This snippet is from my debut release with Ellora's Cave, Betrayed.
Enjoy!
Lucius
Marius Tacitus saw the arrow impale the water sprite, saw her enchanting green
eyes widen in shock, but before he managed to leap from his horse, she tumbled
to the ground.
White
fury lanced through his chest as he sheathed his sword and knelt by her side.
She still breathed. But she was not conscious.
“Sir,
are you harmed?” The mounted auxiliary rode to his side, his bow in his hand.
Tacitus gave him a scathing glare.
“Harmed?”
Derision dripped from the word. “By the hand of a girl?”
The
foreign auxiliary glanced at the fallen Celt. “She’d drawn her dagger. I
thought her about to attack you.”
Tacitus's fist clenched. By the gods, he'd string that Gallian auxiliary up by his balls if this Celt died from her injuries.
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Betrayed
In 51 A.D., Druid priestess Nimue is
injured and enslaved by the hated Roman Legions. Even though she is
drawn to her captor, she’s determined to escape and complete her mission
for the Briton king and her duty to Arianrhod, the goddess she is bound
to.
The tough Roman warrior who captures her
is far from the brutal barbarian she expects. His touch inflames her
desires and passion burns between them. Though Nimue does not accept her
enslavement, her heart surrenders to her enemy. When Arianrhod appears
to her in the form of an owl, Nimue knows the union is blessed.
Roman warrior Tacitus is enchanted by the
fiery beauty who shows no fear and challenges him at every turn. Though
enslaving her goes against his heart, he’s determined to make her his.
No woman has ever heated his blood as she does. But when he discovers
her true nature as one who actually communes with the gods, his
loyalties are torn between his heritage and a woman who could destroy
everything he’s ever believed in.
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4 comments:
I get the feeling he means his threat! Nice snippet, Christina.
Thanks, Shelley! And I think he does, too :-)
Interesting excerpt -- I definitely want to know more about your Roman and the kind of man he is. Anger over shooting the girl could be because women aren't warriors in his opinion, or because he told her he wouldn't hurt her and his subordinate broke his word, or because shooting her could set off retaliatory attacks...
All of which is my long-winded way of saying you picked some good paragraphs for grabbing a reader's attention!
Thank you M.Q.!It's absolutely the first one :-) He can't imagine how a fragile female could possibly be a danger to him :-)
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