Snippet Sunday!

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Here is a snippet from my The Unicorn and The Serpent. Out Now:

She ran from the castle, the idea of sitting through any more complaints made her head ache. The green gown moved with her as the summer breeze hit her as she rounded the side of the castle. She decided to go out to the pond and sit for a while in quite. She stopped, her eyes watching as Grady broke the surface of the water. He flung back his raven black hair, the water running down his very impressive muscled chest.

She had seen him this way before, but it had never truly made her breathless as it did now. The sight of the water glistening down his chest made her shiver and break out in gooseflesh. She shook her head. He had always affected her more than the others in one way or another.

“Great day, Morgan,” he said with a huge friendly smile as he walked out of the pond. Her first reaction was to look away, make an excuse and leave quickly.

“Hi, Grady.”

He stopped beside her in his soaking wet cut breaches. “Hiding from court?”

She nodded frowning. “I could not stand another bit of business when the day is so nice. You will not tell, will you?”

He reached over. His moist hand touched her shoulder as his fingers caught the loose shoulder of the bodice straightening it. She fought the warmth that dared to spread to her face. “I shall not tell,” he said. “If you wish we can go riding.”

She looked up into his grey eyes. “You want to race to the stable?”

“Now why would I want to do that?” He said with a smile and before she could reply, he started running for the stable. She cursed and ran after him. He beat her, barely. She punched him playfully in the arm, and before she could hit him again, he grabbed her hand gently and pulled her close to him.

“I figured if we play dirty we can almost whip you,” he said, his lips brushing her ear. Again, she felt the need to hide from the heat that threatened to pop her head off her shoulders.

“Cheat,” she said and he released her. “Come on we do not have all day.”

She got away with some riding, but a servant finally found them and told her Agnes demanded she go back to attend court. She sighed, and after giving her horse over to a stableman, gave in to leaving.

Blurb: Princess Morgan, wild and fiery, heir to her father’s throne, can best any man with a sword. Now a woman she is fearful of being Queen and marriage. But when visitors from a different kingdom show up Morgan is faced with big changes. Faced with loss, love and some touches of magic Morgan has to become the Queen she is meant to be or succumb to a life worse than death.

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