Friday Feature New Book Heaven-sent Warrior
Guest shares about
how her heroine cooks like she used to.
by
Nancy Lee Badger
Release Date: July 18, 2018 by Soul Mate Publishing
I am excited to announce my latest book, and the first one to take place in North Carolina, my adopted home. C. D. asked me to share the book as well as a recipe, so I searched through the story and found my heroine, Kenzie, is not very well-off. She cooks like I used to…using store-bought ingredients! So, I have included an excerpt of what happens when she decides to make Italian spaghetti for her unwelcome guest, who claims he was born in France in the 19th century!
When I make it, I grab:
a box of thin spaghetti, preferably whole wheat
a jar of heart-smart tomato sauce (hubby prefers Prego)
I boil the spaghetti about 6 minutes
I add oregano and roasted garlic powder to the sauce
if I remembered to buy some, I serve with a loaf of Italian bread and a salad
This is an inexpensive meal which turns a little exciting (read the excerpt!)
Book Blurb for Heaven-sent Warrior
Henrí Chevalier’s last memory, before stumbling naked into a museum’s moonlit garden, was Auguste Rodin and his dusty Paris studio in 1886. To escape his broken heart, Henrí volunteered to sleep inside a statue until needed. Expecting to die, he discovers he must learn to use the unexpected powers Heaven has given him. Without them he will fail his mission against otherworldly creatures, such as demons and faeries.
Kenzie Mackintosh, a dedicated art museum’s curator, spies a naked[image error] man hiding among bronze statues. A quick glance ignites desire within her, but she is too tied-up in work to act on it. Unaware of her fae heritage, their relationship heats up as he disrupts her job. While Henrí tries to process modern buildings, cars, and a broken elevator, a demon attacks and forces Henrí and Kenzie to enlist the aid of her powerful fae relatives. When the demon possesses the body of her ex-lover and threatens to kill him, then use her to take over the world, Henrí and Kenzie must learn to trust each other, even if Kenzie’s death might be the only answer to the world’s salvation.
Excerpt
Beside the small sitting room, and the guest bedchamber, the rear of Kenzie Mackintosh’s apartment boasted an airy kitchen filled with the aroma of garlic and tomatoes. When a chilly breeze hit Henrí, he saw that the large rear window stood wide open. Kenzie’s hips swayed in time to music spewing from a box on a table while she stirred a pot sitting on what seemed to be a metal cook stove. He crossed the room and slammed the window shut.
“Why did you do that?” When she whirled toward him, a spoonful of something thick and red splattered his chest.
“Merde!”
“Sorry!”
Henrí peered at his stained shirt, then at the faerie. He unbuttoned the shirt, then wrenched it off his shoulders.
She gasped.
Her response surprised him. Had she not declared herself less than innocent? When she seized the shirt from his hands, and ignored his naked chest, her prudish facade dissolved.
“I’ll rinse that later. I’m cooking.”
“Duly noted.”
“I cook when I’m nervous,” Kenzie admitted.
After she stirred the pot’s contents once more, she set down the spoon, and carried his shirt down a dark hall to another room. When she returned, she resumed stirring the thick sauce. It bubbled even though no flames danced beneath the pot. Water boiled inside another pot. She opened a box and dumped long, thin sticks into the water. Aromas filled the small kitchen, heightened by the oppressive heat.
“Doors and windows must stay closed. If it followed us . . .”
She turned to say something, but her mouth fell open. Her gaze swept down his naked chest. When tiny beads of perspiration dotted her forehead, he yearned to lean in and lick them away. When she found her voice, her eyes rose to meet his. They shined bright with determination and strength. “Followed? I didn’t see anyone.”
She was either brave, or in league with the demon. With no time to discover the truth, he opened his magic-enhanced senses. Her essence glowed with an aura so bright, a demon would have a tough time trying to control her.
Her breasts rose and fell under his attentiveness. She licked her lips, and his body tightened with desire. Desire so intense, both were surprised to hear hissing as the pot of water boiled over.
“My stars!” Kenzie reached back and turned a knob. Hot droplets sprayed her wrist and she dropped the sauce-covered spoon.
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More About the Author
Nancy Lee Badger grew up in Huntington on New York’s Long Island. After attending Plymouth State in New Hampshire, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education and met and married her college sweetheart. They raised two handsome sons in New Hampshire and when the children had left the nest, and shoveling show became a chore, she retired from her satisfying job as a 9-1-1 Emergency Medical Dispatcher and moved with her husband to North Carolina, where she writes full-time.
Nancy is a member of Romance Writers of America, Heart of Carolina Romance Writers, Fantasy-Futuristic & Paranormal Romance Writers, and the Triangle Association of Freelancers. She loves to travel and attend Scottish Highland Games and is never far from her laptop. She finds story ideas in the most unusual places.
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