Blurb
Crippled by shyness, shunned for being not-right-in-the-head,
gifted artist and Roman noblewoman, Marcia Mica, has only two people in the
world who truly love her – her teacher, Daedalus, and her childhood friend,
Asterion, both slaves in her father’s household. But when forbidden love blooms
between the unlikely friends, only disaster can come of it. That disaster
leaves Marcia horribly scarred and Asterion sold into the arena as a gladiator.
Years later, Daedalus brings a broken Marcia to Britannia, and
Sabrina, the healer who saved his life when he was a boy, works miracles on the
scarred girl. However, not all scars are physical and those Sabrina has no
ability to heal.
When Sabrina and Marcia are kidnapped by a Celtic leader bent on
revenge, Asterion must depend on the dreams of a Celtic Seer to find the love
of his life and help foil a revolt that threatens the fragile peace in Roman
Britannia. But even if he and his friends succeed, can scars that are more than
just physical ever really be healed and can those whose lives are owned by
others ever truly be free to follow their hearts?
Excerpt
She launched herself at him so fast
that he again dropped the sack of flour. Her tightly closed lips butted against
his in a fiercely innocent kiss. It smashed her teeth into his, cutting his
lip, and it felt nothing like the soft, seductive caresses the Widow gave him.
But it was like putting a naked
flame to tinder. Like a lightning strike to a tree. The very fact that her lips
were sealed to his blew every thought from his head and brought him to instant,
painful attention. Blood pounded in his ears, his legs grew weak. Air
evaporated from his lungs.
Fighting for control, he pushed her
away. ‘What are you doing? Stop!’
‘You don’t have to go to her. If
kissing is what you want, I can give you that. You don’t have to go to her!’
‘Yes I do!’
‘Why? Aren’t I good enough for you?’
He grabbed her by the shoulders and
shook her in fury. His head felt ready to explode.
‘I need more than kisses! Don’t you
get it? We aren’t children anymore. And I need more than friendship and kisses.
And you can’t give me what I need. You’re the little mistress and I’m the
slave. They’d cut off my balls if I so much as looked at you the wrong way!’
Author bio and links
After
a lifetime of teaching others to appreciate the written word, Aussie author
Nhys Glover finally decided to make the most of the Indie Book Revolution to
get her own written word out to the world. Now, with almost 100,000 of her
ebooks downloaded internationally and a winner of 2013 SFR Galaxy Award for
'The Titan Drowns', Nhys finds her words, too, are being appreciated.
At
home in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales of England, Nhys these days spends most
of her time "living the dream" by looking out over the moors as she
writes the kind of novels she loves to read: The ones that are a little bit
steamy, a little bit different and wholly romantic.
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