by Alice Wilde
“We can discuss it in the morning,” says Roan. “I think we all could do with a bit of sleep.”
Roan is holding the door open, signaling that he’s ready for me to leave. Not a chance in Valhalla.
“You’re right,” I say as I walk over to the bed and jump on it, kicking my boots off over the edge. “We should get some sleep.”
Roan slams the door.
“I hate you, Ero.”
“You’ll thank me for this later.”
Twenty-Eight
Annalise
As disappointed as I am by Ero’s arrival, I know he’s right. We were already at the brink of ruining things before, and I don’t know if I could have said no a second time…especially if left alone.
Ero is lying across the bottom of the bed, sleeping. Roan takes a seat by the fire, trying to calm himself, and I curl up in bed to sleep.
I’m unusually exhausted and fall asleep faster than expected.
A deafening noise wakes me from a deep sleep and I sit up in confusion as I try to remember where I am. Roan props himself up in the bed beside me. Ero is standing at one of the windows looking out.
“What is it, Ero?” I ask.
He turns, but as soon as our eyes meet, I can tell something is wrong.
“We’re being attacked.”
“What?” Roan exclaims, leaping from the bed and running to look out the window. “Lass, get your shoes on, now!”
I grab my slippers and pull them on as Roan throws his shirt on over his head and laces his own shoes.
“Who’s attacking?” I ask.
“Vikings,” Ero says, his expression blank but hard.
I stare at him in shock until Roan lifts me into his arms.
“Ero, we need to go, now!”
“What about Li?” I ask.
Our door bursts open and we all turn to look, Ero and Roan both assuming defensive positions.
It’s Li.
“I didn’t have much time to prepare since the wedding, but I have a few things,” Li says. “Let’s go!”
Together, we race out of the room and through the castle. The halls are full of people drunk from the wedding, running every which way in utter chaos. Roan does his best to guide us through the castle as quickly as possible and we manage to get out into the main courtyard.
Ero bolts off to the training ground area and returns a moment later with an axe, bow, and set of blades on a leather strap.
“Might as well prepare for the worst,” he says before handing Li the bow and placing the blades around Roan’s waist.
“It’s now or never,” Li says, and we once again run together out of immediate danger and onward toward our next destination. I can’t help but wonder what we’re getting ourselves into…
I look back over Roan’s shoulder at the Viking invasion happening behind us even as we journey onward, toward the land of the Vikings.
How will we ever return, let alone prove to his family and people that he is worthy of being laird after what I’m sure they’ll deem as a cowardly desertion? Perhaps they’ll accuse me and Roan will grow to resent me….
Gods, this is going to be a mess.
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Her Viking
The Royal Shifters - Book 3
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Three gorgeous shifters. A queen on the verge of ruin. One dangerous Viking voyage.
The harder I try, the worse things seem to get.
In a matter of weeks, I’ve been married twice, kidnapped, witnessed death, and visited a fae kingdom.
Now, after running away from my problems yet again, I have to try to help Ero convince a people he hasn’t seen in decades to accept not only my own plight as their own, but to accept Ero as well. What’s worse, I can’t even seem to keep Ero and Roan from each other’s throats.
With Damien barely a step behind, how am I supposed to save Ero’s hide when I’ve barely managed to save my own? Will Ero’s dark past be too much to save us, or is it the key to our future?
Ero.
My stormy-eyed leopard.
My hardhearted companion.
My Viking.
The Lioness of Egypt
The Shifters of Africa Book One
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A murdered pharaoh. An evil sorceress. And three lion shifter kings.
Sanura would do whatever it took to be the next queen of Egypt – even if it meant marrying her younger half-brother and waging war on all of Africa. But when the pharaoh is murdered and Sanura blamed for the crime, she barely escapes the city with her life.
With nothing and no one to help her, Sanura finds herself at the mercy of a lion shifter African king. One of Egypt’s sworn enemies. A man who would be better off with her dead.
And he’s not the only lion king she needs to worry about.
About the Author
Alice Wilde grew up with a love of reading and spent her teens writing and submitting her essays as fantasy stories, much to the annoyance, but often high marks, of her teachers. Now, she spends much of her days writing historical fantasy paranormal romances (filled with gorgeous men and, of course, magic) that she hopes will spark a flame in readers as much as they do in herself.
Alice is currently living with her cat in a bustling city she never sees much of, as she's too busy dreaming up, writing down, and living in her next paranormal RH romance, though she generally finds enough time for a real-life date or two... We all need a bit of inspiration now and again, right?
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