.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="214" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHYsUymeVIXbALRDzlaZkrFLrDS9G4uHNsSi80R4P4grcuwYXBT5CKzA8C8Z6Mb1mve_5uJlN9GOsBKlxPG0UCsBGHMQv9H5MEAvXVugfnJwzhFMiliSXmN8ZmtFOtmLxipOFd0qzyWruUeZ7klZ8F_lYHiSzbvCjhnRrgPoxvjp73YOBClxyV4YfSNqE/w134-h200/916qvcLNAyL._UX300__PJku-sticker-v7,TopRight,0,-50__BG0,0,0,0_FMpng_AC_UL320_SR214,320_.png" width="134" /></a></div><br /><o:p></o:p><p></p>
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UK <a href="https://t.co/bhTSwXCXCC?amp=1" target="_blank">https://amzn.to/2H1tYzY</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0cm;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0cm;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: red; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0cm;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: red; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0cm;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: red; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0cm;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: red; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0cm;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: red; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0cm;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: red; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0cm;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: red; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0cm;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: red; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0cm;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: red; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0cm;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: red; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Here is Chapter One of A Summer Bewitchment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center; text-indent: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A SUMMER BEWITCHMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Knight and the Witch 2<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">LINDSAY TOWNSEND<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center; text-indent: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0cm;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Chapter 1<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">England,
summer, 1132<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I am the troll king of this land
and you owe me a forfeit.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Elfrida glanced behind the shadowed
figure who barred her way. He was alone, but then so was she. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do
I turn and run along the track? Should I flee into the woods or back to the
river? He is close, less than the distance of the cast of a spear. Can I make it
hard for him to catch me? Yes.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But catch her he would.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Play
for time. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Indeed?” she asked, using one of
her husband’s favorite expressions, then sharpened her tone. “Why must I pay
anything?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You have trespassed in these woods.
In my woods.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The nagging ache in her shoulders
and hands vanished in a tingling rush of anticipation. Elfrida dropped her
basket of washed, dried clothes onto the dusty pathway, the better to fight.
“King Henry is lord of England.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I am king here.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A point to him. “I kept to the path,
and then the river.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“That may be so, but I claim a
kiss.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He had not moved yet, nor shown his
face. The summer evening made his shadow huge, bloody. Her heart beating harder
as she anticipated their final, delicious encounter, Elfrida asked, “Are you so
bold? My husband is a mighty warrior, the greatest in all Christendom.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“That is a large claim.” He sounded
amused. “All Christendom? He must be a splendid fellow. The harpers should sing
of him.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Elfrida raised her chin, determined
to have her say. “I am proud of my lord. He is a crusader. He has seen
Jerusalem and he has learning. He can whistle any tune. He defends all those
weaker than himself.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Should I say what I
next want to say? Tease him as he has teased me? Why not? Are we are not
playing?</i> “Go back to your woods, troll king.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She heard the crack of a pine cone
as he shifted. In a haze of motion the troll king was out of the tree shade and
into the bright sunset, dominating the path in front of her. Taller than a
spear, broad as a door, he had a face as stark as granite, of weathered, broken
stone. Heavily scarred—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">many would say
grooved</i>—he had the terrible beauty of a victor, a winner wounded but
unbowed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A ribbon of heat, like hot breath,
flickered across her breasts. He was so magnificent , so handsome. She both
loved and hated defying him, even in jest. Striving for calm, she said, “You
will come no closer.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Or what, little laundress?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That tease irked her. “The clothes
and bedding do not wash themselves. Not even for you, troll king.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He smiled, a daunting unfurling of
that scarred, sword-cut face. The churning heat in her belly swept up into her
cheeks and down to her loins.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I am a witch, besides,” she added,
though not as coolly as she would have liked. She saw the gleam in his large
brown eyes pool into molten bronze.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You would put a spell on me,
elfling?” he challenged.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Perhaps I already have.” Her tone
and mouth were as dry as the summer. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How
much farther can we stretch this sweet foolishness?<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He raised thick black eyebrows,
while a breeze flicked and flirted with his shoulder-length curls. “Is that
Christian?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She wanted to cross her arms before
herself, to shield her body from his bold stare. At the same time she longed to
strip herself naked for him, unlace his tunic and caress him. Unsure how he
might react, she armed herself with words instead. “I am a good witch, Magnus.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Indeed.” Again he looked her up and
down, glanced at her buckets, basket, and clothes. “Should you not have an
escort, wife?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do
I tell him I sent Piers off to help? Are we still playing now or is he truly
angry?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Looming over her, he was close
enough for her to touch him. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">To caress
his strong body will be like stroking sun-warmed stone. </i>Distracted, she
shook her head. “There is the sheep shearing…”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Done.” He tossed a stack of rolled,
lanolin-scented fleeces at her feet. “I did my share and more and, as I have
said already, I claim a reward.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He winked at her and she found
herself smiling in return. “Forfeit and reward, too, sire? Is that not greedy?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Are we in Lent, that I should
fast?” He raised his hand, cupping her face with supple fingers. “But you are
too dainty to linger alone, witch or no.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He traced the curve of her lips with
his thumb and, as she trembled, he gathered her firmly into his arms. “Any man
will try to spirit you away.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Hush!” She made a sign against the
evil eye and wood elves, but he shook his head at her caution. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I have faith in your magic craft,
Elfrida. But a passing knave or outlaw? He is quite another matter. He would
see you as a tempting piece, my wife, my lovely.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I am not helpless,” she protested,
but her heart soared at his loving words. His mouth, as crooked and scarred as
the rest of his face, stole a kiss from hers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He smelled of lanolin, salt, and
summer green-stuff, and tasted of apples and himself. Elfrida closed her eyes
under his tender onslaught, her thighs trembling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Troll King?” she murmured, when
they broke apart slightly. “Is that how you wish me to address you in the
future, husband?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“‘Sire’ will do, or ‘greatest knight
in Christendom.’ Those will do very well.” He kissed her again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“You rob me, sire,” she murmured, a
breathless space later.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Of kisses?” He sounded delighted at
the idea, the beast, and grinned when she pinched him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Even one-handed I can do that
better than you.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He demonstrated, squeezing and
lightly slapping her bottom, chuckling as she thrust her hips back against his
fondling fingers. A shred of modesty remained as her wits dissolved into a
sweet blaze of need. “Magnus, what if someone comes?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">* * * *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Mark knows to keep them back.” Safe
in knowing his second in command would let no one disturb them for the rest of
the evening, Magnus sat down in the middle of the path and pulled his wife onto
his lap. She was pliant in his arms and as eager as himself, kissing his throat
and caressing his back while she murmured endearments in her own local dialect.
“Steady, lovely.” He stroked to soothe her, uncaring that such a tender act
made his desire more urgent. “Steady. We shall not be troubled by anyone, I
promise.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Daily he thanked God for her, his
Elfrida. They had found each other two seasons back, striving and facing
countless dangers together to free three brides from a deadly necromancer. He
had watched her push herself to her limits and beyond for others and, even more
strange and terrible, had seen <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">her </i>protect
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">him</i> from spirits and curses. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Snug and close as she was to him
now, his fiery witch revealed another side to her nature, passionate and
sweetly submissive. She could dispute like a scholar from Bologna, argue any
point, but in bed with him, or sitting on his knee now on this dry woodland
path, her loving trust in him was absolute.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He kissed her narrow palms<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">,</b> marveling aloud how smooth they were,
in spite of her scrubbing clothes in the river all day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“’Tis only a little charm and some
ointment I use.” She smiled at him. “But I regret, Magnus, that not even my
strongest magic can persuade a laundress to remain with us.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He knew that well enough and he knew
why. Of all the women in the world, only his Elfrida and a few others could
look beyond his mess of ugly sword scars, his missing hand and foot, and not be
afraid. Aside from a constant shortage of maids he no longer cared about his
looks, but to have his wife pound washing was another matter. “It is not
seemly.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Maybe so, husband, for a lady born
and bred, but I am a witch.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
a peasant lass</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, her eyes added, though she was
wise enough not to say that. He disliked reminders of their difference in
class. To him it no longer mattered, indeed had never mattered. “You are my
wife,” he growled.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I am and proud of it. But see, you
helped with the sheep shearing today. Washing sheets and stuff is nothing I
have not done before. And now you and Mark and the rest are always clad in clean
linen and woolens. Do you remember the stinking heap of filthy clothes I
discovered at your manor when we first arrived?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Magnus knew he was losing this. “Let
me pay a laundress in gold.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She tugged on his chest hairs, a
tingling reproof. “And then our woman cook would be offended, and my own
spinning maid. They would demand more, and so would the male head cook and the
farrier.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He kissed her before she named every
servant in the place. “Can you not give me a philter to make me less ugly?” he
teased.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Hush, you.” She wormed a soft hand
through his tunic laces and touched his strongly beating heart, flesh against
flesh. “As I have said before, you are most handsome, especially from the
back.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She laughed up at him, her amber
eyes bright with mischief.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Have a care, or I might say the
same—and do more.” Cupping her backside again, he savored how her lashes
trembled and her face flushed in response to his caress. He spanked her lightly
on her nether curves and she wrapped her arms tight about his neck.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Magnus,” she breathed, snuggling
into the crook of his arm, clinging as he drew her scarlet skirt up her legs
and tucked it round her slender middle. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He could wait no longer. Aching,
hard and more than ready for her, he sank his fingers into her, finding her
warm and open and more than ready for him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Sir,” she whispered, as he rolled
her off his lap and onto her back, taking care her head was pillowed by the
sheepskins. Sinking into her was the greatest luxury in Christendom and having
her move with him an infinite pleasure. Feeling like a pagan storm god, he rode
and gloried in her, savoring her moans, her blushes, her growing heat and that
final long, harp-string-tight shudder of delight. Dimly he heard his own wild
shout as he plunged after her into a heart-hammering, thunderous release.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">* * * *<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We should move,” Elfrida managed to
say, some uncounted time later. Languid, almost sinfully relaxed, she lounged
on top of her husband, wishing they could stay as they were. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Not yet,” grunted Magnus, trapping
her legs with one of his and hugging her. Matching her mood, he only opened his
eyes when she leaned up on him. “Watch those needle elbows, wife.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I need more of those.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Elbows?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Needles. Christina wants me to make
her some clothes.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“For her and her coming babe, no
doubt.” Magnus yawned and kissed her elbow. “Your sister and Walter are still
visiting for the midsummer?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Elfrida nodded. “Just after Saint
John’s day. Unless you do not wish it?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He shook his head, showing his
crooked smile. “Christina and her husband are always welcome at our house,
elfling.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even
though she chatters endlessly of babies, as she once used to gossip about her
wedding-day</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. Magnus was too gracious a host to
admit that. For an instant he did seem about to say more, but then he tipped
her off him and rolled swiftly to his feet. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Get behind me,” he whispered. “We
are no longer alone.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How
did Magnus hear and sense that when I did not? True, he is a warrior and these
are his woods, yet I am the witch! Am I so transported and undone by our
lovemaking as to be half blind after? Should I be? Is that a fault? Has my
marriage diminished my powers of magic?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Faster than quicksilver the
questions rushed through her as Magnus stood and straightened, standing before
her as a shield. She reached out beyond him with her mind, seeing Mark dashing
along the track, the low sun glinting on his ginger hair. She heard his panting
breath, caught glimpses of his thoughts and understood his alarm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She touched Magnus’s shoulder. “Mark
comes with news of strangers. Not knights or crusaders, pilgrims or travelers,
some others. One is a woman.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“A laundress?” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“A lady, I think,” Elfrida replied,
feeling as nervous as Mark looked. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
lady! How do I greet her? Is the hall swept and clean? Is there enough food,
enough fine bread? </i>“She and her companion want your help. They will ask you
for it soon.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She tried to smile, but Magnus knew
her too well to be fooled by her calm words. Without taking his eyes from the
careering Mark, he reached behind himself and took her hand in his.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Our help, Lady Elfrida. Ask for one
of us and they will have the pair of us, yes?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“If the cause is just, for sure,
yes.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.0pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As she spoke, a sweet-sour taste
