Title: Dark Warrior
Genre: Erotic Medieval
Romance/Menage
Flame rating: Scorching
Released: 1/15/2014
Publisher: Siren BookStrand
When Nicholas Herron, Duke of
Berwick and his best friend, Rolf Torgesson, two of King Edward III’s most
powerful and respected knights, discover a badly beaten young woman hiding in
the forest, they swear to protect her. By the time they learn that she is
Lady Kathryn Weston, and that her attacker is none other than her betrothed,
Robert Walford, the powerful and ruthless Duke of Pemberton, it is too late.
They have both fallen in love with her and she with them—a love so
forbidden it could cost them everything, even their lives.
Bent on revenge, Walford uses
his power as Chief Magistrate of the Crown to issue two arrest warrants, one
charging Kathryn with attempted murder, the other charging Nicholas with high
treason. For years he has been abusing the authority of his office by
bringing false charges of treason against loyal knights and confiscating their
wealth to finance his scheme to overthrow Edward and seize the throne of
England. Getting his hands on Nicholas’s vast fortune would finally allow him
to accomplish his goal.
Traveling to Berwick to serve
the warrants in person, Walford’s triumph is short-lived when Nicholas publicly
humiliates him and sends him packing. Incensed, Pemberton hastily
assembles an army to lay siege to Berwick castle, vowing to take it apart stone
by stone. But Nicholas has anticipated just such a move and he has taken
countermeasures to assure the safety of everyone at Berwick—especially Kathryn
and their unborn child.
But Walford does something no
one expects. He sneaks into Berwick castle and seizes Kathryn and all of
a sudden certain victory becomes a desperate race for Rolf and Nicholas to save
their home and rescue the woman they love.
Set amidst the turmoil and
pageantry of 14th-century England, Dark Warrior weaves a vivid
tapestry of three lost souls who find each other and a deep, abiding love that
could ultimately destroy them all.
They were upon her before she
could flee.
Rudely snatched up out of the
deep sleep of exhaustion, she lay huddled, still and frightened, trying to
disappear into the hard, frozen ground. The piles of leaves and pine boughs she
had carefully piled on top of herself now seemed totally inadequate to conceal
her. The nightmare she’d so desperately tried to escape was finally upon her.
It surrounded her. She could
hear it in the form of men shouting, hounds barking, mail clanking, hooves
pounding. She could smell it in the form of sour sweat, overheated horses. She
could taste it in the form of bitter bile rising in her throat—Sweet Merciful
Virgin! He’s sent an entire army after me! To hunt me down and run me to
ground like a helpless animal!
Nearly out of her mind with
fear, she curled up into a tight ball, making herself as small as possible. She
pressed her face into the frozen dirt, hoping against hope that the brown and
tan of her stolen clothing would help make her invisible.
Don’t let them find me.
Merciful heaven, don’t let them find me. Please don’t—
She let out a shriek as a
growling dog sank his teeth into the rough cloth of her sleeve and yanked
viciously, sending leaves and twigs flying. Others, barely kept in check by
their handlers, lunged at her, snarling and barking, nipping at her with their
slavering jaws. She could feel them buffeting her, felt the heat from their bodies.
Sweet, merciful God! She threw her hands up in a desperate attempt to
protect her face and neck from the animals’ razor sharp teeth. There was no
escape. If she so much as moved, they’d rip her to shreds.
Rough hands seized her, jerking
her up out of her hiding place amidst a flurry of pine branches, dirt, and
dried leaves. She tried to scream, but no sound came from her ravaged throat.
Julie has been writing her
entire life, but it wasn’t until November of 2012 that she burst onto the
erotic romance scene with her sizzling hot first novel, Loving Sarah, followed
by its sequel, Owning Sarah, ten months later. Her third novel, Dark
Warrior, set in 14th-century England, is her first historical
romance.
Julie lives in a suburb of
Atlanta, Georgia. Now retired after a 25-year dream career, first as a
children’s librarian then a professional storyteller and puppeteer, she has
time to devote to her new love, writing erotic romance, the steamier the
better, thus following the career path blazed by so many before her—from kiddie
lit to erotica.
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