Erin, thank you so much for featuring me on your
blog today. I’m very privileged to be sharing a Samhain Publishing release date
on 11th June with four super-talented ladies – Mari Carr, Joely Sue Burkhart, Shelli Stevens and, of
course, Erin, whose summer scorcher is called She’s The One.
Brothers Of The Wild North Sea is a big departure
for me – M/M of course, but my first foray away from contemporaries and into
historical romance. I loved writing the book, though. It’s a tribute to my
native Northumberland, England’s northernmost county, and the passionate
spirits who helped form the land and its wild, beautiful culture in its
earliest days. And a starred review by Publishers Weekly certainly makes me
feel a lot more confident about unleashing the story on the world!
Brothers
Of The Wild North Sea – what happens when the
deadliest of enemies becomes heart’s desire?
Caius is working really hard to be good.
He loves his life as a monk in the far-flung Christian stronghold of Farne, but
he’s the son of a warrior chieftain, with hot blood in his veins. His biggest
temptation is Leof, his sweet-natured friend – and, all too often, his lover.
When Vikings raid the monastery and Leof
is killed, Cai questions his whole existence. All he wants is vengeance on the
raiders. The last thing he expects is to find compassion in his heart for
Fenrir, a young Viking wounded and left for dead. Defying his abbot, Cai uses
his skills as a physician to save Fen’s life.
At first Fen tries to repay the kindness
by attacking every Christian he can reach, but as time passes, Cai’s goodness
to him reaches his heart – and Cai, who had thought he would never love again,
feels the stirring of a profound new attraction.
But Cai and Fen are from different
worlds. When old loyalties call Fen back to his tribe, can love be hold them
together – and will they discover the ancient secret of Farne in time to
prevent a catastrophic war to end all wars?
Here’s an
excerpt:-
Up ahead was a crescent of rocks whose outer edge
was turned to the storm-driven tide. A wave broke over it just as Cai and Fen
fell into its sheltering curve, but it would do. The wind howled a little less
fiercely there. The sea still stretched out its paws, but couldn’t drag them
back. Sand was piled up here, strange rippled structures marked with kelp and a
million fractured shells.
Cai pulled Fen out of the storm. They dropped to
their knees, huddling against the rock. This time when Fen’s mouth sought his,
he turned to him with a cry of joy and relief. Fen had been right—his blood was
singing already, so loud the angels must hear. His skull banged off stone, and
he reached up through exploding stars to grab anything he could of the Viking’s
hot muscle and bone. Fen resisted him, tearing back to arm’s length, far enough
to see him.
“Caius.”
“My wolf from the sea.”
“Yes.”
“You came for me.”
“Well, none of your other lily-arsed brethren would
do it. They saw you, and they ran around like headless chickens, but…”
“They’re not sailors. They’re not…” Not you, Cai
wanted to finish, but his throat had seized up.
“Not pirates. Not vikingr.”
Cai nodded. Like their shelter, it would have to do.
Another wave broke, spray arcing high, landing with a seething crackle all
around. Fen’s mouth was salty with it when it next landed on Cai’s, and he
moved like the thunder, bearing Cai down onto the sand. But Cai was full of
newborn faith and certainty. He rolled on top, pinning him, and Fen looked up
and whispered, “There you are,” as if in recognition. As if at the end
of a long, lonely wait.
Cai shuddered. He straddled Fen’s thighs and ran a
hand down over his stomach, over the hard plane that rippled and arched to find
his touch. Fen was erect beneath the leather thong of his leggings. He moaned
when Cai freed him, sea-chilled fingers clumsy on the lace. His cock lifted
stiff and full into Cai’s grasp, a vision seared into Cai’s brain by the
lightning. In the green-flashing darkness that followed, Cai plunged down on
him, shifting to allow him access in return. He buried his face on the side of
Fen’s neck. That great, strong hand was on him now, between their bodies,
undoing him.
Brothers Of The Wild North Sea is available to
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and Barnes
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