filled her mouth, as if she had bitten on a crab apple. Elfrida swallowed the bitterness
and checked her skirts, smoothing her clothes and ensuring her mass of red hair
was hidden beneath her veil. Wishing she was wearing something better than her
faded scarlet, she prepared to hear more.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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She also dreams of something far less family-friendly. She has always longed to be dominated. During an acting course in Brighton, she decides to embrace her desires and makes a risky decision. She agrees to meet the stranger she has been talking to online for a mere few weeks.</p><p><br /></p><p>As the acting course progresses and Tilly begins to make friends, her texts with her online mystery man accelerate too. She worries whether she has made the right decision. Should she listen to her heart’s desire or pay attention to the warning signs? Is she in over her head?</p><p><br /></p><p>On the day they are due to meet, she races to the five star London hotel her date has arranged. She's running late, but she's ready to finally find out who he is. 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It read Happy Hostel. </b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>The thing was, I wasn’t exactly feeling happy. My fragility could be down to three main reasons.</b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>1. It was too early in the morning. Seven a.m. was a sickening time to get up.</b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>2. It was day one of my acting course. I always got nervous when starting something new.</b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>3. My recent love mission. My new dating venture was highly risky and completely out of my </b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><b style="font-family: "New serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;">comfort zone. It was taking over my mind. I couldn’t think about anything else.</b></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>As I washed my spoon and bowl in the industrial hostel kitchen sink, my phone pinged.</b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>I jumped in fright. It was him.</b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><i>What are you doing today?</i></b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>I texted back quickly. He didn’t like waiting.</b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>I’m starting my acting course today.</b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><i>I want to buy you lingerie.</i></b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>That was intimate. We’d only been texting for a few weeks. Should I tell him not to? </b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>But I could do with some new knickers. My favourite ones had lost the elastic in them and </b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>my nude bra’s lining had started coming out. My underwear was in a sorry state.</b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><i>You don’t have a matching white set, do you?</i></b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>No. I don’t. Thank you.</b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>My texts felt wooden but I knew he preferred it that way. He liked me to be straight to the point </b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>and just answer questions rather than talk too much. He had so many rules already.</b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><i><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b> </b></span></span><b style="font-family: "New serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;">Are w</b><b style="font-family: "New serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;">e still at 97%?</b></i></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>I smiled. We had a secret code already. Ninety-seven meant how much I was thinking about him. </b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>If it got to one hundred it would mean I was totally consumed and had no other thoughts whatsoever.</b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>S</b></span></span><b style="font-family: "New serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;">lightly le</b><b style="font-family: "New serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;">ss 96%. I thought I should be truthful. It’s only because of this course. </b></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><i><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>Yes. </b></span></span><b style="font-family: "New serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;">I’m happy about that. It allows me to push you more when I meet you. </b></i></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><b style="font-family: "New serif"; font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;">Because my percentage is higher it allows you to push me more?</b></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><i>Yes exactly, I demand 100% for just one moment . . .</i></b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>He was so intense. He was the only guy who’d felt right online. I’d chosen well. He made me feel</b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>like we were in a film.</b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><i>Have a good day beautiful.</i></b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>Thank you.</b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>I breathed out shakily. Why did this feel so scary? I couldn’t get distracted though. </b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>For now, I had to focus on my acting course. It was only a week long. I wanted to give it </b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>everything I had so I’d win an Oscar in two years’ time and nudge into the exclusive </b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>acting circle of Hollywood. I’d talk to Leonardo about dolphins and stand </b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>next to George silently. He’d appreciate silence. Plus, it would be nice to smell him. </b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>I bet his scent was intoxicating. I’d probably faint and have to be carried out on a stretcher. </b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>Hopefully, a famous film director would volunteer to accompany me to the hospital. </b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>Once I’d regained consciousness, we’d talk about my expressive face and how </b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>I’d be perfect in his next film.</b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><br /></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="height: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span style="font-family: New serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; word-spacing: 1px;"><b>Matilda Swinney</b></span></span></p><p class="yiv2936112686MsoNormal" style="color: #313131; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm; word-spacing: 1px;"><span style="font-family: "New serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://thegirlwhojumped.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Girl Who Jumped</span></a></span></p></div></div></div></div><div class="jb_0 X_6MGW N_6Fd5" style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 16px;"></div></div>Lindsay Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11513558547686982857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350339348313810194.post-48229006070924588782021-12-16T08:25:00.000+00:002021-12-16T08:25:06.922+00:00LILLIAN AND THE ITALIANS - Mystery and Romance by David Gee <span face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #181818; font-size: 11.5pt;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjm4Rm3yzv1ndDIYqUDyufV3-65gokrlNkO6dIHIgx6sgsAZjwL-e4X6mPtvlNogjmb6Vkf-X1t9rTJ3LEnxjYElzzbQgdKE5jls3CcGnSnLKV_FEKNZAsOVs9-k72DPZBr2BSSA7EAhq7ZyJsQVCOCEEphyM5kbK_3eA2syWA6QxFRWhCBjGUv1Bmo=s2347" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2347" data-original-width="1520" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjm4Rm3yzv1ndDIYqUDyufV3-65gokrlNkO6dIHIgx6sgsAZjwL-e4X6mPtvlNogjmb6Vkf-X1t9rTJ3LEnxjYElzzbQgdKE5jls3CcGnSnLKV_FEKNZAsOVs9-k72DPZBr2BSSA7EAhq7ZyJsQVCOCEEphyM5kbK_3eA2syWA6QxFRWhCBjGUv1Bmo=s320" width="207" /></a></div><br />Looking for her wayward son in 1960s Italy, an English widow encounters revelations and begins a dangerous romance.</b></span><span face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-size: 11.5pt;"><br clear="none" /></span><div><span face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #181818; font-size: 11.5pt;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #181818; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> </span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 11.5pt;">In Venice Lillian Rutherford meets the ex-gigolo who has shared the last four years of Andrew’s life; his disclosures force her to confront a side of her son that she never suspected. Going on to Amalfi, she meets the charismatic Prince Massimo Monfalcone, whose playboy son is being held to ransom in Corsica with Andrew. Massimo distracts Lillian with his life story: his first wife was murdered in a Sicilian blood-feud; his second wife killed herself because of his infidelity. As they wait for news of their sons, a bond grows between Lillian and the Prince...</span><span style="color: black; font-family: New; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></span></div><div><span face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #181818; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: New; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #181818; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: New; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Excerpt </b></span></span></div><div><span face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #181818; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: New; font-size: 14pt;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Extract from LILLIAN AND THE ITALIANS by
DAVID GEE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; page-break-after: avoid;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; page-break-after: avoid;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Venice 1966. Lillian
Rutherford is dining on the island of Torcello with Carlo Marini, the ex-gigolo
who has shared the last four years of her son Andrew’s life. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; page-break-after: avoid;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; page-break-after: avoid;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Lillian
declined a dessert or a liqueur. She drank a cup of black coffee while Carlo
ate a chunk of stale-looking local cheese and served himself from a bottle of
grappa which the wine-steward left on the table.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; page-break-after: avoid; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She was sure there was more – much more – to be told.
‘You said something earlier about a scandal two years ago,’ she reminded him;
‘and some people leaving under a cloud. Was Andrew involved with these people?’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; page-break-after: avoid; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘Well, yes, he was,’ Carlo admitted. ‘Except that he
didn’t really get into that set until the year they left. For our first year we
were busy just trying to make ends meet, although right from the start Andrew
was sniffing out the local scene to see who was worth getting to know.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; page-break-after: avoid; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘But why did these people leave?’ Lillian persisted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; page-break-after: avoid; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Carlo paused for a moment, sipping his grappa, before
embarking on a description of what he called ‘the moral climate of Venice’. In
spite of all the nobility and the artists and the Jet Set visitors it remained,
he said, a small and gossipy community, very provincial: ‘a lot like Hastings,
according to Andrew!’ Lillian laughed at this improbable comparison. Every
season produced its crop of scenes and scandals, he went on, and certain
families were known to have outrageous skeletons in their closets; but for the
most part the residents led circumspect lives in a town where it was impossible
to keep anything secret for long.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; page-break-after: avoid; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In recent years a number of very rich new immigrants had
settled in the city, buying and restoring apartments and palaces, entertaining
and befriending the local nobility and expatriate artists. During the summer of
1964, one of these newcomers had exceeded the relatively elastic bounds of
propriety by insulting the wife of the chief-of-police on the beach at Lido.
The incident triggered a strong reaction from the normally easy-going <i>questura</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; page-break-after: avoid; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The first victim of the ensuing ‘purge’ was not the man
who had offended the <i>questore’</i>s wife
but an art-dealer from London who, despite the intercessions of influential
friends, was expelled from the country. He was put on a train to Paris where,
within days, he committed suicide. Others were similarly ejected or had their
residency permits revoked. A few more chose flight as the wisest course,
resulting in a minor exodus in the autumn of 1964.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="mso-pagination: none; page-break-after: avoid;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘And
was Andrew involved in this “exodus”?’ Lillian asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; page-break-after: avoid; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘It was about then that we moved to Burano,’ said Carlo.
‘Although this really had nothing to do with it.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; page-break-after: avoid; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘But why did they leave?’ she enquired again. ‘This poor
man who killed himself, what was he guilty of?’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; page-break-after: avoid; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Carlo poured himself another grappa. ‘Well, the <i>questore</i> – chief-of-police – was a
strange and vindictive man, a Sicilian. He had a few bees in his bonnet:
Communists –’ he shrugged – ‘and one or two other things.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; page-break-after: avoid; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">She gave a derisive laugh. ‘Come now, Sharlz – I’m sorry
– Carlo – I know I’m just a country bumpkin, but you can’t expect me to believe
that people who could afford to restore palaces were Communist sympathizers.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; page-break-after: avoid; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Carlo drained his glass at a single draught. He looked
straight at her.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; page-break-after: avoid; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘They were homosexuals,’ he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; page-break-after: avoid; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">A waiter refilled Lillian’s coffee-cup. She picked it up
with fingers that suddenly trembled. ‘Are you trying to tell me that my son is
a homosexual?’ She pronounced the word in the popular English manner, with a
long first ‘o’: <i>Homer-sexual</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; page-break-after: avoid; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">‘I’m sorry, Mrs Rutherford,’ Carlo said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Third Biker Romance in the Macha MC Series<div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzR0aTDreqh5XF4RNFgRTO75235TccH_c7Q8DuCbNBNj6pwjYisC7Xw2crpVt_2LGkGvkOklU-_NG2160H9N50vHjGHn4OP4T_cGFssSwExr4V5Coz66O8eC1jzDeq8KvSCoFYhbmpw9s/s2048/Rubble_forjpegs_frontcover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1295" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzR0aTDreqh5XF4RNFgRTO75235TccH_c7Q8DuCbNBNj6pwjYisC7Xw2crpVt_2LGkGvkOklU-_NG2160H9N50vHjGHn4OP4T_cGFssSwExr4V5Coz66O8eC1jzDeq8KvSCoFYhbmpw9s/w253-h400/Rubble_forjpegs_frontcover.jpg" width="253" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>𝙎𝙝𝙚'𝙨 𝙨𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙣 𝙤𝙛𝙛 𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥𝙨. 𝙃𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙣𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙡. 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Jupiter Quinn is on the run from an abusive relationship. Finding shelter in Macha MC, her goal is to keep her head down until the divorce is finalized. What Jupiter doesn’t expect is to fall for the club’s toughest man who also happens to be a former MMA fighter.
