Season’s Greetings! I hope everyone is enjoying a
fabulous holiday season so far. I'm thrilled to announce Sean and Svala's holiday novella is
finally available. It was interesting writing a festive story around a
Christian and a Pagan, but love most certainly found a way. Not to say it was
easy! But then nothing about Svala really is. Nonetheless, it was a fun ride
and I hope you enjoy!
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Description
Having time travelers in
your life isn’t always easy. Given that he’s said goodbye to several of them
over the past few years, Sean O’Conner knows that better than most. Now his
best friend Megan has returned from tenth-century Scandinavia to modern day Maine.
Not only has she aged over twenty-five years, she hasn’t traveled through time
alone. Her troublesome daughter Svala is with her.
Of dragon blood and
proud to be Viking, Svala Sigdir has no use for the twenty-first century and
makes it evident to all around her. Even so, she will protect her mother at all
cost. Meanwhile, she needs a man. Sean to be exact. Despite his aversion, she is
determined to make him hers.
Svala might be after
him, but Sean wants nothing to do with her. At least that’s what he tells
himself as the holidays arrive and he struggles to keep peace in what’s become
a battleground instead of a festive Winter Harbor home. At his wit’s end, he
finally calls on an old friend’s help. Or so he had hoped. Cast beneath the
spell of a powerful Scottish wizard determined to protect his Viking Ancestors,
Sean and Svala go on an unexpected yuletide journey. As it turns out, there’s
only one way to break free from the spell. A life-altering choice that might
very well cost Sean both his sanity and his heart.
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Excerpt
Svala wrapped her fur cloak around her shoulders and
started to breeze past them as she eyed his crew mate. “So you’re New
England ’s finest, are you?”
“Naw.” Nick chuckled and nodded at Sean. “Most ladies think
he is.”
“Hmm, I’m not sure about that,” she said before she started
down the hallway.
“I don’t think so.” Sean grabbed her wrist and stopped her.
“Nick, go make sure none of the guys head this way. Tell them I’m catching a
rat or something.”
Svala winked. “Or a dragon.”
“Where you gonna hide her, Cap?” Nick kept grinning. “She
don’t look like the type of woman who’ll keep hidden if she’s decided
otherwise.”
Svala cocked a grin at Nick. “I think I like you.”
“I know I like you, beautiful,” he returned.
“Just make sure no one heads this way, Nick,” Sean
reiterated. “And I’ll make sure Svala stays hidden.”
“I betcha will.” Nick chuckled as Sean pulled her toward
the meager sleeping quarters.
“I am not staying down here.” Svala started to fight him.
“I want to be on deck. I want to help you fish.”
“Hell, no.” Sean grabbed her before she could bolt in the
opposite direction. “My men won’t be able to concentrate on work with you
around.”
Her eyes met his. “Then you must not lead them well if they
are so easily distracted.”
It felt as if the narrow hallway only grew smaller as her
eyes pinned his…as he remembered with vivid clarity how she’d felt against him
last night. “You know damn well the effect you have on men.”
“I did not dress in modern day clothes.” She pulled the
cloak off her shoulders. “See, I am dressed like a Viking again.”
His eyes fell to the fur-trimmed, leather tunic. To her
unmistakable curves. He swallowed and tore his eyes away. “What difference does
it make? You’re still trouble.”
“Only when I dress like a modern-day woman, yes?” Svala
cocked her head. “That is why you fought for me last night, is it not? Because
you desired me in those clothes?” She frowned. “Now I am not wearing them. You
will not desire me so they won’t either. There will be no trouble. You will not
be ashamed of yourself.”
Sean had no idea what to make of her logic. “I’m not
ashamed of myself.” But he had been when he overreacted last night. “And trust
me, sweetheart, it doesn’t matter what you’re wearing. You’re gonna distract my
men.”
She didn’t press closer, but her words made the hallway
seem even narrower as she murmured, “Am I distracting you now, Sean? Is that
why you seem so convinced?”
When they hit a small swell, he braced his hand against the
wall beside her head and bit back desire. “Just do as I ask, Svala. I don’t
need any trouble, okay? Not with my men.” He ground his jaw. “This is my
livelihood. Please don’t screw it up.”
Shockingly enough, Svala looked as though he’d slapped her.
“That’s not why I’m here, Sean…” She trailed off, clearly upset before she
gathered herself. “I just wanted to see you fish.”
“Commercial fishing isn’t like normal fishing.” He shook
his head. “There’s not much to see, really.”
Except when the nets came up. That feeling of excitement
and expectation before they found out how big a load they’d caught.
He had no idea what to make of the look on her face. She
was vulnerable in a way he’d never seen her. “I’m sorry,” he murmured, not sure
what to say, still confused about why she hadn’t already traveled back in time.
“Maybe I can take you out fishing another time?”
“Maybe,” she said softly, her eyes alarmingly gentle as she
stepped close. “So how are you going to keep me entertained while you hide me
away?”
Ah, there she was. The little Viking he knew so well.
Except this time he wasn’t stepping away.
Something about having her on one of his boats, on his
turf, on the high sea…was different. Somehow, though it was on his territory,
they had found common ground. The sway of a ship. The pulse of the ocean
beneath them.
“Sean,” she whispered, clearly sensing a crack in the wall
he’d kept between them. Slowly, inch by inch, she unzipped his jacket. “If I
understand things correctly, you aren’t needed for hours yet. Why don’t we use
that time in a pleasurable way, yes?”
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