The Viking and the Witch: Chapter 6

Once again, Asmund woke up alone. He had dreamed he was with his father, walking through a lush, green wood in spring. He couldn’t remember what they had talked about, but he woke with a deep sense of relief, as if some great conflict between them had been settled at last. But he was alone.Continue reading “The Viking and the Witch: Chapter 6”

The Viking and the Witch – Chapter 5

Over the next few days, Asmund put all of his returning strength to repairing the broken boat. At first the barbarian girl, Maeve, just watched him from the cliff when she wasn’t busy with her own work. But at midday on the second day, she brought him food and stayed, still watching at first, thenContinue reading “The Viking and the Witch – Chapter 5”

The Viking and the Witch – Chapter 4

  Asmund woke up naked and alone. He opened his eyes to a patch of blue sky through a hole in the roof of a tiny hut. He could hear the roar of the sea and the screams of gulls and ravens. He felt hot but not feverish; someone had covered him with blankets heContinue reading “The Viking and the Witch – Chapter 4”

The Viking and the Witch – Chapter 3

Maeve had walked the path from her home village to the place on the beach where she had built her hut at least a hundred times. She couldn’t possibly get lost. But this time, she seemed to be walking for hours, and she was still in the woods. She couldn’t even hear the ocean inContinue reading “The Viking and the Witch – Chapter 3”

The Viking and the Witch – Chapter 2

As promised, the next installment of a good, old-fashioned magical historical romance: Chapter Two   Maeve spent the whole long night conjuring cures for the fallen Viking. She built up the fire then stripped off all his blood-stained and seawater-soaked clothes. She washed him all over, first with clean water from the ocean, then freshContinue reading “The Viking and the Witch – Chapter 2”

The Viking and the Witch – Chapter 1

So here lately, most of what I’ve been writing and publishing has not been historical romance. But y’all know me; I can’t just give it up. So I’ve been working sporadically on an old school paranormal just for my own amusement, and it occurs to me that y’all might want to see it, too. AllContinue reading “The Viking and the Witch – Chapter 1”

Naked: Phoenix Rising, Book 1

My baby sister, Alexandra Christian, has started a brand new series of sci-fi romance thrillers with Boroughs Publishing Group: OUT OF THE STACKS Librarian Phoebe Addison has lived her entire life within a seventy-five mile radius of her small Louisiana town, but when she receives a strange medallion from her adventurous, off-world sister, reality tiltsContinue reading “Naked: Phoenix Rising, Book 1”

Repairing the Perfect Beast

Three more days of freebies over at Little Red Hen Romance, including Miss Annabel Lee and the Clockwork Wolf, the first chapter in our steampunk series. Wanna taste? As soon as she knew they were gone, Annabel went down to the cellar. She dragged the old milk cans out of the corner, swept back theContinue reading “Repairing the Perfect Beast”

Big Girls Love Fairy Tales, Too

Another Little Red Hen excerpt, this one from the contemporary fairy tale novel, The Last Winter Knight, free to download this week only: The bedroom door opened on a long upstairs gallery that looked down on the entryway she’d seen when he carried her in. All of the gas lamps were lit, giving all theContinue reading “Big Girls Love Fairy Tales, Too”

Furious Angels (Need Love, Too)

He is her special angel . . . bless her heart. Wet Work, available free this week from Little Red Hen Romance: Rosie woke up on a bed with a sombrero-shaped headboard. “Ay carimba.” “You.” Matthias, the angel she remembered from her first night as a witch, was pacing over her. “It just had toContinue reading “Furious Angels (Need Love, Too)”