<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Rubble Hardy is Macha’s sergeant at arms and enforcer for the club. He doesn’t date. Never has and never will. Women are trouble and he’s not about to let down his guard. But when Jupiter Quinn walks through the club doors, his heart shifts, and the powerful desire to protect her only outweighs his feelings.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih_Nw_R99QjrUPZTmrXVzyp9kRh0Xfba1UOr3BPoKnFN_rSqcNozrcLMbX9_Jioj2SRpMXl8mHfkHJjmAZ9mbs1Y1fpTEnKyOGc0bMShXjKO9PjMDFKva9YvCeTGf0HYWcoWzZKXJ9Knk/s1080/Rubble+1+bad+guy+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih_Nw_R99QjrUPZTmrXVzyp9kRh0Xfba1UOr3BPoKnFN_rSqcNozrcLMbX9_Jioj2SRpMXl8mHfkHJjmAZ9mbs1Y1fpTEnKyOGc0bMShXjKO9PjMDFKva9YvCeTGf0HYWcoWzZKXJ9Knk/s320/Rubble+1+bad+guy+%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div>When Jupiter’s past collides with her newfound future, she’s forced to either flee or face the danger.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Can Rubble keep her safe, or will they tap out? </div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div></div><div><div><a href="http://www.skyemcneil.com/">Skye McNeil</a></div></div></div><div><i>Author of </i><i>Romantic Suspense & Contemporary Romance novels that are smart, sexy, and sassy.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Lindsay Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11513558547686982857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350339348313810194.post-63389487121926971622021-03-13T00:00:00.001+00:002021-03-13T00:00:32.011+00:00"Kevlar" - A motorcycle romance by Skye McNeil<div class="msg-body P_wpofO mq_AS" data-test-id="message-view-body-content" style="color: #1d2228; 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Her well-thought plan goes awry and Kevlar must save her before it’s too late and she’s lost forever.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Will the club bring them together or tear them apart?</span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR9PcDvBN7YLlz9ZF-BVrIxRttAhXR8nI4U7WycKxpdygbHarX6_wsJSwQfISQlj224wwgc3VR6aZbGK1OKfuyHlHWicxpGmHKOc6njAuxskdvlHDymTsm2kwZ0iCKvbpq6bULCLFL48Q/s400/thumbnail+Kevlar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR9PcDvBN7YLlz9ZF-BVrIxRttAhXR8nI4U7WycKxpdygbHarX6_wsJSwQfISQlj224wwgc3VR6aZbGK1OKfuyHlHWicxpGmHKOc6njAuxskdvlHDymTsm2kwZ0iCKvbpq6bULCLFL48Q/s320/thumbnail+Kevlar.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Thank you for your consideration. </div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="yiv0313326260gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: small;">Skye McNeil</div><div style="font-size: small;"><i style="color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Author of Romantic Suspense & Contemporary Romance novels that are smart, sexy, and sassy.</i></div><div style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.skyemcneil.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">www.skyemcneil.com</a></div><div style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/skyesthelimitwriting" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">Facebook Fan Page</a></div><div style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.twitter.com/skye_mcneil7" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">Twitter</a></div><div style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/skyemcneil" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">Goodreads</a></div><div style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.bookbub.com/profile/skye-mcneil" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">BookBub</a></div><div style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/mcneilskye" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #196ad4;" target="_blank">Instagram</a><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="jb_0 X_6MGW N_6Fd5" style="color: #1d2228; font-family: YahooSans, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 16px;"><div class="P_0 je_fq7" style="padding: 0px;"><ul class="hd_n D_F eo_HB M_gQyVX P_0" style="display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><li class="E_6Fd5 Y_6LEV" data-test-id="attachment-tray-list-item" style="margin-right: 16px; margin-top: 20px;"><div class="W_3n93F p_R" data-test-id="attachment-item" style="position: relative; width: 120px;"><div class="I_2iedTo k_w H_7yHc p_R o_h" data-test-id="attachment-container" style="background-color: rgba(24, 143, 255, 0.05); box-sizing: border-box; height: 80px; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"><div class="D_F ab_C gl_C H_6D6F" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-pack: center; align-items: center; display: flex; height: 80px; justify-content: center;"><img class="W_6D6F" data-test-id="attachment-thumbnail" src="https://apis.mail.yahoo.com/ws/v3/mailboxes/@.id==VjN-W41DkoTYOOegvAlRm32L4NdqMtGjz9xzYS3jcFNqPYUJi1jbBN-0GvG1wLFjge0cU641Z2KMyFu1tvoP7K4UJw/messages/@.id==ANaqivgbLpCjYDe48wn-mNC4Co8/content/parts/@.id==2/thumbnail?appid=YMailNorrinLaunch&size=400w&w=400&h=400" style="width: 120px;" /></div></div></div></li></ul></div></div>Lindsay Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11513558547686982857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350339348313810194.post-15882283555680200212020-12-17T09:45:00.001+00:002020-12-17T09:45:36.849+00:00Published today! 6 full-length Medieval Historical Romances Box set. 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Under $3.00/£2.50 for SIX full book-length romances!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Tfc3jUvCBCz6br6GrSZjF1MgytpPcl1p3ufTnl0fmDOxhIYNc2vH2vu3DhSNijnLAQFr7a-LytlsACV-ndEASpL_3qZOux1vyElTDGSrlMdvzcLp3ce3qvBxCJWUdsToUbA7B1TfQzI/s2048/One+Perfect+Knight.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1288" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Tfc3jUvCBCz6br6GrSZjF1MgytpPcl1p3ufTnl0fmDOxhIYNc2vH2vu3DhSNijnLAQFr7a-LytlsACV-ndEASpL_3qZOux1vyElTDGSrlMdvzcLp3ce3qvBxCJWUdsToUbA7B1TfQzI/s320/One+Perfect+Knight.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p> <b>ONE PERFECT KNIGHT BOXED SET</b></p><p></p><p><b><i>Blurb</i></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Your knight in shining armor is waiting to tell his exciting story in this new boxed-set release from Prairie Rose Publications! <b>ONE PERFECT KNIGHT</b> is a fantastic collection of SIX full book-length tales of beautiful medieval ladies and their dangerous men as they discover the magic of love! These exciting stories are sure to capture your imagination as you travel back in time to those romantic days of knights and ladies in medieval times! Handsome warriors, valiant knights, or valorous common men of the day—all will meet their matches with the daring and unusual women they happen to fall in love with, and you won’t want to put this boxed set down until you’ve read the very last story!</p><p>Authors Deborah Macgillivray, Lindsay Townsend, Cynthia Breeding, Linda Swift, Keena Kincaid, and Livia J. Washburn spin six incredible novel-length love stories filled with danger, excitement, and romance that will keep you turning page after incredible page until the very end. What could be better than ONE PERFECT KNIGHT? How about six fabulous stories of knights, warriors, and noblemen who want nothing more than to live happily ever after—in love—with the women in their lives?</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2r_qZAEFrESn-WHP9f7cak0LT41P2DpT0fwvN1wAXY1pF2qCjguh_x0chGfy-3RtHp_ZlOMmkxeGi1C7MrnkZcKKwJlyiCKRipxD5DvBQ_585piAibBaVUGtMe1fNF5aDe6gUldm_c4NM/s100/51lJefflKDL._UX300_PJku-sticker-v7%252CTopRight%252C0%252C-50_SL100_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="100" data-original-width="58" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2r_qZAEFrESn-WHP9f7cak0LT41P2DpT0fwvN1wAXY1pF2qCjguh_x0chGfy-3RtHp_ZlOMmkxeGi1C7MrnkZcKKwJlyiCKRipxD5DvBQ_585piAibBaVUGtMe1fNF5aDe6gUldm_c4NM/s0/51lJefflKDL._UX300_PJku-sticker-v7%252CTopRight%252C0%252C-50_SL100_.jpg" /></a></div><br /><b>A RESTLESS KNIGHT—DEBORAH MACGILLIVRAY</b><p></p><p>Had the music stopped, or had she just ceased to hear it? All she could do was stare into the dragon green eyes. Drown in them. This man was her destiny. Nothing else mattered. Lost in the power, Tamlyn was not aware of the hundreds of other people around them or their celebrating. To her, the world stood still, narrowed, until there was nothing but the star-filled night. And Challon.</p><p><br /></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFXSltxH-po1a904KvbtNr6hrBQSfxOKOdPzWXXmwTFRBnx57Vc6mhZ0KJ-BWXn7EpG8KTL0eLqAMqzAGP7PwOKfuVatq43u6AlQP15XDKUaC2q21pt0oTnlAU7tSbOwKOtapht2llHrg5/s320/916qvcLNAyL._UX300__PJku-sticker-v7%252CTopRight%252C0%252C-50__BG0%252C0%252C0%252C0_FMpng_AC_UL320_SR214%252C320_.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="214" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFXSltxH-po1a904KvbtNr6hrBQSfxOKOdPzWXXmwTFRBnx57Vc6mhZ0KJ-BWXn7EpG8KTL0eLqAMqzAGP7PwOKfuVatq43u6AlQP15XDKUaC2q21pt0oTnlAU7tSbOwKOtapht2llHrg5/w134-h200/916qvcLNAyL._UX300__PJku-sticker-v7%252CTopRight%252C0%252C-50__BG0%252C0%252C0%252C0_FMpng_AC_UL320_SR214%252C320_.png" width="134" /></a></b></div><b><br />THE SNOW BRIDE—LINDSAY TOWNSEND</b><p></p><p><b><i>She is Beauty but is he the Beast?</i></b></p><p>Beautiful Elfrida is the witch of the woods, and no man dares to ask for her hand in marriage until a beast comes stalking brides and steals away her sister. Desperate, Elfrida offers herself as a sacrifice, and is seized by a man with fearful scars. Is he the beast—or will he save her, as well as the other young women who have disappeared? Sir Magnus, battle-hardened knight of the Crusades, has finished with love, until he rescues a fourth 'bride', the red-haired Elfrida, whose touch ignites a fierce passion that satisfies his deepest yearnings and darkest desires.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHNouPbJ0wM8Ko2tQca9R7AiRwvUi3FvQNu3Dsp__6Ixdqwhzknr9BJvlPiZROYhzZMF9y9T6av6KMLsZ9-F1LCsei0mVaKtNh9B2lIV3Wk7kuuBv8oA_iO_IXUdR0LRpODUEIHrsx9b7c/s500/51iAZdyBHFL.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHNouPbJ0wM8Ko2tQca9R7AiRwvUi3FvQNu3Dsp__6Ixdqwhzknr9BJvlPiZROYhzZMF9y9T6av6KMLsZ9-F1LCsei0mVaKtNh9B2lIV3Wk7kuuBv8oA_iO_IXUdR0LRpODUEIHrsx9b7c/w133-h200/51iAZdyBHFL.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><br />CAMELOT’S DESTINY—CYNTHIA BREEDING<p></p><p>The legend of Camelot is born and, with it, bold passions and forbidden desire. Fiery-tempered Gwenhwyfar is chosen by Arthur to be his wife and queen… Seared by the forbidden kiss of Arthur’s most-trusted warrior, Lancelot, Gwenhwyfar is swept into a world of passion, torn by loyalty and love to a husband who betrays her and a man she cannot have. But in a time where good and evil clash, where magic and chivalry reign, love will prove a weapon as powerful as any sword.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja978IXIVYJdSfZGt4EOI3qHxryiQqJyy5uh63u9hqloBttjeQqBPl8kWvXoYstn83Y7Qb3QInzLd5mYrr4AWumbrgErBEeoTL2yOXs-pPUhkhK4iD5YWVeQodUqla3ZhKcXc932UGuWV5/s218/911ctSu1p0L._AC_UY218_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="145" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja978IXIVYJdSfZGt4EOI3qHxryiQqJyy5uh63u9hqloBttjeQqBPl8kWvXoYstn83Y7Qb3QInzLd5mYrr4AWumbrgErBEeoTL2yOXs-pPUhkhK4iD5YWVeQodUqla3ZhKcXc932UGuWV5/w133-h200/911ctSu1p0L._AC_UY218_.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><br />MISTRESS OF HUNTLEIGH HALL—LINDA SWIFT<p></p><p>Wait for me… Malcolm Gray asks only one thing of Alice Wykeham when he goes to sea. But ten long years go by, and Alice is forced to marry an elderly lord who is eager to claim her dowry. Malcolm has been shipwrecked and severely injured, but when he heals, he remains nearby in disguise, too late to claim his true love. When Alice discovers the lord is involved in a treasonous plan to overthrow the king, she must do something—it could be the death of her, along with Malcolm, the only man she will ever love…</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjysw_jkdOC9JnQUeAgzeqH7ijB9UQ_nTbW3m3rT3sOIktBmfzHu4ddgy6GKG-DaRc8JDQ8lDKgtntvtoAtms3H8_HCJKNu84GtzCtmcjvDZP4szRV-VfuoGqL67A17XgmbyIZ4SH9HGgFy/s218/91eYHRwSFYL._AC_UY218_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="145" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjysw_jkdOC9JnQUeAgzeqH7ijB9UQ_nTbW3m3rT3sOIktBmfzHu4ddgy6GKG-DaRc8JDQ8lDKgtntvtoAtms3H8_HCJKNu84GtzCtmcjvDZP4szRV-VfuoGqL67A17XgmbyIZ4SH9HGgFy/w133-h200/91eYHRwSFYL._AC_UY218_.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><br />ART OF LOVE—KEENA KINCAID<p></p><p>Abigail d'Alene has been in love with learning all her life, and she now has the means to indulge in her passion. Disguised as a boy, she heads to Paris and the abbey schools that will one day change the world. Shocked by the ineptitude of her masquerade, Alain of Huntly Woods takes Abigail under his protection until she recovers her senses. But her audacity and intelligence spark unexpected passion. When Alain discovers Abigail's uncle plots against the English king, Alain must choose between protecting his king or the woman he loves.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ot-WxxU5AmSTbsOgNRBl_ffEHND2TSF2fN-N8TY3JpdUCdkCJ_GoQJV8-JZOf2G7b0DKA0nhwKub0t2Peg0zG1JrKIUvC0HBjhCDRyw8i45gMYpoQlxQdFgxhFALEeTwJZ-aRxtZmTzb/s218/913GeR4DrML._AC_UY218_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="145" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1ot-WxxU5AmSTbsOgNRBl_ffEHND2TSF2fN-N8TY3JpdUCdkCJ_GoQJV8-JZOf2G7b0DKA0nhwKub0t2Peg0zG1JrKIUvC0HBjhCDRyw8i45gMYpoQlxQdFgxhFALEeTwJZ-aRxtZmTzb/w133-h200/913GeR4DrML._AC_UY218_.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><br />ALURA’S WISH—LIVIA J. WASHBURN<p></p><p>In the fire opals of an ancient treasure live two djinn. Once freed from the stones, these immortal spirits will serve this master's commands. But these djinn also have another purpose—to bring the wearer a true and lasting love… Can a reluctant bride find unexpected happiness with the dark knight, Sir Connor Warrick, she agrees to marry for the sake of honor and duty? The brilliant opals of the exquisite slave bracelet unlock a magic unlike any Lady Alura has ever imagined…and a love more rare than any jewel…</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwpKQ70YHBnOpwmVCxqbPxxMZy5_rzB6Y_ssiZ0eDJ9Pq3q1Jj5LoqOd_ijzIbO-3O90gJEpDazI4zkicOliDJI-zcXjH5zjfUq9kylePKaiUCsvLmqVXS9mrD37uQvWelgAmHk1FG8F8Q/s1024/One+Perfect+Knight+Box+Set+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="841" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwpKQ70YHBnOpwmVCxqbPxxMZy5_rzB6Y_ssiZ0eDJ9Pq3q1Jj5LoqOd_ijzIbO-3O90gJEpDazI4zkicOliDJI-zcXjH5zjfUq9kylePKaiUCsvLmqVXS9mrD37uQvWelgAmHk1FG8F8Q/s320/One+Perfect+Knight+Box+Set+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p><b><i>Free to read with KindleUnlimited</i></b></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/One-Perfect-Knight-Full-Length-Medieval-ebook/dp/B08QG12MQT/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=prairie+rose+publications&qid=1607855454&s=digital-text&sr=1-2">Amazon Com</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08QG12MQT/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=prairie+rose+publications&qid=1607855607&s=books&sr=1-1">Amazon Co UK</a></p></div>Lindsay Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11513558547686982857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350339348313810194.post-69232061555553390892020-11-01T09:54:00.001+00:002020-11-01T09:54:24.338+00:00Viking Romance! The Viking and the Pictish Princess. Pre-order, out Nov 5th. Excerpt<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbhCWC0norNX2TCtC0TEL4bduEUWvlMnqmNd-w-f0kwNHlK_DmoD1VrKGXsfaDi8_DVYZ0dW3E_mVurpwv6oaQPEDKrfJ8Wr3wVffNNG2ExRLuA5rorXVI-GzEBWC4HS36iCdqXClKCFg/s500/51a1Whx9VtL+Viking+and+Pictish+Princess+Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="333" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbhCWC0norNX2TCtC0TEL4bduEUWvlMnqmNd-w-f0kwNHlK_DmoD1VrKGXsfaDi8_DVYZ0dW3E_mVurpwv6oaQPEDKrfJ8Wr3wVffNNG2ExRLuA5rorXVI-GzEBWC4HS36iCdqXClKCFg/s320/51a1Whx9VtL+Viking+and+Pictish+Princess+Cover.jpg" /></a></div><br />THE VIKING AND THE PICTISH PRINCESS <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08LTGYTHV/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i20">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08LTGYTHV/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i20</a><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://amzn.to/3jA5bDvUK">https://amzn.to/3jA5bDvUK</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08LTGYTHV/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i13">https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08LTGYTHV/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i13</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://amzn.to/3jA52Qt">https://amzn.to/3jA52Qt</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Excerpt</b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The lone figure rose silently from the loch. Emerging from the grey shimmer of a winter morning with water sheeting off his body, he glided over the submerged boulders onto the shore of her island. Bindweed scrambled into a holly tree and dropped to the parched ground. She gritted her teeth against the shout surging up her dry throat, old fears from the past made real.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Viking!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">He was big, this invader, big as a king stag of the forest, tanned, barrel chested and with arms thicker than her legs. His black hair, dark as December pine cones, matted itself to his skull in long streamers of shadow and eyes, the colour of storm clouds, were quick and piercing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Black Norse,” Bindweed muttered, not daring to stir as that fierce grey gaze swept over her hiding place. His thick gold collar and armlets flashed when he strode by, arrogant as a lord. He moved with the swift, quiet grace of a warrior, the low winter sun illuminating his leather tunic and trews, the long dagger strapped to one thigh, his sword on the other.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Spy or assassin, Bindweed wondered, watching his retreating back. He made for her cave-house as if he had walked the path a hundred times, though she doubted he sought her skill in herb-lore. Still she did not stir.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The first snare on the trail he avoided with a snort of humour, the second, set below a seeming bed of innocent pine needles, swallowed him whole. Bindweed was out of the holly and sprinting before the Viking had stopped his bellow of surprise. A quick jerk of the rope hidden by ivy had the nets and timber unravelling and the trap closed. She quickly pinned it down, panting hard as she rolled the lock-stone in place.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Thirteen feet below, in the round pit it had taken her three summers to dig and harden with fire, the black Norse prowled, thumping the sheer walls and slamming the mud-churned floor. He would not look at her. Bindweed did not care.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“No one comes here,” she lied—why tell truth to the enemy? “Yell away,” she added, when the stranger’s mighty chest swelled like organ bellows. “None shall hear.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The Viking lunged up. She stamped his clenching fingers off the timbers and nets and he cursed and spat. “Food later,” she told him, spotting how his eyes narrowed briefly in calculation. <i>He understands me, then</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">It did not matter. Tomorrow night she would lace his portion and his ale with enough sleeping draught to fell an ox and then drag him out, to question at her leisure. <i>Thank the stag god and the great mother that I heeded my instincts four summers ago to fashion these traps. Sometimes my senses are not only tuned to women’s healing, but to more brutal matters of survival.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She had no time to celebrate, however. Now she was exhausted, harp-string taut tension replaced by a yawning tiredness. Without troubling to undress, she stumbled into her bed and slept.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She dreamed of her past, an old horrific recollection, that began, as too often, with screaming.