His cheek to mine, Tris nudged my lips aside and finished my kiss with Des. His fingers unclasped mine from where they rested around Des still, and he drew my hand up into the chill of the night.
Uncoupling me from Des. By his will.
I saw the shroud of jealousy thickening around him, a veil he had kept parted only by the strength of that not-inconsiderable will for the moments we’d had. His gift to us, to himself.
Des understood.
“Thank you,” he whispered, to me, to Tris, to Fate.
Then he rose, our Adonis, doffing the tunic and standing for the moment proud before us, his every emotion at our parting as naked as he. For us he smiled, and the moon hid her shame at such radiance.
“God keep you, Des,” I murmured, for nothing else to be said between us needed words to say it.
“Go in peace,” Tris whispered, and his voice nearly broke on the farewell.
“Edrun,” Des said softly. “My true name… it’s Edrun.”
He shifted then, leaving us with the last gift of his name and the miracle of the hound who had saved us.
Still on our knees, Tris and I listened to the bittersweet music of his baying until distance swallowed it, perhaps forever.
Then, putting aside thought of Mark and Andret and any doom our future might bring, I made good on my promise, and Tris and I forged our own sweet song beneath the stars.
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OTHER WORKS
Arthurian Hearts Series
(Arthurian Paranormal Romance)
HEARTSONG (Book 1)
QUEEN’S HEART (Book 2)
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Arthurian
(Non-Paranormal but with Romance Elements)
SPOIL OF WAR
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Medical Thriller
SECTOR C
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HEARTSONG
(Arthurian Hearts Book 1)
A sexy historical paranormal.
Includes M/F and light menage.
In the time of King Arthur, the greed of men as they spread across the British Isles is driving out the magic of the fae. Brinn is one of the fair folk, betrothed to the son of Herne, Leader of The Wild Hunt. By night, in her Gabriel Hound form, Brinn runs with her pack, wreaking justice on those who desecrate the land.
Alain and Pellinore, under orders from their father, King Pellam, attempt to negotiate a peace among the march lords stalking the borderlands of Listeneise. When they unwittingly thrall an injured Brinn, she knows only one thing can free her: the blood of her captors.
But freedom may not be so easily won as the three of them form a grudging bond that soon turns intimate. Love should be easy, but The Wild Hunt wants Brinn back, the Questing Beast wants Pel, and Alain wants the impossible—to keep them both at his side.
SPOIL OF WAR
Elsbeth of Olmsbury desires nothing beyond helping her father run his dukedom - until the duke's forces are overwhelmed, his castle torched and Elsbeth seized for the invading king's personal spoil. Expecting the same abuse as the other surviving women of her house, Elsbeth instead finds the king, Leodegrance, treating her with a civility that belies his flagrant desire for her. A desire that will have her his consort in Cameliard once he can convince her rank and duty alone forced his hand against her father.
But Elsbeth is not so easily won. There is the matter of Leodegrance gifting his steward with an unwilling young handmaid from Elsbeth's household. Of his marriage of convenience to his Byzantine queen. And of his plans to subjugate more of Britain's citadels and unite the wild isle under Roman rule.
If Elsbeth can't find her tangled way to forgiveness with the king—or escape the dark designs and perverse desires of Uther Pendragon, enemy to them both—then a legend of Camelot may never be conceived, never be born, and never change history forever...
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Please note: This novel takes place in a harsh era when spoils were often treated as commodities. While the violence toward women and children is period-appropriate and for mature adults only, it is never gratuitous. The story focuses on adaptation, survival and, ultimately, love in the Dark Ages before Arthur was made king.
SECTOR C
(Medical Thriller)
A rise in stroke-like cases has CDC analyst Mike Shafer on alert. Patients in every demographic in the Great Plains area, from toddlers to healthy adults to the elderly, are succumbing to rapid deterioration—and death.
Veterinarian Donna Bailey, meanwhile, is dealing with an outbreak of her own. It looks like mad cow disease. But to be affecting so many species? Impossible.
Whatever it is, it’s spreading. Fast.
As state and federal agencies race to contain the growing threats, Mike and Donna’s searches for Patient Zero intersect at a big-game compound in a remote corner of North Dakota. There they find their answer buried in a secret thought extinct for 10,000 years. A secret entrepreneur Walt Thurman will kill to protect.
But even if Mike and Donna can escape the compound with the secret of Sector C, it may already be too late.
Because after today, extinct no longer means forever.
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Table of Contents
PROLOGUE EDRUN
CHAPTER ONE YSEULT
CHAPTER TWO TRISTAN
CHAPTER THREE EDRUN / PALOMIDES
CHAPTER FOUR TRISTAN
CHAPTER FIVE YSEULT
CHAPTER SIX PALOMIDES
CHAPTER SEVEN TRISTAN
CHAPTER EIGHT YSEULT
CHAPTER NINE TRISTAN
CHAPTER TEN PALOMIDES
CHAPTER ELEVEN TRISTAN
CHAPTER TWELVE PALOMIDES
CHAPTER THIRTEEN TRISTAN
CHAPTER FOURTEEN TRISTAN
CHAPTER FIFTEEN YSEULT
CHAPTER SIXTEEN PALOMIDES
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN YSEULT
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN BRANGIEN
CHAPTER NINETEEN YSEULT
CHAPTER TWENTY YSEULT
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE YSEULT
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO TRISTAN
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE BRANGIEN
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR TRISTAN
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE YSEULT
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX BRANGIEN
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN PALOMIDES
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT TRISTAN
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE YSEULT
CHAPTER THIRTY PALOMIDES
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE YSEULT
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO YSEULT
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE YSEULT
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR YSEULT
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE YSEULT
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX TRISTAN
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN PALOMIDES
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT TRISTAN
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE YSEULT
CHAPTER FORTY PALOMIDES
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE TRISTAN
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO YSEULT
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE PALOMIDES
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR YSEULT
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE PALOMIDES
CHAPTER FORTY-SIX PALOMIDES
CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN YSEULT
CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT PALOMIDES
CHAPTER FORTY-NINE YSEULT
CHAPTER FIFTY YSEULT
CHAPTER FIFTY-ONE PALOMIDES
CHAPTER FIFTY-TWO YSEULT
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