Hi Lee! Thank you so
very much for having me back on your blog!
I had a lot of fun the last time I was here. I appreciate the opportunity to talk about my
latest release and do a giveaway! You
have such an amazing line up of guests, that I feel honored to be on the
list. :)
That said, I want to tell you about Haunting Warrior,
which is being re-released in mass market paperback today (and that means the
Trade edition price finally comes down, yay!) I also want to tell you a bit
about my 99 cent quick read, Irish Mist and
THEN I want to do a giveway! First up, Haunting Warrior.
HAUNTING WARRIOR
Summary:
Rory McGrath’s life changed the night he uncovered the
secrets of the ancient Book of Fennore. Then the dreams begin of a woman whose
touch is more real that any he’s known. Rory is plunged back in time and into
the body of another man betrothed to the very woman of Rory’s dreams. Her hold
on Rory is inescapable. She is his doom. His salvation. And his destiny.
Scene you like the most
and would never cut?
Saraid’s people have been hunted down and all but
annihilated. In desperation, her brother
has arranged for her to marry the enemy and make him their ally. Terrified, but determined to meet her fate
with dignity, Saraid agrees to become the wife of Ruairi the Bloodletter, named
for his cruelty and violent nature. But
on her wedding day she discovers her new husband is not the Bloodletter at all,
but someone who wears the same face and looks at her with a stranger’s eyes.
Below is the scene when she first realizes there is more to
her new husband then the cruel warrior she sees. Her perceptions are filled with
contradictions and I loved writing the complex emotions she experiences.
There were too many to fit into the tiny
church, so they gathered on the pathway before it. For a moment, no one moved
or spoke. Then Cathán pulled a blue ribbon from his tunic and stepped forward,
giving Saraid and the Bloodletter the signal to face one another. On wobbly
legs, Saraid turned to the man she would wed. The monk in his long coarse robes
emerged from the small gathering and stood patiently waiting for Saraid to put
her right hand in the Bloodletter’s left. Her left in his right, wrists
crossed. With a satisfied grunt, Cathán began to twine the ribbon around their
hands, over and under until the knot of eternity was complete. She was numb
through the monk’s speaking of the vows. If she did not know better, she would
say the Bloodletter was feeling the same. There was a gleam of something that
might have been panic in those blue, blue eyes. Did he dread this as much as
she? But that would mean Ruairi the Bloodletter had feelings, and that could
not be true.
She took a deep breath when he lowered
his head to kiss her, feeling dizzy and sickened and something else she could
not define. As if sensing the turmoil inside her, he caught her gaze and held
it for a moment, his searching, probing. She felt as if he were trying to say
something with those enigmatic eyes, and for a flashing instant she felt again
that sense of another lurking behind the sky blue of them. What a frightening
mystery this man was.
And then his mouth settled over hers and
thought fled. His kiss was warm and soft when she’d expected cold and hard. The
touch of his lips gentle and coaxing when she’d prepared for rough and invasive.
The kiss was brief, and yet it felt that time stopped for the length of it,
giving her the chance to feel every nuance, every unexpected instant. It seemed
he tried to pull back and then hesitated, allowing just another moment of the contact
that shocked her like a hot ember popping from a blazing fire to burn her. With
their hands bound and trapped between their bodies, Saraid could do little more
than allow it. She’d be allowing so much more later, when they were alone.
He pulled away, just enough so that he
could look into her eyes again, and she saw something there that she did not
understand. Confusion that matched her own. A need—but not the kind she’d expected.
Not lust, but longing.
Then he was stepping back and a mask
came over his features once more. His father stared at him for a moment, the
look hard and warning, the message unmistakable. It was only then that it
occurred to her that the Bloodletter might be as much a pawn as she.
What you think
readers will like best about this book: Rory and Saraid were made for one another—and
it is the dance of two wary individuals who have met their match I loved most
about writing this story and I think readers will find most intriguing. Six-four and ripped from shoulders to abs, Rory
is tough on the outside and lost on the inside.
He’s shunned his heritage and the very magic that has shaped his family
for centuries, but Rory can’t help what he is…a man with powers he’s yet to tap
and with a fierce yearning for the woman who is now his wife.
For Saraid, life has always been hard. Saraid is visited by the dead, warned of
their pending deaths and yet unable to stop the deaths from happening. She is feared by others and she’s learned not
to trust anyone. But when the blue eyes
of the man she’s wed offer her a chance at something she never thought to have,
Saraid cannot say no.
What’s next?
The final installment of my Mists of Ireland series released
on October 2011 (although I must confess, there are a few characters that just
refuse to let me go until I tell their stories…like Eamonn and Liam and maybe
Jamie….). I’ve recently released a few
fun novellas that are currently on sale for 99 cents. The latest
is Irish Mist—Can Kasey trust the bond he's formed with
the woman who stepped out of his dreams and into his arms, or will he lose
everything in a single mistake? You
can find information on all my books and upcoming releases at
www.erinquinnbooks.com/books
Erin Quinn is an award winning author who writes romance for
the thinking reader. Her books have been
called “riveting,” “brilliantly plotted” and “beautifully written” and have
won, placed or showed in the Booksellers Best, WILLA Award for Historical
fiction, the Orange Rose, Readers Crown, Golden Quill, Best Books, and Award of
Excellence. Go to www.erinquinnbooks.com for more
information or follow Erin on FB http://www.facebook.com/ErinQuinnAuthor
or twitter @ErinQuinnAuthor.
I love to hear from readers and want to know how you like
your paranormal. Is it vampires? Shapeshifters? Angels, clairvoyance, magic, or….? 2 lucky commenters will win reader’s choice
of Erin’s ebooks: Echoes, Whispers or
Web of Smoke. So talk to me!
***Erin's winners are Tina B and Connie! Ladies please email me at totebag@authorsoundrelations.com with your mailing details!***