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">****<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She was seven summers old when her father Giric killed her mother. Nothing as quick or kind as a knife, but his selling of Kentigerna bright-hair into slavery, to a Viking, was still murder. Years later, she had never forgiven the old man, nor forgotten her mother’s screams.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She had tried to follow the Viking’s longship, running hard for the track by the loch. Mongfind, her half-sister, older and bigger than her by two summers, had grabbed her. After hearing Mongfind’s shouts, Giric himself had seized and flung the little one, flailing and punching, into the ancient black broch that gave the people their name.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She had hammered on the locked door until her knuckles were bloodied, then sprinted up the winding staircase to the roof of the broch. Seeing a flash of her Ma’s bright red hair in the longship’s bowels, she had clambered right over the thick circular walls of the broch and leapt down.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Me, too!” she yelled in her later dreams, though she could not remember if she spoke the words. She only knew that if the ship sailed, she would never see her mother again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; tab-stops: 382.5pt;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Seven years old, I knew this! But then bastards have to grow up fast. <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; tab-stops: 382.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She landed in a mess of heather, winded and broken. She scrambled to rise and a searing pain in her left foot seized her whole leg. Too shattered to scream, too shocked to move, she watched the Viking longship and her mother sail away.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; tab-stops: 382.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Irish Maeve, old and wrinkled as a dried out leather flask, prodded her with her walking stick.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; tab-stops: 382.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“You will do, now get up. There’s work!” Maeve ordered, laughing as she burst into tears. “Get to it, Bindweed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; tab-stops: 382.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“She clings,” Maeve told the whispering onlookers, who smirked or shook their heads and turned away.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; tab-stops: 382.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">From that day, the little girl was Maeve’s servant. The name her mother gave her was forgotten and all knew her as Bindweed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; tab-stops: 382.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Later, Bindweed learned, a travelling tinker who had a taste for young things had wanted to buy her, but Irish Maeve had refused his offer. <i>But only because I was quick and clever</i>. She never forgot how the old woman had laughed at her hurt and grief, how the others in her father’s fort had turned away.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; tab-stops: 382.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She never saw her mother again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; tab-stops: 382.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> Six years later Irish Maeve died in her sleep. Bindweed buried her mentor on their island home and mourned for three nights, as custom demanded. On the dawn of the fourth day, she poured the ashes of a barley loaf over the new grave and squeezed a final tear from her smarting eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; tab-stops: 382.5pt;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Enough of that, as Maeve would say. I respected her as a healer, but no deeper feeling than that. She took me in for her own convenience and laughed at my grief. Though she did keep the secret of the smaller cave, so there was that.</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; tab-stops: 382.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Bindweed patted the cold earth once, in valediction, and turned back to the small cave where she and the Irish wise-woman had made a dwelling and a home of sorts She was Bindweed Silverhair, wise-woman of the loch, keeper of the island pool, the one maidens and womenfolk turned to so she might heal their hurts. Poultice their beasts. Charm the chickens into laying more eggs. No one now remembered she was the bastard get of Giric the Harsh, a warrior and giver of gold, who had sold his own mistress, her mother Kentigerna, into slavery.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; tab-stops: 382.5pt;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Lightning strike him down for that! Why does Giric thrive? Why do his well-fed, well-dressed legitimate sons and daughters parade through this land like the blessed children of fairy. Not that I wish them ill, but still—<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; tab-stops: 382.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Revenge did not interest her, for that would merely prove she cared about Giric’s ill-nature. She had a home and skills, a name she had made respected. She ate well, even in winter and before harvest-time. No man would want to wed her, with only this scrap of a wooded islet as her land dowry, but she might take a handsome highlander as a lover, someone quick and wick and small as herself.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; tab-stops: 382.5pt;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">No boy with light blue eyes, though, no youth with a beard like Giric’s. Send me a sunny lad, nimble with his fingers—<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; tab-stops: 382.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A long, low snore from nearby brought Bindweed stark awake. It was time for her to move.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; tab-stops: 382.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Time to spar with the Viking again. <i>Even if the brute sleeps.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">****<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Olaf came to with a pounding mead-style headache and a sick stomach. Twitching sore limbs he found himself bound, hand and foot, and blindfolded.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Drink!”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A pot clashed against his teeth and he guzzled the weak ale, soothing both headache and sore jaws. “Why did you not slit my throat?” he demanded, after the cup was withdrawn.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“I heal, not kill.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A young female. Another wise woman? Olaf risked a confession. “I was told the witch Irish Maeve was dead, her place empty. I planned to move in for the coming winter.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Who told you that? In truth, you cannot. I am her heir.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“No one mentioned you.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“No one ever does.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">When the wench said nothing more, he did not deign to respond to her question but asked, “What did you drug me with?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Drenched-salted the food, spiked the ale.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">He sensed her smirk and his bound fists clenched. She had admitted nothing new. “My men will find me.” <i>And kill you</i>. The threat went unspoken but hung like a gibbet between them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">A rustle like dry leaves made Olaf turn sharply to his left but the woman was already drawing back, leaving a whiff of lavender and a touch of the soft wool of her skirts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“You will mend.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">True, since his headache was almost gone, though he tensed in irritation at her ignoring his warning. “And my men will still find me.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“You have lain in my pit for two days, been sleeping hard for a day and a night, and none have come looking for you. Now there is fog. No ships in or out of the loch, y’ken?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">He breathed in deeply against her mockery, savouring her perfume afresh. “Aye.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“No men are allowed here on Maiden’s Isle. For despoiling this sacred space I could spell you with ill luck for the rest of your life.” She paused, allowing the silence to grow, then delivered her final threat. “The curse would stick.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Dread iced up his spine. <i>Has my bad luck tracked me from Byzantium? Fore God, it has been evil since Karl’s death</i>. Grief sleeted through Olaf afresh at the memory of his brother-in-arms, dead these six months and entombed in the white marble of Constantinople.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“What do you want from me?” he demanded. Anything to stop thinking of Karl, cut down in ambush in an arid city street, hundreds of miles away.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“Your name. Why you are on the run. The truth.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“I am Olaf No-Kin.” He did not ask how the wise woman knew he had neither ship nor men, though he inwardly cursed the loss of that flimsy advantage. <i>How can I do anything if she does not respect me?</i> “I quit my lord Ragnar’s service and took the first passage I could to Alba to offer my sword to a laird of the Picts.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 32px; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 32px; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“A mercenary. Why, if you left his war-band, does this Ragnar pursue you?” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Published by Prairie Rose Publications, this novel is available for pre-order and will be out on November 5th.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Lindsa Townsend</b></p>Lindsay Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11513558547686982857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350339348313810194.post-76607577799722100942020-08-14T11:42:00.001+01:002020-08-14T11:42:11.698+01:00Crowning Glories - My love of hair & how I use hair in my romances. Plus Excerpts!<p> I admit it. I have a 'thing' about hair in my writing.</p><br />Not in real life. My hair is brown going grey and tough. It goes its own way and if it's cut 'wrong' then it will spike. I have it cut short and leave it alone. We get along fine. But in my romance novels, I <em>love</em> hair.<br /><br />What colour will the herone's hair be? How long? Wavy? Curly? I always like to imagine my main female character's hair. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu7vEIDQE4VH1VebHXdF8_WmFZXWU-W5xUeAvHvXV0X3dZ6n6bb1fFhn6VfCuLk7ZvsvWzic6BaXkBp6va76tXuY6-n9Y1V5-OHhAOvslGAcQBeNSWk2RcJZViLHvU4GeDhptYSMwXt0Y/s1600/MistressAngelKDP.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1068" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu7vEIDQE4VH1VebHXdF8_WmFZXWU-W5xUeAvHvXV0X3dZ6n6bb1fFhn6VfCuLk7ZvsvWzic6BaXkBp6va76tXuY6-n9Y1V5-OHhAOvslGAcQBeNSWk2RcJZViLHvU4GeDhptYSMwXt0Y/s200/MistressAngelKDP.jpg" width="133" /></a></div>Many romance novels have blond or auburn haired heroines. Isabella, my heroine from my novella "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Mistress-Angel-Lindsay-Townsend-ebook/dp/B019AT3NAA/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=mistress+angel&qid=1595144532&s=digital-text&sr=1-3">Mistress Angel</a>" is a spectacular blonde, with colouring that both attracts and also makes others eager to prey on her. I showed off her hair with a scene drawn from the historical records - in May 1357, the King of France was brought as a prisoner to London and paraded through the city in style. The goldsmiths, eager to be part of the show, positioned twelve beautiful maidens in golden cages above the street for them to toss flowers. I made my Isabella one of the maidens.<br /><br /><i><b>The gaudy troop of soldiers and knights, already shifting at a slow canter, settled into a meandering amble as the road through Cheapside broadened between the grander houses belonging to the members of the goldsmith's guild.</b></i><br /><i><b>“Ici, là!” cried Prince Edward, sweeping a bejeweled gloved arm toward the upper storeys. Beside him, on his taller horse, the French king looked up and softly applauded. Stephen scanned the ridge tiles of the freshly-painted, gilded houses and glanced where the prince was pointing.</b></i><br /><i><b>There she is. He smiled.</b></i><br /><i><b>He recognized her instantly by the proud tilt of her head, her sweetly handsome profile and those glowing eyes, more compelling even than the luxuriant gold of her hair or her sumptuous costume.</b></i><br /><i>Goldsmith’s garb and no glover’s girl for sure<b>, he thought, reining in his horse and slowing to admire her the more as she shimmered above him like the evening star. Encased in a narrow cage of gold suspended above the cobbles, he saw that she was one of twelve maidens positioned high above the street, all caged, all lovely, but his gaze returned to her alone. Already the others seemed pale shadows, water ripples, echoes. </b>But she is stunning<b>. Above the roar of blood in his ears he heard the ribald comments of Prince Edward and knew he also approved of her. </b></i><br /><i><b>By a mighty effort of will Stephen tore his attention away from this bewitching, naughty beauty and returned to scanning roofscapes. Still his eyes kept flitting back as he silently willed her to turn within her cage, to look out, to look back, to see him.</b></i><br /><i>Know me, girl. Wonder at me, as I do at you.<b> He was torn between admiration and a longing to kiss her thoroughly for her deception. </b>Kissing you will be a sweet revenge.</i><br /><i><b>She was tossing flowers, delicate metal posies of gold and silver that streaked the cobbles like flashing dewdrops or sun-flashed rain, pretty trinkets that the populace would certainly scramble for as soon as the nobles had passed. Still staring toward Westminster, although she must surely know by the mutter of the crowd that the foremost Prince of England and King of France rode right beneath her cage, she scattered another handful of golden petals, seemingly oblivious to the gasps of admiration. Silhouetted against the dark, smoke-stained jetty of the house, her slim body made a pleasing, subtle curve.</b></i><br />****<br /><div><br /></div>I kept in mind those aspects all the time I wrote of Isabella - and her hair.<br /><br />Elfrida, the witch in my "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VSHHX4N/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i7">The Snow Bride</a>" is a red-head. This shows her supernatural and inner <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>passion and fire, both of which she uses to lure a dangerous adverary closer.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdsKCWc_0g0sl84u5F4_lFZ_k68abICvRu_cKtbyFxAKJ6i4XPApuGMPg_gfYe7CV8Q7d0OKHOGiV0HxFSn5ehSpyCAVv17mZEa0TDCFfWmGKO3xs495cQSRoHsAprwPgczbCCXuM5Rw4/s1600/NEW+B+%2526+B+5.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdsKCWc_0g0sl84u5F4_lFZ_k68abICvRu_cKtbyFxAKJ6i4XPApuGMPg_gfYe7CV8Q7d0OKHOGiV0HxFSn5ehSpyCAVv17mZEa0TDCFfWmGKO3xs495cQSRoHsAprwPgczbCCXuM5Rw4/s320/NEW+B+%2526+B+5.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><b><i>She would not dwell on what could go wrong, and she fought down her night terrors over Christina, lest they become real through her thoughts. She lifted up her head and stared above the webbing of treetops to the bright stars beyond, reciting a praise chant to herself. She was a warrior of magic, ready to ensnare and defeat the beast.</i></b><br /><b><i>“I have loosened my hair as a virgin. I am dressed in a green gown, unworn before today. My shoes are made of the softest fur, my veil and sleeves are edged with gold, and my waist is belted in silver. There is mutton for my feast, and dates and ginger, wine and mead and honey. I am a willing sacrifice. I am the forest bride, waiting for my lord—” </i></b><br /><b><i>Her voice broke. Advent was meant to be a time of fasting, and she had no lord. None of the menfolk of Yarr would dare to take Elfrida the wisewoman and witch to be his wife. She knew the rumors—men always gossiped more than women—and all were depressing in their petty spitefulness. They called her a scold because she answered back.</i></b><br /><b><i>“I need no man,” she said aloud, but the hurt remained. Was she not young enough, fertile enough, pretty enough?</i></b><br /><b><i>Keep to your task, Elfrida reminded herself. You are the forest bride, a willing virgin sacrifice.</i></b><br /><b><i>She had tied herself between two tall lime trees, sometimes struggling against her loose bonds as if she could not break free. She could, of course, but any approaching monster would not know that, and she wanted to bait the creature to come close—close enough to drink her drugged flask of wine and eat her drugged “wedding” cakes. Let him come near so she could prick him with her knife and tell him, in exquisite detail, how she could bewitch him. He would fear her, oh yes, he would...</i></b><br /><b><i>She heard a blackbird caroling alarms and knew that something was coming, closing steadily, with the stealth of a hunter. She strained on her false bonds, peering into the semidarkness, aware that the fire would keep wild creatures away. Her back chilled as she sensed an approach from downwind, behind her, and as she listened to a tumble of snow from a nearby birch tree, she heard a second fall of snow from a pine closer by. Whoever, whatever, was creeping up was somehow shaking the trees, using the snowfalls as cover to disguise its own movement.</i></b><br /><b><i>A cunning brute, then, but she was bold. In one hand she clutched her small dagger, ready. In her other, she had the tiny packet of inflammables that she now hurled into the fire.</i></b><br /><b><i>“Come, husband!” she challenged, as the fire erupted into white-hot dragon tongues of leaping flame, illuminating half the clearing like a noonday sun. “Come now!” </i></b><br /><b><i>She thrust her breasts and then her hips forward, aping the actions that wives had sometimes described to her when they visited her to ask for a love philter. She shook her long, red hair and kissed the sooty, icy air. “Come to me!”