First
off, it’s my mum’s birthday today. To say how grateful I am for her in my life isn’t
enough. Happy Birthday, mum! Love you lots. Really do.I’m also celebrating the release of Rhain and Helissent’s story: The Knight’s Scarred Maiden.
Let me tell you a bit about it.
Mercenary knight Rhain wanders the lands, fights for coin, and is haunted by his past. Then in a wreck of an inn, he tastes a cake made sublime with honey, and rescues a woman he wants more than any sweet. But with a vengeful warlord pursuing him, he’s merely a dead man awaiting the sword.
Helissent’s
family died in a tragic fire, and she bears the scars for all to see. When
she’s forced from her home, she bargains with her cakes for the traveling
mercenaries to take her to a different town, even though, disfigured and shamed
she survived when her family didn’t, she knows she’ll never have a better life.Along the way, both Rhain and Helissent reveal their pasts, and begin to long for a future. But with the enemy pursuing them both, is it too late?
There’s so much to this story. A fun fact would be that the heroine, Helissent, is a baker. She compares her struggles to failed bakes, and thinks of people like ingredients. She also talks in baking terminology, which confuses many a discussion. I loved discovering how she thought.
So I had the bright idea to try a few of her Medieval recipes. Let’s just
say I had a few failed bakes of my own, and I shared my misadventures at the
Harlequin Blog: http://harlequinblog.com/2017/05/misadventures-in-medieval-cooking-recipe
If you want to follow the Blog Tour from August 1st to August 25th, where I talk more about the story, what's on my desk and even in my closet, the schedule is here:
Now, to celebrate the release, I’m giving a signed copy of The Knight’s Scarred Maiden to one randomly chosen person who comments to this post.
The question is: How do you like celebrating special occasions?
The contest is internationally available and I’ll keep the comments open until August 22nd when I announced the winner!
