Snow in July
by Kim
Iverson Headlee
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BLURB:
Commanded
to marry by William the Conqueror, and facing shattered oaths and a ravening
evil power determined to overthrow the new king, Alain and Kendra face a battle
unlike any other as their honor, their love, their lives, and even their very
souls lie in the balance.
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EXCERPT:
A young woman was standing on the staircase’s top landing as
Alain approached. No, he amended, feeling his eyes widen and his blood heat, a
goddess. The suggestive clinging of her grayish-blue gown made him forget his
blasphemous lapse.
He shifted from foot to foot to mask his reaction. Her
ashblonde curls, creamy complexion, and alluring curves conquered his fear of
failure. As his heart thrummed its praises of her beauty, he vowed to protect
this lady unto the ends of the earth.
But he tempered his lauds with a petition for wisdom, for he
needed to ascertain her heart. Experience had taught him the folly of loving a
beautiful but title-hungry woman like Marie.
Yet sorrow enveloped this lady like a shroud. The slope of
her delicately boned shoulders, the tilt of her petite chin, the hooded reserve
of her slate-blue eyes, the slight pout of her full lips all sang the same
dirge.
Blessed Virgin, could I be the cause of her misery? Please,
let it not be so!
He wanted nothing more than to gather her into his arms and
kiss those lips until their song transformed from sorrow to joy.
Their gazes met. Her look, a cross between appreciation and
reprimand, made him remember his “station,” and he looked down.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Kim Headlee
lives on a farm in southwestern Virginia with her family, cats, goats, Great
Pyrenees goat guards, and assorted wildlife. People and creatures come and go,
but the cave and the 250-year-old house ruins—the latter having been occupied
as recently as the mid-twentieth century—seem to be sticking around for a while
yet.
Kim is a
Seattle native (when she used to live in the Metro DC area, she loved telling
people she was from "the other Washington") and a direct descendent
of twentieth-century Russian nobility. Her grandmother was a childhood friend
of the doomed Grand Duchess Anastasia, and the romantic yet tragic story of how
Lydia escaped Communist Russia with the aid of her American husband will most
certainly one day fuel one of Kim's novels. Another novel in the queue will
involve her husband's ancestor, the seventh-century proto-Viking king of the
Swedish colony in Russia.
For the time
being, however, Kim has plenty of work to do in creating her projected 8-book
Arthurian series, The Dragon's Dove Chronicles, and other novels under her new
imprint, Pendragon Cove Press.
TWITTER – https://twitter.com/KimHeadlee
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AMAZON AUTHOR
PAGE – http://www.amazon.com/Kim-Headlee/e/B001KE2LK2
LINKEDIN – http://www.linkedin.com/in/kimheadlee/
YOUTUBE CHANNEL
– http://www.youtube.com/user/gyanhumara
YOUTUBE VIDEO
INTERVIEW: http://youtu.be/DV5iKrEIROk
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Giveaway:
Kim Iverson Headlee will be awarding a $25
Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Follow the tour HERE
Thank you for hosting
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ReplyDeleteKim Headlee
Stories make us greater.
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