</i></b><br /><b><i>She saw it at the very edge of her sight—black, huge, a shadow against the flames, off to her side, and now a real form, swooping around from the tree line to her left to face her directly. She stared across the crackling fire at the shape and bit down on the shriek rising up her throat.</i></b><br /><b><i>The beast stepped through the fire, and she saw its claw reaching for her. She heard a click, off to her right, but still kept watching the claw, even as the fire was suddenly gutted and dead, all light extinguished.</i></b><br /><b><i>Darkness, absolute and terrifying, smothered her, and she was lost.</i></b><br /><div><b><i><br /></i></b></div>Of course, the battered crusader knight Sir Magnus, hero of "The Snow Bride" is entranced by Elfrida and by her hair.<br /><br />It's a sweet vice but I have to be careful. Sometimes I have have my characters spending too much time 'fiddling' with their own or others' hair - stroking, patting, tweaking, adding flowers. My heroes are usually as hair-fixated as I am and sometimes I need to remove some of their petting.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ6KJ223eFqkXyNqB1uC1tCkpmQwrsYAtWYqI1XrAIdpQYAKPbtihHp19vBCqa8ZulbhblqVmz4vdKbeX1mGT3dCc9_gV2szKEY_I6GWGfG1980iy2cd5Wsac8gOca9uaaxrLxglW7Wzo/s1600/One+Midsummer%2527s+Knight+Front.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1067" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ6KJ223eFqkXyNqB1uC1tCkpmQwrsYAtWYqI1XrAIdpQYAKPbtihHp19vBCqa8ZulbhblqVmz4vdKbeX1mGT3dCc9_gV2szKEY_I6GWGfG1980iy2cd5Wsac8gOca9uaaxrLxglW7Wzo/s200/One+Midsummer%2527s+Knight+Front.jpg" width="133" /></a></div>Why a dark-haired hero? I've never quite understood that romance 'guide'. Randal in my story Unicorn Summer (One of the novellas in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RWZBNCY/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i5">One Midsummer Knight</a>) is blond, a sunshine lad. (Again, I use the colouring as my own reminder and key to character, both for Randal and the Unicorn who is also an important part of this story. I've written dark-haired heroes but to me it's not an essential.<br /><br /><br /><b><i>Ffion shook herself. “I care not for such trifles as looks,” she answered, in her head, “Though he is handsome.” He was sinewy and lean and his rough-cut yellow hair was as lush as summer butter, flowing over his broad shoulders as Unicorn’s mane had spilled down his flanks. Catching glimpses of a green tunic and dark leggings beneath his chain mail, she noted the good quality cloth, of older dyes, she thought, but well maintained. Overall he seemed honest and open, and he had a very shapely mouth.</i></b><br /><b><i>What do I care about his lips! He is clean-shaven, what of it? Aloud, she added, “Will you come with me, for company?”</i></b><br /><b><i>It was a grudging invitation but Sir Randal smiled and said, “We shall discover how these feathers work.” He tied his ancient helmet to his belt and offered her his arm.</i></b><br /><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj944y2OXJC7scCJCFRIIpHva_bukkV0wz3zdgpQ8s79ztieSikV1LVHiKJY_TEUr_YEPtV93sIxjJt74cdVuKZP3CqiONP41zfCs6u3HbjDQn_CZTLl_A40qI7JbjjsGE0WRadQN8_Ec8/s1600/The+Master+Cook+and+the+Maiden++LTownsend+Web.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="400" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj944y2OXJC7scCJCFRIIpHva_bukkV0wz3zdgpQ8s79ztieSikV1LVHiKJY_TEUr_YEPtV93sIxjJt74cdVuKZP3CqiONP41zfCs6u3HbjDQn_CZTLl_A40qI7JbjjsGE0WRadQN8_Ec8/s200/The+Master+Cook+and+the+Maiden++LTownsend+Web.jpg" width="133" /></a></div>In my latest novel, "<a href="https://amazon.com/dp/B088RJNYJ4/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=lindsay+The+master+cook+and+the+maiden&qid=1589871083&s=digital-text&sr=1-1%E2%80%A6">The Master Cook and the Maiden</a>" I have the hero, Swein, wearing a cap for quite a while, teasing the heroine and the reader as to what colour is hair is, a small, sweet mystery.<br /><br /><i><b>No one will bother looking for me, Alfwen almost confessed, but the night drew close and she did not want to admit she was friendless, powerless. “I can ride in your waggon?” she asked, spotting the same less than a sword’s length from her. </b>I must have been deep in shock to have missed that and a mule arriving.</i><br /><b><i>“I have some old pottage for your dog, too,” came the genial reply.</i></b><br /><b><i>He swept her onto the back of the waggon, handed her Teazel and warned, “Stay away from the firebox, or the crocks therein. I have hot food going.”</i></b><br /><b><i>“My thanks,” Alfwen whispered, praying her belly did not rumble at the thought of more dumplings. She met his bright eyes again, briefly wondering what colour his hair might be under his close-fitting cap. “Might I know your name, sir?”</i></b><br /><div><br /></div>Later, to show their developing closeness, Alfwen washes Swein's hair and she finally discovers its colour, length and texture.<br /><br />To celebrate brown hair, in "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Maiden-Lindsay-Townsend-ebook/dp/B0722TNLG5/ref=sr_1_15?dchild=1&keywords=lindsay+townsend&qid=1595148759&rs=154606011&s=digital-text&sr=1-15">Dark Maiden</a>" my female exorcist Yolande has long, brown hair:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrI2OasPmzebirrkfl9lUVq-2woSg9XUsEXxqFvklMaPpVvBNUYxbjdRQc1XMBY6DiAGuu-Q1jqjgnmZzehaH1HbnLcMv0IY1raaDMMiHtSMTGQdvrnGwW0Vyq-3jvQrMnHHpiXfY8OpA/s1600/Dark+Maiden+Cover+for+PRP.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="304" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrI2OasPmzebirrkfl9lUVq-2woSg9XUsEXxqFvklMaPpVvBNUYxbjdRQc1XMBY6DiAGuu-Q1jqjgnmZzehaH1HbnLcMv0IY1raaDMMiHtSMTGQdvrnGwW0Vyq-3jvQrMnHHpiXfY8OpA/s200/Dark+Maiden+Cover+for+PRP.jpg" width="120" /></a></div><br /><b><i>He saw her face change, becoming as still as a mask. Then she blinked. “I do understand it. My thanks to you, master Geraint. How may I aid you in return? Are you thirsty or hungry?”</i></b><br /><b><i>“Ale is always welcome,” he answered quickly, “but for now the pleasure of your company on the road will be more than payment.”</i></b><br /><b><i>She raised her pretty eyebrows at that. The rest of her was pretty too , if such a plain word could be used for such exotic looks. By “dark” he had expected black hair, which Yolande had—long, shimmering waves of the stuff, very clean but caught in a simple clasp at the back of her slender neck as if she had no time for any fuss. Her eyes were either brown or black—he could not be sure—but they were clear and steady as if she looked straight to the heart of things.</i></b><br /><i>To the heart of me, for sure.<b> Geraint liked women, loved their smell and feel and their cockeyed way of looking at the world. For all her man’s clothing, Yolande was very much a woman, and a love worthy of Solomon. Her skin was a beautiful shade of bronze, smooth as polished wood, and her eyelashes were double-lashed. She had a narrow face and elegant bones but there was a strength in her, character and soul together. He could imagine her besting devils.</b></i><br /><b><i>For the rest…the performer in him knew at once that she should be in bright colors, reds and yellows and blues, not the drab serge of a thatcher. If she was in his company for long—and he intended she would be—he would tempt her into a brighter manner of dress.</i></b><br /><i>For she has the glory of the evening in her. She wins me already and does not know it.</i><br /><b><i>“I do not chatter,” she said, unaware of his inner tumult. “I have a way to go.”</i></b><br /><b><i>Better still. He admired how she did not admit where she was headed. “For today then?” He lifted his hands, palms up. “To the nearest house of honest folk, who will let you sleep by their hearth and me in their hayloft?”</i></b><br /><b><i>“You wish to squire me to safety?”</i></b><br /><b><i>“For the pleasure of—”</i></b><br /><b><i>“For the pleasure of my company. Yes, Geraint the Welshman, you said that already.” But she was smiling as she spoke and he knew she would agree.</i></b><br /><b><i>“Shall I carry this?” He motioned to the cross. “You have your bow and bag already, and it will be no trouble.”</i></b><br /><b><i>After a moment she strode out like a youth, leaving him to catch up. Geraint admired her graceful gait and did not hurry. He wanted their day to last.</i></b><br /><i>By then I may have won another day in her company.</i><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>I like to use hair to confound stereotypes. One of my heroines, is blonde - but she would <em>never</em> have a "blonde" moment. She is a dangerous, calculating, kindly, devious.<br /><br />So I have fun with hair. I've had curly haired heroes and heroines, long haired heroes and heroines, shorn heroes. I've had heroines caught by their hair - one is trapped by her long hair while trying to escape. <br /><br />Next time (maybe) I will have to celebrate the naked scalp. That, for me, would be a challenge.<br /><br /><em>(Photograph by courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)</em><div><em><br /></em></div><div><em>Lindsay Townsend</em></div>Lindsay Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11513558547686982857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350339348313810194.post-53061370626149557482020-07-27T00:00:00.000+01:002020-07-27T00:00:02.165+01:00Skye McNeil - Doc T (Macha MC Book 1) Biker Romance <div style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;">
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safe for her to return to Ireland. What Doc T doesn't expect is to fall for the
sassy yet innocent Isadora Walsh... but he can’t have her. It’s the club’s
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never knew about her father’s role in Macha MC until it threatened her life.
Spirited away to sleepy Snowshoe, Colorado, she craves the bad boy assigned to
protect her nearly as much as she's determined to get away from club life.</span></b></div>
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Isa and Doc are thrust into a MC war that results in bullet holes and
kidnapping. Can Doc protect Isa or will the Macha princess do the saving?</span></b></div>
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Lindsay Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11513558547686982857noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350339348313810194.post-38413116522839956022020-07-23T00:00:00.000+01:002020-07-23T00:00:06.009+01:00Kristina Gallo - about my books. A Guest post from a Thriller Author<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Kristina Gallo is a Croatian multi genre author who writes contemporary thrillers.</span><br />
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<b><i>If you wish, please share your own Christmas in July romance titles in the comments, with a link</i></b>.Lindsay Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11513558547686982857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350339348313810194.post-58281798848091253292020-05-19T09:58:00.002+01:002020-05-19T10:02:03.302+01:00New! THE MASTER COOK AND THE MAIDEN. Historical Romance. Money off! Excerpts <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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flopping down on the damp grass twice before it reached her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Hey, boy,” she whispered, glad of the honest companionship even if it
was just a dog. Hearing a pitiful whine she dropped the dry crust she had been
saving for her supper in front of the shivering beast. “Go on, it is yours.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The scrap disappeared between the dog’s narrow jaws. Alfwen wiped a
hunger tear from her face, glancing about. So far, she and the little dog were
safe from discovery. This close to Terce, the other nuns and novitiates of the
convent were busy with their own assigned labours. As Alfwen had pretended she
was afraid of the river, naturally the spiteful Mother Superior had ordered the
girl to do the sisters’ laundry, an outdoor task that suited Alfwen very well,
even on this bitter afternoon in early spring. Tempers sharpened during Lent,
when all were famished, and to be in the fresh, chill air was better than being
mewed up in the sooty church or cramped, icy scriptorium.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Kneeling on the riverbank, Alfwen wrung out another section of bedsheet
and dunked the next, flinching at the freezing water flowing over her reddened
fingers and pale skinny arms. No possible spy was with her, no religious or lay
brother or sister, and she could relax a moment. She unwound from her knees and
sat on the grass, trying to ignore the burning prickling in her legs. When no
shout or complaint issued from the convent she stroked the dog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">With a soft whine the beast crawled closer. So small and trembling, she
thought, and she could count its ribs through that rough brown coat and the raw
patches along one flank where the fur had shed. Recalling a lively, bouncing
pup from long ago, she whispered, “Teazel?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The dog weakly wagged a balding tail. As it raised its head, Alfwen
spotted a filthy cloth collar, half-hidden by dirt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I gave you to Walter with a leather collar,” she murmured, surprised
she remembered that detail. Teazel snuffled and edged even nearer, so she could
see the grey in his muzzle. She wrapped the dog in the rest of the dry sheet
she had yet to scrub and fought down a wave of horror.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Walter must be dead. Teazel would never have left him.
<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">She tried to pray for her brother. Failing that, she tried to remember
him. It had been seven, no eight years since Walter and his new wife had
abandoned her in the convent, though Alfwen knew she had no vocation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">I was ten years old and my parents had just died.
Walter was in the first flush of marriage and lordship and his wife</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">—Alfwen shuddered, checked again for spies and
admitted the truth. <i>Enid hated me</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">A growl came from the tangled sheet as if Teazel agreed with her. A
quivering, questing muzzle emerged from the heavy linen and Alfwen was struck
by a memory of Walter. Her older brother, whirling about the tilting yard with
his new puppy in his arms, laughing as the little dog yapped and squirmed and
nuzzled closer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“He likes me!” Walter cried, pressing a sloppy kiss on the pup’s back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“He is yours,” Alfwen agreed, and Walter had grinned at her, his hazel
eyes bright with joy, the sunlight picking out the red glints in his brown
curls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Enid had soon shorn off his hair, claiming it unseemly for a young lord.
Alfwen had scowled and Walter had scolded her for protesting against his wife,
although she had said nothing. Two days later she was delivered to the convent,
a poor, mean place. <i>My limbo, with an
entrance to hell, and my brother did not care, did not question. </i>Eight
years she had been here as a novitiate, neither lay nor nun. Postulants to a
religious life were supposed to serve only a year as a novice but as a sister
Alfwen would have status and Enid and the Mother Superior between them did not
want that. <i>Instead I am trapped and my
close family have forgotten or dismissed me</i>. <i>Would I be as stupid and selfish in wedlock as Walter?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Alfwen shook her head and tried a second time to pray for her brother’s
soul.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">He is gone forever and I cannot even cry.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">She tried to think of him, remember him, kindly memories. Save for when
she had given him Teazel, and he had taught her to write her name, she drew a
blank on any more joyful times. <i>Have I
forgotten or was Walter really so morose and carping? Am I unjust in how I
consider him now?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">In the dank grey light of early spring, the bell for Terce rang through
her like a blow. Numb, Alfwen rose, ready to gather her work and stumble into
the nunnery’s huddled church set close to an expanse of marsh but out of reach
of the river. She reached for the part-washed, part-dry sheet and Teazel burst
from its coils. Again she noted his thinness, the scrap of cloth collar. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The collar was once part of a favourite gown of mine,
a yellow dress my mother made me.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The bell for Terce continued to toll and Alfwen detested its sweet
intrusion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Anger sharpened her, tempered her dull acceptance of convent life into
more than resentment. In a blast of sudden added colour she saw the white and
pink daisies by her feet, the blue glow of a kingfisher farther down the
riverbank, the glint of gold amidst the dirty yellow of Teazel’s collar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">He has something pinned to his collar</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">A shadow fell across Alfwen before she could unpin the tiny roll of
parchment, but thankfully it was merely a cloud, not a nun coming to drag her
to service.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">No, the good sisters of Saint Hilda’s will be
hastening to church. I will not be missed until after the latest holy office.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Alfwen flinched as the gold brooch scratched her fingers and then the
thing was undone. Heart hammering, she smoothed out the parchment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Two words only in her brother’s hand, but a message to her, all the
same.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Chapter 2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Swein saw the girl drop into the water from the riverbank and leapt from
his waggon, sprinting to reach her before she drowned. Hearing no splash or
screams he dared to hope and ran faster, forcing air into his searing lungs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Pounding along the track and over the water-meadow he vaulted the mud
brick wall of the convent. He landed clumsily but kept going, determined to
save her. <i>Never a fatal accident in my
kitchen and I’ll not gave one here, either.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Scrambling to the edge of the bank he stared downstream, seeing nothing
but a young trout, swung round to scour upstream—and choked on his breath.
