Today's Teaser Comes From The Viking Princess
He laughed at her, making her
senses bristle.
She was not amused. “Am I
humorous?”
“I have heard you are many
things,” he replied, “but humor has never been cited as one of your virtues.”
“First you laugh at me, and
then you belittle me. Is this the way you treat all women?”
He pulled back on the reins.
His horse slid to an immediate standstill. Then, burying his face into her
hair, he whispered in her ear, “I have shown enormous restraint. Would you like
me to show you how I treat all women?”
The burning ember inside her
flared to a flame. The muscles low in her belly tightened, as she clenched her
legs tighter, wrapping them around his steed. Sucking air into her lungs, she
felt the immediate pulse of desire race through the core of her body. She
wanted to reach back over her head and wrap her arms around his neck, to pull
him even closer.
It was all she could do to hold
her tongue and keep from begging him, when all she wanted to say was, “Yes,
yes, please show me.”
Her body motionless, she could
feel the warmth of him as his hands grew bold, slipping beneath the soft linens
covering her, his fingers gently gliding up over her stomach, travelling
beneath her breasts and edging up…
A voice whispered inside her head.
What are you doing? This man is your enemy. He intends to kill you, your
brother, everyone you love…
She grabbed his wrists, holding
him still and steady. “You have caught me, kidnapped me, and dragged me here. I
may be your prisoner, but do not think that I am interested in your advances.”
His body tensed and he pulled
back his hands, gripping her firmly about the waist. “I, Holger, the prince
over all the Norse lands, have never had a woman decline the privilege of being
my lover.”
“Prince or pauper, it matters
not to me what rank you hold, for I, too, am highborn and accustomed to many
privileges,” she snapped back, unwilling to let him bask in his own conceit.
“And being your lover is not a privilege I would prize.”
“Perhaps,” he said, softening his
touch. Slowly he ran his finger down the length of her neck, taunting her. “But
are you accustomed to this?” He swung her around to face him; his mouth moved
to her neck, gently caressing her throat with his lips and tongue.
The warrior with the devil’s
horns was surprisingly gentle and tender with his affections. Morgaine could
not contain her pleasure. A small sigh moved up from her throat, over her lips,
unexpectedly escaping into the night air. “This is nothing,” he whispered
against her flesh, his hand moving down over her navel. Travelling to the
valley between her thighs, he pressed his fingers into her apex and she gasped
at his touch.
He pulled his hand back. “After
your shrill tongue and insults, the next time you will have to beg for my
attentions.”
His tone shocked her back into the
present. No man had ever spoken to her in this manner. He had no idea of her
power. She was not some peasant he could toy with. Morgaine Le Fey was a
princess, the sister of King Arthur. It was her turn to laugh…and it came out
of her loud and hard. He must not know of her talents. She was the most
powerful sorceress in Camelot and perhaps a dozen other kingdoms.
“Me? Beg? To think you will ever
witness such an act from me,” she started to say but then shook her head and
continued, “You must be more than foolish.”
“We will see,” he said,
sounding more arrogant and insolent than ever.
“Yes, we shall see,” she
replied, as he gave his horse a nudge and they continued riding.
Everyone knows of Excalibur and
King Arthur but few know about his brother-in-law, the Danish Viking Prince and
warrior Holger Danske or his sword Cortana.
The Viking Princess is a
New-Adult retelling of folk-lore legend and Danish warrior, Holger Danske, and
his magical romance with King Arthur’s sister, Princess Morgaine Le Fey.
They met on a battlefield, poised against each other, but their
attraction was more powerful than any sword, stronger than any warrior and more
magical than Merlin, yet theirs is a tale more tragic than Romeo and Juliet.
Meet The Author
I'm a writer who grew up in a family
with 9 kids and only 1 t.v. so I spent my days reading and,
later, writing. I love books. . .maybe because I never got to pick t.v. shows
we watched. But I’d run home after school to catch the last fifteen minutes of Dark
Shadows...
I still love to run...or at my
age, maybe I should say wogging (a cross between walking and jogging). Here in
Portland, I love Halloween themed runs - where people don costumes and run.
It's a lot of fun...and I know those two words don't always go together:
fun...and...run. But it is.
And, with all those Halloween
themed runs, I guess Dark Shadows had more of an influence than some people
might think. Even today my favorite author is Stephen King. My all-time
favorite book is Salem's Lot.
Favorite romance novels are
The Hunger Games...okay, I know, it's a survival book but it's really all about
romance. Then there were the series: Twilight, Fifty Shades, and more but I
also love paranormal, Horror and even light books like Dewey the Small Town
Library Cat... Mainly, I just love to read. . . and write.
I've just had my first novel
published and am looking to share it with the world. It's a story I was
inspired to write after visiting Hamlet's Castle and seeing an enormous Viking
statue down in the tunnels next to the dungeons.
Sorry to be so long-winded but did I
say I love to write? ...and talk and...knit, and sew, and bake... I could go on
but I'll stop by saying, I hope you’ll stop in on my site and I can tell you I
have a young adult horror novel coming in July: Demon’s Ink.
Thanks for listening.
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