Nope! Don't get excited! Bess McBride has not entered the foray of Highlander romance writers, but my writing friend,
Sky Purington, has been writing about Highlanders and the women who often travel to time to find them for years! This is her latest release,
Highland Persuasion. The cover alone by artist
Tamra Westberry is to die for. Tamra is also my cover artist, don't ya know. Feast yer eyes, lassies, and enjoy the blurb and excerpt. Since you can't see much of the gal's face on the cover about to lay lips against the Highlander, assume that it's your face! Uh huh! Buy links (which I know you want, dear friends) follow!
Blurb:
Iosbail
MacLomain will do whatever it takes to bring Laird Alexander Sinclair to his
knees. Even if it means she has to travel through time to eleventh century
Scotland and manipulate a king into marrying her off to the enemy.
What she doesn't anticipate is a bitter rivalry between King Edgar and
Alexander Sinclair. It seems the man she just married is by birthright a threat
to the throne. Her plans are suddenly hindered when she and her new
husband are almost murdered.
Their lives on the line, Alexander and Iosbail are forced to flee across the
country. Fraught with risk, adventure and wild, unexpected desire they struggle
against overwhelming odds. Only on MacLomain land does justice stand a chance.
Will a true king find shelter so far from his homeland? Can a woman set out for
vengeance forgive deeds done wrong?
Better yet, can enemies persuade one another to forgive and perhaps even
love?
Find out in a powerful story that leaves no soul untouched...
HIGHLAND PERSUASION.
Excerpt:
Despite
protocol, Alexander’s eyes slid from the king to the lass. While his senses slightly
registered that she wore a Broun plaid, they were far too consumed with the
rest of her to be rightfully infuriated.
Long and
thick, blue-black hair flowed around a figure so alluring it was sinful. When
she sauntered his way, Alexander stood straighter, reared up some might say,
almost as though he were a wild horse first meeting she who would master him.
He did not like
the feeling.
When she
stopped before him, Alexander reached for the sword at his side only to realize
it wasn’t there. Forced to meet her blazing sky blue eyes and exquisite face,
he said not the proper thing but, “You came to steal my soul.”
While
clearly she’d been poised to say something haughty her expression wavered—as if
as confused as him—but she quickly regained her composure. “I am Iosbail Broun,
she who is to be your wife.”
Despite the
fact his king watched and tradition said he bow, Alexander did not. Instead he
took her gloved hand and brought it to his lips where he made a point of giving
it a cherished kiss. His eyes stayed locked with hers. Soft, so that it’d be
barely heard, he said, “In name only will you ever be my wife.”
Not fazed by
his rudeness, she offered a small smile; thick black lashes lowered, full pink
lips curled slightly. With a whisper light word she said, “Sinclair.”
It was if she
tasted his name for the first time.
Alexander
wanted to catch the single word and hold it against his heart.
Mortified,
well aware the Devil was at work, he squeezed her hand a little too harshly. Iosbail’s
eyes rounded. He lowered his head but never removed his gaze from hers.
‘Twas all
that needed to be said between them.
Sky is
the best-selling author of seven novels and several novellas. A New Englander
born and bred, Sky was raised hearing stories of folklore, myth and legend.
When combined with a love for nature, romance and time-travel, elements from
the stories of her youth found release in her books. Sky loves to hear from readers and can be contacted at Sky@SkyPurington.com.
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