Tripping daintily over the river pebbles at the stream’s edge the girl walked
steadily away from her pile of laundry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Swein flattened himself to the grass and watched the small, skinny
wench. Her skirts were sodden to the backs of her knees, he reckoned, but she
moved smoothly, never looking back. Across her retreating shoulders she carried
a sling, made from part of a sheet. A little old dog poked its muzzle from the
bundle and seemed content with the ride.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">A runaway from Saint Hilda’s</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">. “No business of mine,” Swein muttered, but his ankle
ached so he lay still and stared. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The girl disappeared round the bend in the beck—stream, Swein mentally
corrected, since this was in the south, not north—her presence winking out like
a small star.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">She will walk to the ford and take the Roman road
hence. I could drive my waggon there and wait for her.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Why not?” Swein said aloud, flexing his toes in his boots. “I have no
business with Saint Hilda’s.” The head nun in the place did not like men and
detested cooks so he had never had cause to visit in his travels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">‘Tis Lent and I go home for Lent. Cooking food for
fasting times does not stir me and my folk are waiting. </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">He had the early gifts ready for them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Still he would catch Nutmeg, his mule, and his waggon and drive to the ford.
<i>That girl needs fattening up, I reckon,
fleeing from Saint Hilda’s. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
nobles I cook for do not like me curious but I am my own master and this Lent
time is my holiday</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">.
He could do largely as he pleased and he wanted to see the lass’s face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Swein rolled to his feet and set off back for the
track, whistling a merry tune.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">****<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Alfwen glanced at the sinking sun and the crossroads
with dismantled archery butts stacked against the oak tree. She had hoped for a
hiring gather and had her story ready<i>. I
am a laundress seeking honest work.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">She wanted to steal a nag and ride to her family’s
seat at Ormsfeld, but she brutally dismissed the desire. She needed to know how
Walter had died and who were his enemies. <i>Teazel
would never have left if Walter lived still. </i>Yet no one had come to the
convent to tell her that her brother had died. <i>Although I am a de Harne</i> <i>I
have been buried at Saint Hilda’s for eight years and no doubt forgotten.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Avenge me,” Walter growled in her head, in a voice
she was not sure was his, or what she remembered of him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Again she was relieved she had not taken final vows.
Nuns were not supposed to plot vengeance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Why
should I? When did Walter care for me? <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Alfwen squashed such thoughts, stamping her feet in a futile
bid to keep warm. Her skirts and sandals were still wet from the river and she
knew she would look strange, a lone woman with no protectors. <i>I dare not linger here past twilight. I have
to find shelter, food for Teazel.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The dog slept on the damp ground in her rough bundle,
weary with hunger. <i>Enid starved him. Did
she do the same cruel thing with Walter?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Are you seeking work?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Startled, Alfwen turned, stumbling as she took a rapid
backwards step. The man looming over her was so big—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Strong arms caught her, brought her safe against a
broad chest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“Here,” said the stranger as she gulped in breath to
fight, “Before you hunger faint.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">A large calloused hand pressed a warm round dumpling
into her palm, a white plump dumpling straight from a pottage pot, but not so
hot as to burn. The comforting heat and yeasty scent took her straight back to
childhood, pottering after Simon, the old cook, who would often take her with
him into the kitchen garden and let her eat fresh bread from his ovens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Avenge
me,</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Walter scolded,
while she chewed and swallowed the dumpling treat, licking her fingers after.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">“I need a washer lass,” the stranger went on, dropping
a morsel of something on the earth for Teazel. “I feed my folk well. You come?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">He almost had her at feed well, but Alfwen had not
sprung the trap of the convent to fall into another. She shook her head. “I
cannot stay, sir.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Now she spoke, Alfwen felt the light-headedness of
hunger boil into the seethe of panic. <i>What
might this big brute make me do for his food?<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc440281718"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: small;">There has always been a mystery in Julia Rochfort's family. Who killed her grandfather Guy, a member of the Italian resistance movement in World War Two? When Julia travels to Florence to compete in a singing competition, she meets Roberto Padovano, already an established opera star, and they discover that they have a lot more in common than simple attraction.</span></span></a></h1>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc440281718"><span lang="EN-GB">PROLOG</span></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc440281718"><span lang="EN-GB">UE</span></a></span></h1>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">26th November, London, 1993.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">She had foreseen his
revenge, but the attack when it came was brutal. Impossible to avoid, she
watched the knife slicing towards her heart, her features betraying a mixture
of anger and agonised suspense. Too late - she would never know love now, only
obsession.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">He struck, and a dull
throbbing bloomed in her chest. The blow smashed her to her knees and the
wooden floor seemed to jackknife upwards, sucking her into a cool embrace. She
lay still, horror and fear fading as a warm languor swept through her body.
Dying was easy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Dimly, she heard the
man standing over her chant something; a lament, a name, then he too was
silent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The main lights
snapped on and she coughed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">'Sorry, it's the
dust,' Julia murmured, coming out of the role and her character, rising to her
feet. The Maestro seized her hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">'Marvellous,' he was
saying over the applause. 'Bravo!'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The masterclass for
Carmen was over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The Maestro caught up
with her as she was hurrying from the hall. 'Is it tomorrow you're going?'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Julia nodded, pushing
Carmen's veil down in her bag.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">'Good luck - take
care.'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Julia smiled, thinking
of another promise. 'I will,' she said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Summer 1944, Italy.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">The terror began with
the music. As they wound up the gramophone, the youth moaned and thrashed,
trying hopelessly to break free. He lay in chains, a blindfold cutting into his
eyes. The walls of the underground chamber were wet: blood or water he did not
know. Sometimes he touched the stones with his broken fingers, desperate to invoke
their silence in himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">This time would he
break? The record needle dropped onto the seventy-eight, the chamber rang. A
finger glided down the boy's calf - he tensed, but the pain did not come at the
music's climax. A lighted cigarette was thrust against his right foot and
allowed to burn, spitting in the open wounds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">‘Tell me!' The whisper
carried over the chords, over his scream, piercing the moment when he felt he
could bear no more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">'Know nothing.. .' He
shuddered. 'Don't.' He lifted his head, pleading with the Whisperer, the voice
he most feared.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">There was a moment's
silence. And then a man, another captive, suddenly began shouting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">'I'll have you! Not
one of your family will be safe! I'll have your wives, your children - their
children . . . I promise you - you'll see . . .' <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc440281719"><span lang="EN-GB">CHAPTER 1</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">28th November, 1993, Florence, Italy.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Her search would begin tomorrow - tonight
she could keep for herself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The wind, sweeping through the funnel of
jewellers' shops, thrust Julia along the Ponte Vecchio. She sped across
Florence's oldest bridge, watching the faces of the local people, fascinated by
their every nuance of expression, at once familiar and exotic. Winter sunlight
flashed on her earrings as she turned her head. determined to miss nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Polished windows tossed back reflections of
a young woman in jeans, trainers and duffel coat. With glowing skin, bright,
grey eyes, animated features and a heedful of black curls, she attracted
attention even in the bustle of the pre-festive rush. She could be taken for a
teenage daughter of the Italian matrons cutting over the bridge with their bags
of vegetables, yet she had the surface confidence of someone older, unafraid to
show feeling in an age of fashionable cynicism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">That same commitment marked Julia Rochfort
as a rising force in British opera. She was twenty-six, and this was her first
time in Italy since childhood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">English, English-speaking, yet also fluent
in Italian, Julia had always intended to return to the country where she had
been born. She found herself at ease within the swarms of dark-haired Christmas
shoppers and black street traders hawking bangles and carpets. Out of the crush
a jeweller sat relaxing beside his window, drinking from a china saucer. Julia
smiled at him as she passed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The wind swept on, grit-blasting the
eastern edge of the City of Flowers, cleaning and brightening its face. The
golden orb at the top of the dome of the cathedral gleamed, like a star
pointing the way she should go.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julia knew where she was going. She was
taking part in a singing competition, the springboard, she hoped, to an
international career. In four days she would be performing to her first Italian
audience. She was apprehensive yet exhilarated, opened-out by the challenge. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She was in Florence, amongst people who
spoke the same language as herself, who were dark as she was; people with whom
she felt she belonged.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The sharp tang of the river drew her to the
loggia set in the middle of the medieval bridge. Wind flicking her face, she
passed a gaggle of school children, arguing - with the same extravagant
face-pulling she had made herself as a child - over whose turn it was on a
pocket-sized games machine, and leaned out over the Arno. The tip of her tongue
played between her teeth, as always when she was concentrating.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Looking across the muddy waters to the
biscuit-coloured apartments opposite put Julia in mind of her own family.
Enrico and her mother Angelica would be boarding their plane now, to spend
Christmas in Tenerife.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The holiday was her gift. In October, her
mother went into hospital for an operation - not serious, but Julia was on tour
and unable to visit. Now, with Angelica fully recovered, a long stay on a warm
island would set her parents up for the new year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It had made a hole in her savings, but she had
been glad to spend it. She just wished she and her mother—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julia laughed at herself and shook her
head, cutting off the thought. She watched two youths bump over the stone sets
on a scooter, black slicked hair gleaming more than their leathers. Across the
river, above the snarl of rush-hour cars came the sudden ringing of bells, a
clock striking the hour: it would soon be evening. In the meantime she would
enjoy this mirage-like dusk of fading sun and coloured lights, the music of
people's voices, the throaty chatter of roosting pigeons.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julia smiled, absented-mindedly winding a
curl of hair round her thumb. It was ironic that she, so much a creature of
light, should spend most of her life working at night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Enough, she thought, stifling old fears
with a twist of her hand. Tomorrow she was going to Bologna, to see where
Enrico had lived. Her stepfather had always talked about his life in Bologna,
but was afraid to go back in case he or the city had changed. His widowed
mother and sister had been killed during the Allies' bombardment: Enrico, then
a prisoner of war, had seen no reason to return. He had stayed in England,
eventually marrying a woman fifteen years younger than himself and with a small
child - Julia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Tomorrow she was going to Bologna to trace
her mother's surviving Italian family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">This search was as important to her as the
competition. Whatever happened, Julia had decided to spend three weeks in
Italy. Surely in that time she would find something.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She pushed away from the chill parapet.
Seeing a beggar crouching under the third arch of the loggia, Julia crossed
over to give him money, then hurried on. Enrico knew virtually nothing about
his wife's past: she had promised her stepfather she would find out something.
The journey to Bologna was partly for his sake, an attempt to discover who
Angelica's family were, but mostly, Julia had to admit, the trip was for
herself, filling a gap in her life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">‘You think Rochfort is Italian?' her mother
would say whenever Julia attempted to question Angelica about where they had
both come from, 'I'm English. You're English. Forget Italy.'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julia could not forget. Perhaps if her
beautiful, auburn-haired, English-rose complexioned mother had told her of the
Rochforts, of her real father, Julia might have been able to dismiss Italy, yet
Angelica had remained stubbornly silent on these too. Throughout her childhood,
Julia felt she belonged nowhere: she had often wished she looked as English as
her mother, yet she did not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Now, as an adult, Julia recognised that
whatever her mother's claims, Angelica was also Italian. She had married
Enrico, given up 'Rochfort' and taken his name. She was Angelica Varisi; she
was linked to someone with a past. Enrico had snapshots of his family, Julia
had none of the Rochforts. Or of the others, the mysterious Italian side that
her mother always denied. It was not enough to have a name and nothing more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She had been born in Emilia Romagna -
Angelica had told her that much. Bologna was the capital of the region.
