Spotlight on ONE ENCHANTED SCOTTISH KNIGHT #ReadaRegency
My guest today is a new author acquaintance from the Authors Helping Authors group. Laura Strickland is here to share an excerpt from her Scottish romance, One Enchanted Scottish Knight. Look at this awesome cover!
Blurb:
From a young age, Tansy Bellrose Gant has been getting into trouble and wanting what she should not have. Just because she can make certain things happen by wishing doesn’t mean she’s a witch. But when she rashly curses a neighbor, her fellow villagers tie her to a stake at the crossroads and threaten to send her to the Royal Commission for trial.
Malcolm Montgomery is a man carrying an unbearable burden of guilt and obligation. The last thing he needs is an encounter with a troublesome wee lassie who just might be a witch. But once rescued, she won’t go away. In fact, she insists on involving herself in his quest to ransom his brother, and she charms her way into his bed, as well.
Has Tansy merely enchanted him, or has she claimed his heart? When she faces the ultimate danger, how will love be enough to save her?
Excerpt:
This man wore darkness. She saw it in his hair—a fall of straight black locks loose upon his shoulders—and in the eyes that met hers briefly before he focused on her bloody hand.
She’d sensed that darkness in him when he rode down on the crossroads, a thing of spirit as much as appearance. Some great blackness rode within him. For all that, she sensed no cruelty. And och, aye, he carried beauty also.
Had she ever seen such a countenance? Narrow and elegantly-sculpted as that of a raptor, his face tapered from sharp cheekbones to a strong jaw now well-covered by black beard. Above those eyes—black as the gaze of a raven—slanted two eyebrows like wings, fleet and mobile. Even as she watched they drew together over his bulwark of a nose and black lashes swept down.
“Forgive me. I must have cut you when I slashed those ties. Let me see—how bad is it?”
He smoothed away the blood with strong, graceful fingers—touched her blood, her being—and Tansy quivered again. For an instant she felt so dizzy she feared she might tumble from the great horse’s back but the knight’s arm anchored her.
She found her voice. “A small price to pay, Sir Knight. Would you no’ say?”
That returned his eyes to hers. They gazed at one another so intimately, so deeply, Tansy felt a connection take hold between them.
Was that just the last remnant of the spell she’d woven, vibrating? She could not tell.
Buy links:
Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/Enchanted-Scottish-Knight-Laura-Strickland-ebook/dp/B07T92SBWC/ref=sr_1_1
Amazon Canada:
Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Enchanted-Scottish-Knight-Laura-Strickland-ebook/dp/B07T92SBWC/ref=sr_1_1
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Kobo:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/one-enchanted-scottish-knight
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About the Author:
Multi award-winning author Laura Strickland delights in time traveling to the past and searching out settings for her books, be they Historical Romance, Steampunk or something in between. Born and raised in Western New York, she’s pursued lifelong interests in lore, legend, magic and music, all reflected in her writing. Although she enjoys travel, she’s usually happiest at home not far from Lake Ontario, with her husband and “fur” child, a rescue dog . Author of numerous Historical and Contemporary Romances, she is the creator of the Buffalo Steampunk Adventure series set in her native city.
Links:
Author Web site: www.laurastricklandbooks.com
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Author Amazon page: http://www.amazon.com/Laura-Strickland/e/B001KHSACW/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
Author Goodreads page: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/760146.Laura_Strickland
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