First Kiss Friday with C.H. Admirand!

Welcome to my First Kiss Friday blog. I’m so happy to have my friend C.H. Admirand returning to give you an excerpt from her novel Rescuing the Lady of Sedgeworth. You can preorder it now for $0.99 or read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited. Releases on November 9th. Happy reading, my lovelies. We hope you enjoy this first kiss scene!

Excerpt:

Without a word, Winslow picked up a spoonful of stew, blew on it, and held it before her lips. She shook her head and pointed to the bowl of broth and bread.

“’Tis sorry I am, lass. I shouldha’ realized yer throat pained yet to eat as well as speak.” He dunked the bread in the bowl and mashed it with the spoon until it would be easier to swallow. She let him feed her, his large hands surprisingly gentle.

The tension eased out of her shoulders as he held the spoon and continued to feed her. In between bites, he ate, until at last their hunger had been satisfied.

Genvieve wanted to thank him, the need to speak aloud overwhelming her. But Winslow was looking away from her, and did not see her lips moving. She grabbed his arm with her good hand.

Their eyes met, and a powerful current arced between them. Desire flared again and entwined with the need sweeping through her, robbing her of her breath. When his hand lightly cupped her chin, pinpricks of awareness tingled where he touched her.

His sharply indrawn breath seemed overly loud in the stillness of the chamber. His head lowered until his lips brushed hers in a tentative kiss. He paused, pinning her with the intensity of his gaze, before capturing her lips in a searing kiss.

She felt a moan of pleasure rise up within her, but the sound could not be heard over his low growl of approval.

She felt dizzy, dazed when he lifted his lips from hers breaking the connection.

His dropped his forehead until it rested against hers. “I dinna mean to startle ye, lass,” he rasped.

She wanted to tell him that he had not and gently cupped his cheek. Hoping her smile of encouragement would speak for her, she waited, watching him.

“Och, dinna tell me ye crave another?” he teased, obviously understanding her look.

She tilted her head back, preparing for his kiss.

This time the bone-melting kiss nearly shattered her composure. He ended the kiss, stepped back from her and stared at her as if he were seeing her for the very first time.

They were both breathing heavily when the chamber door swung open and a deep voice boomed. “My wife wanted me to bring these linen strips to you,” Garrick said to Winslow.

When neither one of them moved, he stared from one to the other. Finally he shrugged. “Do you need help wrapping her hand?” he asked, handing the linen to Winslow.

Genvieve’s heart skipped a beat watching Winslow’s hands fumble with the strips of cloth Garrick handed to him, before deftly wrapping her wrist. Would either man sense the jolt of awareness that rocked her every time Winslow touched her? Mon Dieu, she hoped they could not. “Jillian will send Simone to sit with you tonight, Genvieve.” Garrick walked to the door. “She’ll be up shortly.” Looking from Genvieve to Winslow and back, he shook his head and left.

Genvieve’s gaze drifted to where Winslow stood awkwardly beside the bed. He almost seemed reluctant to leave. She gave him a small smile of understanding and mouthed the word, Merci.

With a brief nod, he turned and was gone.

Lying back against the feather-soft mattress, Genvieve let her eyes drift closed. In her mind’s eye she recaptured the rough image of the Scots barbarian who was rapidly becoming her sole communicative link with the rest of the world. The potent sensuality behind his kiss reverberated through her, and she realized that he was already so much more.

Sleep beckoned, but it was the promise of dreams filled with more of Winslow’s kisses that lulled her under.

Rescuing the Lady of Sedgeworth
The Ladies of the Keep (Book 3)
By C.H. Admirand

Rescuing the Lady of Sedgeworth (The Ladies of the Keep, Book Three) is connected to The Lords of Vice series and The Duke’s Guard series, through MacInness and his Irish mercenaries—the O’Malleys, brothers Patrick and Sean and their cousins, Kelly and Eamon—ancestors of the O’Malleys who appear in these two Regencies series.

The heroine in Rescuing the Lady of Sedgeworth, Genvieve de Chauret, is cousin to Augustin de Chauret, both are ancestors of Mignonette de Chauret who marries Sean O’Malley in The Duke’s Protector (The Duke’s Guard, Book 2.)

The Ladies of the Keep must decide to place their trust in an unlikely ally–or lose everything they hold dear!

Kidnapped Norman beauty Lady Genvieve is on her way to her cousin’s new holding Merewood Keep, when her escort is overpowered. Struggling to flee from her captors she is brutally beaten, suffers a blow to the throat, and is knocked unconscious.

On his return to Merewood Keep, MacInness, vassal to Garrick of Merewood, sees a midnight-haired angel being attacked. He interferes, and the enemy’s arrow hits its mark, shooting his warhorse out from beneath him. Nothing will stop him from rescuing the woman, but her throat is injured, and she cannot speak. He brings her to his overlord’s home, unaware of who she is or the changes that have taken place while he was in Scotland. Waiting for her to recover he discovers a woman he can love. One who will finally replace the one he can never have, his overlord’s wife.

Genvieve de Chauret is drawn to the handsome Highlander who risked his life to save hers, and falls in love with him. Someone wants her dead, and when MacInness marries Genvieve, his life is now in danger as well. When MacInness is attacked, rumors abound that it is his wife who wants him dead. When Genvieve’s life is threatened, they have to look into their hearts, and that of their keep’s people to find the traitor threatening their newfound happiness.

It takes a strong warrior to realize that in order to win the heart of his lady, he must not force her to become what he has been taught to anticipate, but to accept her for who she is.

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Releases November 9th.

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About the Author:

If we have not met yet, I’m delighted to meet you! Here’s a little bit about me…

I have been writing romance novels for almost half my life, well at least for the last 30 years. I’m a diehard romantic and have to confess the broad shoulders and wicked glint in the brilliant green eyes of a stranger had my breath snagging in my breast, my heart beating madly, and my future flashing before my eyes. At the age of seventeen, I’d met the man I knew I was going to spend the rest of my life with.

I write Historical & Contemporary Romance featuring characters that I know so well: hardheaded heroes and feisty heroines! They rarely listen to me and in fact, I think they enjoy messing with my plans for them. Over the years I have learned to listen to them! I have always used family names in my books and love adding bits and pieces of my ancestors and ancestry in them, too!

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