Somewhere in that city there would be her birth records, people she could talk
to, a family to discover.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julia wished the days were longer, so that
she could start at once.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Glancing back, she noticed a man in a grey
woollen coat and scarlet scarf approaching. He was eating almond macaroons from
a paper bag. A few crumbs showed pale against his lapels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julia swung round into the wind, pausing to
fiddle with the loose bracelet of her watch. The man was speaking to the
beggar, who gestured in her direction. She recalled seeing him earlier, hearing
snatches of that staccato tread as she crossed the flags of the Straw Market
and later along the stone corridor linking the Uffizi gallery to the Ponte
Vecchio. Her musician's training gave her a good ear, a good memory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Licking her lips, Julia decided to return
to the jeweller's to have her watch repaired. It was something she should have
had done weeks ago, except she had never had time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Fifteen minutes later, the bracelet of her
watch tightened and snug against her wrist - 'No charge,' the jeweller told
her, with a smile she emerged back onto the street.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The man in the grey coat was still there,
scowling at the prices in the window across from her. Tossing a crumpled paper
bag into the gutter, where the breeze spun it along, he moved when she did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Another tourist, taking in the same sights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julia stiffened, irritated at herself. This
was already her country. She strode over the last cobbles off the Ponte Vecchio
without looking back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He was lurking when she bought throat
pastilles at the pharmacist, prowling at another card carousel as she chose her
postcards. He was nearby as she took note of a dry-cleaner's address.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">His persistence deserved a medal, thought
Julia wryly, but not from her. She decided she would leave finding a
launderette for another time. Her thumb wound in her hair as she walked on. Now
that she thought about it, this fellow was interested in linen, too. Why else
had he been lingering near the market stall where she had bought her sewing
silk?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">'Come on then, pinch me,' she muttered,
humour and irritation blending. She wondered if she were being unfair. Had she
perhaps smiled at the man in one of their coincidental meetings, sent the wrong
signal? She wished he would make his move. 'Let's get it over with.' Checking
her step, she turned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Twenty paces back on the pavement, the man
had stopped. Ignoring frowns and gestures from people who shoved past, he was
cleaning under his fingernails with a knife - not a penknife: Julia knew that
at once. This was something heavier, surely much larger than any normal person
would wish to carry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Telling herself that she was over-reacting,
Julia lengthened her stride. Suddenly she felt very alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Behind her the beat of footsteps increased.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">A few moments later, whipping down
twisting, car-echoing side streets back to the river, she was convinced she had
lost him. Humming a competition piece, Julia crossed a road lined with Vespas
and turned down another alley, hoping to find a short cut to the rank of bus
stops outside Florence station. Her hotel was in the suburbs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He was waiting up ahead in the piazza, one
of several men leaning against a column. She saw him detach from the group: the
blood-red scarf separating him from a hundred other strollers. He wasn't a
tourist. He knew the city better than she. Her knowledge came from maps; his
from experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The red scarf bothered her more than the
knife. It suggested impulse, a man who had spotted her in the street and was
wondering whether to try an approach to ask her out. Yet the stranger was
stalking her with a determination which seemed out of all proportion to such a
casual interest. But if he were trailing her - as he obviously was - then why
would he wish to draw attention to his pursuit? Was the scarf a signal to
others?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Even compared with opera plots the idea was
bizarre, but then this was Italy, home of the kidnapper. Only last month a
certain soprano - famous but hardly a great star - had been snatched from her
hotel in Padova and held for ransom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Dammit, thought Julia, yanking her hood
over her head then immediately tugging it back, she wasn't going to allow this
man to worry her. Nor under any circumstances would she lead him to her hotel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Cutting through office cleaners streaming
from a bank at the corner of another small, bustling square, Julia stepped
briskly along the Via de' Tornabuoni. Florence's smartest street thronged with
fashionable locals - easy to distinguish from visitors by their designer
sunglasses worn even in winter, and those loose, taupe-coloured suits. Choosing
the brighter, wind-blown half, she made great play of studying the ultramodern
clothes displayed in the new Galatea salon. The mirrors gave her a chance to
observe more closely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">There he was, walking straight past,
scowling at the strobe light. Small and slight, with a jerky gait. Definitely
not what she thought of as a mugger or the kind of prowler who preyed on lone
women. He was older than his close-cropped brown hair and animated walk
suggested - fifty at least. Expensive grey suit, close-fitting coat, conservative
tie - clothes which should have given him presence. The red scarf was
incongruous with such an outfit, yet somehow fitted the man.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">No, he was nothing more sinister than a
pest, Julia decided. The knife was probably bravado. There was no need for her
to search for a police station, nor disturb the two carabinieri striking a
movie-star pose on the street corner. Their guns made her nervous of
approaching them, especially in so trivial a matter. She did not want to be
mocked or pitied by those tough young men because of one ageing Romeo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julia stuck to that conclusion even in her
more paranoid moments, when, between gusts of swirling air, she imagined she
could hear that busy tread both behind and coming towards her. She hurried
along, planning what she would do, counting her steps under her breath to keep
wilder fancies in check. No one could possibly be interested in her. She had
two assets, a strong voice and stamina, neither of which could be sold - not
yet, anyway, not as a performer unknown outside England and without a recording
contract. So who would pay for her release?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She dismissed the idea, letting out a sigh
as she passed the obelisk outside the black and white patterned front of Santa
Maria Novella. Cutting through a bumper to bumper line of traffic, she entered
the building, forgetting to cover her head. She had remembered that this church
backed onto the road opposite to the Station. Soon there would be a bus leaving
for the outskirts. She would wait inside, then make a run. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The man would not accost her here: even
Cosa Nostra drew a line at attacking people in the sanctuary of church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julia's prayers were swift. She checked her
watch by the candle light: twenty minutes left.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">At the end of the time she burst out of the
great church, darting round two sides of the long building before her eyes had
fully adjusted to the twilight. Her bus was waiting along the Piazza delta
Stazione, revving its engine. Julia pitched into the melee - Italians never
queue when they can shove - and was fighting for a place when a prickling
between her shoulders made her swing about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The man had joined the crowd and was
elbowing closer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Julia felt a blaze of anger - she did not
want this creep trailing her all the way to Bologna. She had been wrong to be
discreet: the best way to deal with a threat was to confront it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">She stopped dead in the heaving mass,
letting people flow past, and pitched her voice so everyone could hear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">'I really think this has gone far enough,'
she said coolly, her narrow hand pointing unerringly to its target. 'I'm
talking to the gentleman with the red scarf. If you don't stop following me,
I'm calling the police.'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The smallest of gaps opened for an instant
around the man in the red scarf and several more innocent businessmen, their
expressions such that Julia was almost sorry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Seizing the moment before the press closed
up again, she leapt onto the bus as its doors were closing. The driver roared
off as she squeezed past other standing passengers to punch her ticket, her
hands not quite co-ordinated as she glimpsed the man staring after her from the
pavement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The man's name was Tommaso and he answered
to it, although in his own mind he was Tom. Now he was angry at himself for
giving way to impulse. Seeing the girl by chance in the street, he had lost his
head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">And how, Tom thought, scowling into his
unsugared brandy coffee. His left hand was aching: he'd had to dig out a
splinter from under the nail - he got a lot of splinters in his line of work
and nearly always missed a couple until they were really hurting. He hadn't
considered what the girl might think, catching him using a knife in the street.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Shaking his head, Tom took a sip of coffee,
savouring the bitter drink whilst he stared out at the emptying square from his
bar stool. In the tobacco stand opposite, a crumpled stack of papers flapped
the day's stale news: another collaborator exposed and brought to trial. With
the World War Two fiftieth anniversary commemoration due in the new year,
prosecuting magistrates had switched their attentions away from the Mafia.
These days anyone who wanted to get on in the judiciary was rooting out war
criminals: it was seen as part of the new democracy, a clearing of the decks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Tom snorted, signalling to the barman. Only
Italians could get excited about ancient witch hunts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The bearded barman brought him another
coffee, poured in brandy without asking. Tom always drank brandy coffee at this
bar: the place and indeed the city had many special memories for him. Of course
had it not been for the business he would not have moved here two years ago
after his wife's death. He wasn't sentimental, although he had his weaknesses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He had kept his promise to his wife over
the years, but that hadn't stopped him from being curious. When he had read the
article in Oggi and learned that the girl was coming to Italy, Tom had seen it
as fate. He was a believer in fate.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Tom lifted his grey coat from the next
stool, leaving a few coins on the bar. He'd been undecided about Julia. Maybe
if she hadn't confronted him he might not have bothered, let the whole thing
slide. As it was, he had been offered a challenge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Planning their next encounter, he stepped
into the dark street, tucking the scarf round his throat to keep out the wind. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<h1>
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc440281720"><span lang="EN-GB">CHAPTER 2</span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Sherry eyes fixed on his fellow-singer, Roberto
pursued Isabel Alvarez across the stage through rows of peasant dancers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He was a tall, vigorous figure. The sword
at his belt seemed freshly forged for him. the long athletic lines of the
eighteenth-century costume breeches suited him. A thin white shirt defined
every muscle of his torso as he sang.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">His face, that square forehead and chin and
hawkish nose, was as telling as a Roman portrait bust, but his dark brown hair
was a war zone of untamed spiky curls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Isabel, the Spanish-American soprano singing
Zerlina in Mozart's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Don Giovanni</i> was
as beguiled as the audience of the San Francisco opera house. Roberto Padovano
could have any woman he wanted, Isabel thought, and I wish it were me. She
wished she and Padovano were more intimate than just colleagues. The Italian
bass was just so convincing as the Don.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">But the conductor was glaring at her from
the orchestra pit: she was losing concentration. Isabel began and finished a
heated duet with another singer and tried to conceal her impatience as the
stage emptied. In a few moments, she would be in Padovano's arms as much as Don
Giovanni's.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Now they were alone. If only this was more
than acting, she thought, her voice almost stopping as he approached.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He caught her at the edge of the stage. His
actor's kisses covered her eyes and cheeks and lips. He played at untying the
strings on the bodice of her costume. He wrapped his arms tenderly around her
middle - singing all the while, it seemed, only to her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">It was better than sex - almost. No man
could sing like this one: the love song poured from him, a living caress in
sound. Closing her eyes, Isabel leaned against him, breathing in music,
answering not because she remembered the words but because she wanted them to
become real.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Their duet drawing to a close, Roberto
whirled her off her feet. carrying her towards the back of the stage as they
sang. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Isabel shivered. A warm hand stroked along
her flank, the touch light yet firm.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">‘You're doing fine.' His low speaking voice
steadied her. Roberto smiled, absently wiping a trickle of moisture from the
side of his nose, brown hair spiralling across his forehead.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">As he set her down on her feet, Isabel let
out a shriek.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Roberto glanced up. A light fitting
directly above them tilted wildly, then snapped with a loud crack. The heavy
mass plummeted downwards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">With one hand, Roberto thrust Isabel
Alvarez out of harm's way. His own momentum had them both on the floor, where
they skidded violently into a laden props table. Disregarding a sudden fire in
his left foot, Roberto gathered Isabel Alvarez gently into his arms, cradling
her as the curtain finally swung down over the wreck of the light.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The doctor at the state hospital glanced
from the X-ray to the tall impassive man seated in his consulting room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">‘You finished the performance with this?'
the doctor asked, tapping the X-ray sheet with his finger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">'After a break to restore a little calm.'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 10.0pt; text-indent: 36.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">'Just as well it was the last night. Must
have hurt like hell.'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Roberto smiled, thinking already of his
flat in Milan, of local bars familiar evening strolls and the fountains in the
park across the road. 'Not as much as it could have. Accidents happen.'
Glancing at his watch, he knew he would still make it to the airport for his
flight home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cared and had urged him most ardently to stay with her and Peter, but pride had
made him refuse them both with a smile. He did not begrudge the handsome couple
their joy, not after their many trials. But the dark of winter and Christmas
especially brought his own desolation home to him most keenly, sharper than an
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His voice rang out, startling a lone magpie into taking
flight from a solitary elm in a blur of wings, but the drab and well-worn saint
gave no sign of hearing. Peering into the calm, carved face, Magnus wondered if
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to the left for luck. With his knees creaking, he staggered to his feet and
remounted his eager horse. When he passed this way again he would leave gold,
he vowed, but for now he wished only to slink away. He needed to find the
village before nightfall and speak to the council of old men—it was always old
men—who had sent word to his manor of Norton Mayfield, begging for help, any help,
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Lindsay TownsendLindsay Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11513558547686982857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350339348313810194.post-25752768356905260712020-03-29T10:16:00.000+01:002020-03-29T10:16:24.074+01:00Saving Suki - paranormal romance by Sierra Brave. One of the Horse Mountain Shifters Series <a href="http://sierrabrave.rocks/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Destiny-Brought-Them-Together.-His-Father-Made-Them-Rivals.-But-No-One-Can-Fight-Fate.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1794" height="512" src="https://sierrabrave.rocks/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Destiny-Brought-Them-Together.-His-Father-Made-Them-Rivals.-But-No-One-Can-Fight-Fate.jpg" width="1024" /></a>
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Title: <em><strong>Saving Suki</strong></em></div>
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Series: <em><strong>Horse Mountain Shifters</strong></em></div>
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Release Date: April 1, 2020</div>
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Genre: Paranormal Romance; Romantic Suspense; Contemporary Western;</div>
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Book Tagline: Pain Drove Him Away. Her Heart Couldn’t Forget. Tragedy Brought Him Back. Will Fate Bind Them Together?</div>
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Series Tagline: Even Alpha Males Can’t Fight Fate</div>
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An abusive childhood and an accident in his teens left stallion-shifter, Malcolm Patterson, with a distrust for his father and a lot of holes in his memory. When his dad passes away, Malcolm returns to Horse Mountain to fulfill his obligation to settle his old man’s affairs but finds the shifter community’s near hero-worship of the late doctor disquieting. He’s further shaken to meet a curvy beauty at the funeral who makes his heart gallop and his primal instincts take over.
Suki Marks has been in love with handsome and noble Malcolm Patterson ever since he saved her from bullies who called her an abomination when she was ten. He was the first person to be straight with her about the reasons some people shunned her family and he was quick to debunk those prejudices as the ignorant folktales and stupid superstitions they were. Even after Malcolm graduated high school and left town, she couldn’t forget him, but becoming Doctor Patterson’s live-in nurse in his last year of life was a coincidence. She never expected to be named in the wealthy physician’s will.
Malcolm assumed he’d be disinherited, but even from the after-life, his father continues to turn the knife, using his will to set up an elaborate scheme to taint Malcolm's feelings for the woman who might be his fated mate. To make matters worse, a dangerous shifter-purist movement is brewing among a small segment of the Horse Mountain Clan, and they’re determined to prevent Suki from passing on her genes to a new generation. Will Malcolm be able to work through his past in time to secure his and Suki’s future?
Warning: Saving Suki is a smoking hot romance with graphic, put-you-in-the-moment love scenes. If you're offended by sexual language, you might want to consider another book. The book can stand alone without reading the others in the series, but reading Horse Mountain Shifters 1-3, will add to the enjoyment of the experience.
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Malcolm looked through the glass of the refrigerated pie case at the old McGillacutty Dinner as he perused the offerings. He wasn’t about to show up to Mama Carol’s completely empty-handed. A bright yellow flyer attached to the outside of the dessert case with scotch tape caught his eye. He studied the image of the missing girl printed above the lettering spelling out her name, age, and where she’d last been seen along with a phone number and offer of a reward. She was nineteen, blond and had a nice smile, but since he didn’t recognize her and couldn’t be of help, he turned his attention back toward the pies.
After deciding on the chocolate chess, he paid and headed out. He held the box with his desert under his left arm as he wrapped the fingers of his free hand around the glass door’s handle. As soon as he pulled back enough to let in the slightest breeze, the sweet all-consuming aroma from earlier hit him like a ton of bricks. Almost immediately, his heart thumped so hard his chest ached. His mind blanked, his cock twitched and his senses nosedived down into some dark, primal place he hadn’t realized existed. He might have involuntarily shifted right then and there if he hadn’t nearly knocked right into the curvy, brunette beauty who’d spoken with him at the funeral.
Her dark eyes widened and her eyebrows lifted as she gasped and reached out, saving his dessert by a narrow margin. Her hand briefly brushed against his fingers as she steadied the box. Perspiration misted his forehead and the back of his neck as he regained control of his mental faculties.
“Sorry. Are you okay?” He managed to force the words up from his suddenly dry throat.
Shakily, she looked up at him through long, dark eyelashes and nodded. “Uh-huh.”
