First Kiss Friday with Misty Urban

Welcome to my First Kiss Friday blog. I’m pleased to have as my guest a new author to me. Help me welcome Misty Urban who has a first kiss scene from her new release Viscount Overboard. We hope you enjoy this excerpt. Happy reading, my lovelies!

Excerpt:

He faced her and the heat from the fire soared up from her toes, traveling through her entire body. Her fingertips tingled. The hair on the nape of her neck rose.

His voice was a husky murmur. “Desire is powerful at any age.”

Oh, indeed it was. Gwen let her eyes drift closed as a shiver passed through her body. She leaned toward him, riveted by his warmth. His solidity. The delicious scent of him, leather and sweat and the barest hint of rosemary from her soap.

Calvin Vaughn’s unwanted advances had left a foul imprint on her. She wanted it erased. She wanted to immerse herself in Pen instead. The thrill that went through her at his very nearness tore free the parts of her she held so tightly. The sheer intensity of wanting him cleared her mind and cleansed, somehow. The man had plucked a burr from Ifor’s collar before it could prick the blind boy. He had let Cerys lure him into her hunt for St. Sefin’s lost treasure.

He had, that very afternoon, come back from mucking stables around Newport with a new set of boots for Tomos. In truth an old set that the cobbler had repaired, in return for Pen’s help in making deliveries. But he had brought boots.

She turned to him and drew a deep, steadying breath. “Will you kiss me?”

“What?” His eyes widened, growing dark, and his voice was thick and deep.

“I asked will you—”

The rest of the words disappeared on his lips as he swooped in. This was no tentative foray. His hot mouth fell upon hers and she opened her lips eagerly to his seeking tongue. The contact summoned a wave of molten desire, swift and shocking. She’d expected him to know how to kiss a woman. She’d expected to enjoy it. But this—she dug her hands into his hair to hold his head so she could kiss him forever, let the whole world fall away and leave just them, just this, his warm mouth, his clever tongue, the scent of the man making her head swirl. Kissing Penrydd felt like the most important, the most profound, the most necessary thing she had ever done in her life.

Behind her, the kettle screamed.

Viscount Overboard
By Misty Urban

When the war-scarred Viscount Penrydd washes up in 1799 Newport minus his memory, Gwenllian ap Ewyas decides not to tell him he owns, and threatened to sell, the property she’s made a refuge for her and other lost souls.

Gwen found healing from her haunted past by making St. Sefin’s into a sanctuary for the hurt and abandoned, and she’ll do anything to preserve the place-including lie to the English lord who owns it until she can win him to her cause. But making Penrydd her stableboy is a dangerous game, especially when he’s a target for an outside menace moving into Newport. Even more unsettling for Gwen, under the scars and arrogance is a man she can admire and possibly love. But as shadows from both their pasts appear at St. Sefin’s, Gwen risks losing her livelihood, her home, and her heart when Penrydd learns just how far she’s gone to deceive him.

Buy Links:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Viscount-Overboard-Ladies-Least-Likely-ebook/dp/B0CJFYD24J/

B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/book/1144349420?ean=9781648395277

Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/p/books/viscount-overboard-misty-urban/20851818?ean=9781648395277

About the Author:

Misty Urban is a fiction writer, medieval scholar, freelance editor, and college teacher. She holds a Ph.D. in Old and Middle English and an MFA in fiction from Cornell University and lives in a small town along a big river in eastern Iowa.

Find me:

Website: https://www.mistyurban.com

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/mistyurban