Announcing Held for Ransom, a story that holds my whole heart

I am very excited to announce the imminent release of Held for Ransom, a medieval spanking romance set in the pre-Arthurian days when pagan priestesses and druids existed alongside Christian knights.

There are some stories that are just so vivid to me, they truly call to me and have my whole heart. This is one of them. I realize the themes of knights and women who can see through the veils of 3D existence are similar to those of The Knight's Prisoner, so I suppose this is a theme with deep meaning to me. I don't know--I have been fascinated with the Arthurian legend since I was a child, particularly adoring Mary Stewart's Crystal Cave series as well as Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon. I have also worked in recent years to release my fears around my own clairsentience and to trust the guidance available to me.

Part of what interested me in setting a book during this time period is showing the tension in a relationship in which the divine feminine is respected and yet the physicality of masculine dominance is still present and necessary for survival. Princess Ariana is a priestess at Avalon, kidnapped (oops, another similarity to the Knight's Prisoner--guess I love that theme too) by Sir Gorran and held for ransom for an exchange of prisoners (Sir Gorran's sister has been abducted). Sir Gorran is the sort of man who has the utmost respect for Ariana and her station as priestess, yet spanks her when discipline is warranted. There aren't as many spankings in this novella as some of mine (wait till you read "Unmet Desire" from the Milestones anthology--it's about bootcamp, so it's chock full!) but I didn't want to add any that didn't fit just for the sake of more spanking. I wanted to stay true to the characters and tell their story as it appeared to me.

I hope you will read it when it comes out Feb. 20th and let me know what you think.