For what seemed like an eternity, the two of them stood staring at one another until an old lady with a tight, gray perm came up behind Malcolm and demanded, “Move it, sonny.”
He stepped out of the way, holding the door for the elder woman as she shuffled out holding hands with a short, old guy wearing a flapjack hat. Malcolm couldn’t help but smile. He’d always imagined there were couples who’d found each other and stayed in love for all their lives even though none of his relationships seemed to last longer than a month or two. In the last few years, he’d only dated humans which didn’t allow for complete openness or a deeper intimacy.
Malcolm watched as the man walked his lady over to a white Toyota Avalon and opened the passenger side door for her. As he glanced at the brunette, she tore her gaze away from the same couple and his line of vision synced with hers. For some reason, as if they’d somehow understood they’d been sharing the same thought, a warm blush covered her cheeks. Malcolm looked away as his face burned.
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<strong>Other Books in the <em>Horse Mountain Shifters</em> Series:</strong></div>
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<em>Horse Mountain Heat</em></div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XJC88ZJ">US</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XJC88ZJ">UK</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B06XJC88ZJ">CA</a> <a href="https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B06XJC88ZJ">AU</a></div>
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<em>Real Cowboys Love Cats</em></div>
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<em>Bridling Lucy</em></div>
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<strong>About Sierra</strong></div>
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Sierra Brave is a multi-published author of smoking hot romance. Her love of erotic fiction started in her last year of high school when she read the sensual classic, <em>Fanny Hill. </em>She felt so naughty yet liberated with her copy tucked away in her book bag and hopes her work will have the same delicious effect on her readers.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">Elfrida, spirited, caring and beautiful, is also alone. She is the witch of the woods and no man dares to ask for her hand in marriage until a beast comes stalking brides and steals away her sister. Desperate, the lovely Elfrida offers herself as a sacrifice, as bridal bait, and she is seized by a man with fearful scars. Is he the beast?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">In the depths of a frozen midwinter, in the heart of the woodland, Sir Magnus, battle-hardened knight of the Crusades, searches ceaselessly for three missing brides, pitting his wits and weapons against a nameless stalker of the snowy forest. Disfigured and hideously scarred, Magnus has finished with love, he thinks, until he rescues a fourth 'bride', the beautiful, red-haired Elfrida, whose innocent touch ignites in him a fierce passion that satisfies his deepest yearnings and darkest desires.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">The Snow Bride delivers a thrilling tale of magic, adventure, and love.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">I adored Magnus!! I loved how he was not the flashy knight-in-shining-armor, but instead was battle-scarred and weary, was someone who's proved himself and could be counted on to keep fighting through any and every battle. He desperately sought after a seemingly unattainable dream and watching him realize Elfrida was his dream come to life - what he wished for and then more - melted my heart. The gentleness he showed Elfrida balanced wonderfully with his protectiveness that flared around her. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">Elfrida had a heart that overflowed with devotion and compassion, even as much as she struggled to truly find her place. She had a special kind of wisdom and a stubborn tenacity that saw her through her journey, and afforded her the opportunity to learn that she wasn't on her own fighting battles anymore.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.85px;">I enjoyed watching the two of them learn to compromise and trust each other - which was very much a challenge with their temperaments and instincts. Their ability to communicate and make reparations quickly also showed strength and confidence. Their strengths played well off the other, even if sometimes you were wanting to join the other in shaking someone... haha.</span><br />
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kidnapped maidens? Sir Magnus and Elfrida strive to find the girls, but at what
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When a shadowy piper kidnaps seven beautiful girls, can a wounded knight and his witch-wife save them? Will Sir Magnus and Elfrida find them in time—and at what cost?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Magnus, the fearless, battered crusader knight, and his fey wife, Elfrida, are happily married, but each of them carries a secret. Elfrida believes that being peasant-born will one day undermine her husband’s love for her. Wounded and scarred, Magnus fears nothing—except, perhaps, that he will not be able to give Elfrida her greatest wish—children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Before Magnus could move away from the shadows, Elfrida seized his arm. “I must come with you, sir. You and I alone, I think, until we are sure we have found Silvester’s lair.”</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> “Indeed?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> She did not quail under his frown though it was a near thing. “Please,” she almost said, but she was done with begging.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> “I have a plan,” she began as he shifted. When he strode into the sunlight, the rest of her words withered inside her mouth.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> He hooked his hand into his belt. “I will not have you as bait.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> He understood part of her idea, then.<i> This would be only gossip-bait</i>, she wanted to say, but Magnus’s growl stopped her.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> “So small you are,” he said. “So slender, still. If I were only more a man, this caper of yours would be impossible<i>.</i>” His fingers whitened on his belt and he fell silent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> “What?”<i> </i>Magnus’s frustration raked through Elfrida’s mind like claws. As she stared at him, horrified, he jerked his head aside, checking no one was close. Her own feelings now raging, and even with all her magic she could not sense the rest of his thought. That was always the difficulty with magic and thought sensing. She needed a cool, calm head to do such things and at present her thoughts and feelings were in tumult, with fear uppermost.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> “My lord?” <i>What does he mean?</i> “Please, Magnus.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> They marched across the yard in the same arrow-straight diagonal that Tancred had taken toward the steps of the great hall. Magnus snatched her hand and veered left to the stables, acknowledging the smith coming the other way.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> “Are we leaving?” she ventured.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> “Let me think.”</span></div>
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Genre HISTORICAL ROMANCE<br />
Publisher PRAIRIE ROSE PUBLICATIONS<br />
Date of Publication NOV 14th 2019<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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kidnapped maidens? Sir Magnus and Elfrida strive to find the girls, but at what
cost to their marriage</b></span></i><span style="background: rgb(247 , 240 , 233); font-family: "&quot" , serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><b>?</b><b style="color: #4b6320;"><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">When a shadowy piper
kidnaps seven beautiful girls, can a wounded knight and his witch-wife save
them? Will Sir Magnus and Elfrida find them in time—and at what cost?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Magnus, the fearless,
battered crusader knight, and his fey wife, Elfrida, are happily married, but
each of them carries a secret. Elfrida believes that being peasant-born will
one day undermine her husband’s love for her. Wounded and scarred, Magnus fears
nothing—except, perhaps, that he will not be able to give Elfrida her greatest
wish—children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Their fears are
sharpened when high-born Lady Astrid appears at their manor and demands their
help to find the seven missing girls. Though the lady clearly regards low-born
Elfrida beneath her, why has she truly sought out Magnus, a ruthless knight?
Which one of the kidnapped girls does she really want to recover so badly—and
to what hidden purpose?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">In the scorching
summer heat, Magnus and Elfrida search together for the missing girls. Will
they be able to rescue them in time? And can their own marriage survive?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i>Here is an excerpt from the opening chapter:</i></b><br />
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England, summer, 1132<br />
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“I am the troll king of this land and you owe me a forfeit.”<br />
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Elfrida glanced behind the shadowed figure who barred her way. He was alone, but then so was she.<br />
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<i>Do I turn and run along the track? Should I flee into the woods or back to the river? He is close, less than the distance of the cast of a spear. Can I make it hard for him to catch me? Yes.</i><br />
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But catch her he would.<br />
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Play for time.<br />
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“Indeed?” she asked, using one of her husband’s favorite expressions, then sharpened her tone. “Why must I pay anything?”<br />
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“You have trespassed in these woods. In my woods.”<br />
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The nagging ache in her shoulders and hands vanished in a tingling rush of anticipation. Elfrida dropped her basket of washed, dried clothes onto the dusty pathway, the better to fight. “King Henry is lord of England.”<br />
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“I am king here.”<br />
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A point to him. “I kept to the path, and then the river.”<br />
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“That may be so, but I claim a kiss.”<br />
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He had not moved yet, nor shown his face. The summer evening made his shadow huge, bloody. Her heart beating harder as she anticipated their final, delicious encounter, Elfrida asked, “Are you so bold? My husband is a mighty warrior, the greatest in all Christendom.”<br />
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“That is a large claim.” He sounded amused. “All Christendom? He must be a splendid fellow. The harpers should sing of him.”<br />
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Elfrida raised her chin, determined to have her say. “I am proud of my lord. He is a crusader. He has seen Jerusalem and he has learning. He can whistle any tune. He defends all those weaker than himself.” <i>Should I say what I next want to say? Tease him as he has teased me? Why not? Are we are not playing?</i> “Go back to your woods, troll king.”<br />
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She heard the crack of a pine cone as he shifted. In a haze of motion the troll king was out of the tree shade and into the bright sunset, dominating the path in front of her. Taller than a spear, broad as a door, he had a face as stark as granite, of weathered, broken stone. Heavily scarred—many would say grooved—he had the terrible beauty of a victor, a winner wounded but unbowed.<br />
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A ribbon of heat, like hot breath, flickered across her breasts. He was so magnificent , so handsome. She both loved and hated defying him, even in jest. Striving for calm, she said, “You will come no closer.”<br />
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“Or what, little laundress?”<br />
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That tease irked her. “The clothes and bedding do not wash themselves. Not even for you, troll king.”<br />
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He smiled, a daunting unfurling of that scarred, sword-cut face. The churning heat in her belly swept up into her cheeks and down to her loins.<br />
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“I am a witch, besides,” she added, though not as coolly as she would have liked. She saw the gleam in his large brown eyes pool into molten bronze.<br />
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“You would put a spell on me, elfling?” he challenged.<br />
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“Perhaps I already have.” Her tone and mouth were as dry as the summer. <i>How much farther can we stretch this sweet foolishness?</i><br />
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He raised thick black eyebrows, while a breeze flicked and flirted with his shoulder-length curls. “Is that Christian?”<br />
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She wanted to cross her arms before herself, to shield her body from his bold stare. At the same time she longed to strip herself naked for him, unlace his tunic and caress him. Unsure how he might react, she armed herself with words instead. “I am a good witch, Magnus.”<br />
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“Indeed.” Again he looked her up and down, glanced at her buckets, basket, and clothes. “Should you not have an escort, wife?”<br />
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<i>Do I tell him I sent Piers off to help? Are we still playing now or is he truly angry?</i><br />
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Looming over her, he was close enough for her to touch him. To caress his strong body will be like stroking sun-warmed stone. Distracted, she shook her head. “There is the sheep shearing…”<br />
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“Done.” He tossed a stack of rolled, lanolin-scented fleeces at her feet. “I did my share and more and, as I have said already, I claim a reward.”<br />
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He winked at her and she found herself smiling in return. “Forfeit and reward, too, sire? Is that not greedy?”<br />
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“Are we in Lent, that I should fast?” He raised his hand, cupping her face with supple fingers. “But you are too dainty to linger alone, witch or no.”<br />
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He traced the curve of her lips with his thumb and, as she trembled, he gathered her firmly into his arms. “Any man will try to spirit you away.”<br />
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“Hush!” She made a sign against the evil eye and wood elves, but he shook his head at her caution.<br />
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“I have faith in your magic craft, Elfrida. But a passing knave or outlaw? He is quite another matter. He would see you as a tempting piece, my wife, my lovely.”<br />
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“I am not helpless,” she protested, but her heart soared at his loving words. His mouth, as crooked and scarred as the rest of his face, stole a kiss from hers.<br />
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He smelled of lanolin, salt, and summer green-stuff, and tasted of apples and himself. Elfrida closed her eyes under his tender onslaught, her thighs trembling.<br />
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“Troll King?” she murmured, when they broke apart slightly. “Is that how you wish me to address you in the future, husband?”<br />
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“‘Sire’ will do, or ‘greatest knight in Christendom.’ Those will do very well.” He kissed her again.<br />
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“You rob me, sire,” she murmured, a breathless space later.<br />
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“Of kisses?” He sounded delighted at the idea, the beast, and grinned when she pinched him.<br />
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“Even one-handed I can do that better than you.”<br />
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He demonstrated, squeezing and lightly slapping her bottom, chuckling as she thrust her hips back against his fondling fingers. A shred of modesty remained as her wits dissolved into a sweet blaze of need. “Magnus, what if someone comes?”Lindsay Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11513558547686982857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350339348313810194.post-22363109439572844392019-10-28T08:14:00.000+00:002019-10-28T08:48:33.728+00:00 Magic and magic-makers in medieval courts #MedievalMonday Blog for Halloween<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Sloane3188-john_dee.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Seal from a manuscript by John Dee (sourced from Wikipedia Commons)" border="0" height="320px" rba="true" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Sloane3188-john_dee.png" width="282px" /></a>Magic played a strange and ambivalent role in medieval society. Wise-women and wizards were sometimes tolerated or revered or sometimes persecuted as witches, particularly if their 'magic' went wrong. Yet at the same time, priests could perform magic and utter charms as well as prayers to combat evil or demons. </div>
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All levels of medieval society believed in magic, including the courts. Magicians might be employed at European courts as entertainers, as alchemists, as healers or as diviners. In the later Tudor period we have John Dee, who served Elizabeth I as her astronomer and occultist, and the alchemist and astronomer Paracelsus. In myth we have Merlin, one of the most famous magicians of them all, who was on the edge first of Uther Pendragon's court and then of King Arthur's, and feared and respected in equal measure. In France in the 14th century, the astrologer Thomas of Pisano made figures out of wax to destroy the invading English by magic.</div>
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Astrologers, alchemists and magicians, promising gold, health and power, were often welcomed at court and given high status. Yet their places were always vulnerable. Jealous rivals could accuse them of using magic in an evil way, as happed to Mummolus, a shrewd military tactician of the sixth century AD, a time when Frankish Gaul was split into several kingdoms. Accused of witchcraft by Fredegund, queen to Chilperic I of Soissons, Mummolus was tortured and died of his wounds. </div>
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In 1441 Eleanor, duchess of Gloucester, was accused of using ‘treasonable necromancy’ against King Henry VI in order to advance her husband. She was imprisoned for life, while the astrologers Thomas Southwell and Roger Bolingbroke, together with Margery Jourdemayne, ‘the Witch of Eye‘, were condemned to death. In the mid-1480s Richard III of England accused Elizabeth Woodville (previously married to a Lancastrian) of having bewitched his late brother Edward IV into marrying her.</div>
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Even the court of the medieval papacy was a place where members could be accused of magic - because magic-making was seen as a part of life and a way of gaining or keeping favours. In 1317 the bishop of Cahors was tried for using magic against Pope John XXII and trying to smuggle magical images into the papal palace in loaves of bread.<br />
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Magic and the belief in magic figures in my latest medieval historical romance, The Snow Bride. Elfrida the heroine is a white witch and she must do battle with an evil necromancer who has kidnapped her sister. You can read more about the story and an excerpt <a href="http://www.lindsaytownsend.co.uk/2019/08/the-snow-bride-medieval-romance-from.html">here</a>.</div>
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