Two weeks ago, I promised an excerpt from Christiana's Choice, my medieval novel I'm preparing to self publish this month. Instead, I substituted Where Eagles Cry because I went through the horror of discovering it was no longer on my PC. It wasn't until my husband suggested I look on our other two computers that I found it, but too late. Whew. I don't know how I deleted it from this one, but I did. Which says a great deal about always having a backup, doesn't it?
THE STORY
Christiana, only child and heir of the Earl of Gladsbury, binds her chest and dresses as a boy in denial of her womanhood. Instead, she longs to be a knight. Should the earl die in battle, she and Gladsbury would be at the mercy of the king. It’s not only time that she marry, but that she learn a noblewoman’s task of managing as well as defending a castle. Hoping to awaken her sensuality, the earl assigns her for defense lessons to his two most eligible knights, but will Christiana respond as he has hoped?
In the excerpt scene, the earl is injured and Rowan, known as the Dark Knight, suggests they pray for him.
EXCERPT
Incense filled
the hushed chapel, its scent as familiar and comforting as the ritual use of
the holy water and the sign of the cross.
Christiana’s upturned
face as Rowan turned to hand her the lighted shaft glowed in the soft light, as angelic
as a fine painting. Their hands touched as he passed the candle to her, and he
felt a small hot rush jolt through him that had nothing to do with the heat of
the candle’s flame. He felt her start and knew she’d felt it too for her gaze
locked on his own, her face a study in surprise. He held her gaze, fighting
desire as it welled up inside him, creating the need to taste the sweetness of that
innocent mouth, brush her eyelids with his kisses, crush her tight against him
so she could feel how his body swelled with wanting.
Would her naked
skin feel like silk beneath him, if he took her here, now, would the holy stillness
be broken by her keening cries as his body brought her to heights of love she’d
never known?
In the
flickering candlelight and the scent-filled room hazy with smoke from the
tapers, it was as if they were caught in their own moment in time, as if they
were the only two people in the world.
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