Vengeance Hammer’s released!!
Yay – I am so excited *doing a snoopy happy dance*
For the next five days, I’ll be featuring excerpts from the last book in the Viking Vengeance trilogy, and running a quick contest for a free copy of Vengeance Hammer. Simply leave a comment and you’re entered! The winner will be announced on Wednesday, May 8, 2013.
So far Vengeance Hammer is only available on Amazon, but the ARe and Barnes and Noble links should go up soon. I’ll post them here as they become available. Here’s the Amazon Link:
Vengeance Hammer Excerpt:
Xára could scarce draw a breath.
The man walking alongside her held her fate, Jennie’s, and that of Evie’s in his hands. Dráddør, the man who had dedicated his life to killing Arnfinn, Earl of Caithness, thought she was dull-witted no matter what Jennie had told him. She had considered pretending to be such, but ’twas not her nature to cower to anyone.
Jennie.
She swallowed her tears.
Locked her jaw and grappled for control.
If only she had known that Jennie had resolved to end both her life and Arnfinn’s. She would have stopped her from drinking the poison.
What had caused her to make such a sacrifice? And why did Jennie refuse to speak of it? What terrible threat had Arnfinn used? Or had it been another?
Hatred, raw and grating, boiled her blood to thundering in her ears. She despised the man all thought her father. She loved the woman all thought her mother.
Blinded by her fury, she bumped into a side table and would have tumbled had not Dráddør grabbed her by the waist. His aroma enveloped her at once, veiling her other senses as she inhaled the mingled aromas of male sweat, leather, and the sea. So different from the female perfumes of lavender and rose she had grown accustomed to at the abbey.
He wore no gloves and an inferno danced over her skin where his fingers gripped her through the threadbare habit. She could not recall the last time any but a woman had touched her with such gentleness. ’Twas intoxicating and exciting and dizzying.
And yet she sensed naught of him. ’Twas her gift, her strength, to touch someone and catch a brief memory playing in the present, an oath taken, a port visited, mayhap even such trifle as a thirst quenched. Yet naught escaped from this man.
He steadied her. “Are you ill, lady?”
The wonder of his voice. Deep, like low thunder vibrating through clouds. Dense, rich, strong, and heated like a boulder baked in the sun. Mesmerized by his low rumble, she yearned to press her fingertips to the corded veins in his thick neck, and learn from him how to speak again.
“Lady Xára, are you faint?” He gave her a little shake.
She dared not look at him, too afraid her confusion and the secret, delicious thrill coursing through her showed plain on her face. Ducking her chin, she nodded, shifted out of his hold, and picked up her pace.
Now her awareness of him, of the warrior manliness leashed beneath those powerful muscles and his immense size, bubbled through her veins. Her nape grew damp and she had to choke back a nervous tickle scratching at her throat.
He muttered something she did not catch and she swept him a surreptitious peek. His mouth had canted into a grim line and she knew his patience with her, Jennie, the whole lot of it, was nigh at an end.
“’Tis pointless.”
Hope you enjoyed!
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Cheers,
Jianne
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your books are hot, keep them coming
Thanks Mary, I’m typing as fast as I can 🙂
Jianne has a great mind to come up with her stories.
I have read all of them and she knows which ones I am waiting for….Tiny????
Hey Laurie,
Those will be coming out next year and you’ll get to read the first one before anyone else – Laurie reads for me, everyone, and points out my errors. That Pearly Drop’s coming your way soon. 🙂
Thanks for stopping int!
these books look hotter than summer in the south.
They are Diane – what’s hotter than a Viking and a paranormal element???
Hello Jianne,
Congrats on your new release. It sounds really good and appeals to me greatly. Also I’m reading your newsletter and I’d like to wish you a hearty congrats on your nominations for Best Book 2012. I would love to see your stories on Showtime or Starz. Crossing my fingers for you!! I’m in Texas and it’s warming up fast. Please send snow. lol! I miss it. My hubby and I will be here for 2 more years and then he’s retiring from the Navy. I told him we must go back up north. I can’t stand the heat. As a matter of fact the only heat I want is in books! 😉
Hope luck is with me. I’d love to read VH. 🙂
Thanks Mel – it’s the second year in a row that two of my books have been nominated for best book – maybe one day I’ll win!! No snow for you as I’m back in south Florida – you could’ve had all from Kansas -haha.
I need to catch up on your Viking Warrior stories! I have the first 3 but haven’t read them yet…they are sitting nicely in my TBR pile 🙂 Love the sound of this story too!
I have a soft spot for Vikings of all kinds, Eva. Good Luck!
Congrats on your release!! So awesome! Best wishes lady! 🙂
Thank you much, Shadow. Nice to hear from you.
Congrats on the new release.
Merci Lisagk – I appreciate you stopping by.
Cannot wait to read this story. Congrats on the release.
I hope you like Vengeance Hammer when you read it Catherine. Thanks for dropping by.
Thanks for the awesome giveaway. The book sounds relaly great. Congratulations.
It’s always a love/hate relationship writing the end of a series, Victoria, but I think Vengeance Hammer wrapped up the trilogy nicely.
Thanks Timitra!
Yay! Congrats! Happy Release day!