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A demon waiting to die...
An outcast reviled for his discolored skin and
rumors of black magic, Keirlan de Corizi sees no hope for redemption.
Imprisoned beneath the palace that was once his home, the legendary ‘Blue Demon
of Adalucien’ waits for death to finally free him of his curse. But salvation
comes in an unexpected guise.
A woman determined to save him.
Able to cross space and time with a wave of her
hand, Tarquin Secker has spent eternity on a hopeless quest. Drawn by a compulsion
she can’t explain, she risks her apparent immortality to save Keir, and offers
him sanctuary on her home-world, Lyagnius. But Quin has secrets of her own.
When Keir mistakenly unleashes the dormant
alien powers within him and earns exile from Lyagnius, Quin chooses to stand by
him. Can he master his newfound abilities in time to save Quin from the
darkness that seeks to possess her?
Excerpt:
Amidst the noise and flashes, the sound
of movement drew his gaze aside. Quin had stepped out onto the adjoining
balcony to lean nonchalantly on the ledge and admire the show. The light
display forgotten, Keir immersed himself deeper in the shadows and watched her
instead. Like his first sight of her in the Adalucien prison cell, it struck
him how small she was, and how different to anyone he had ever known. Quin had
unbound her hair, which now formed a wild red halo around her face. Her formal
robes had been exchanged for a short, black slip that ended mid-thigh, and a
long-sleeved robe of black lace. The gentle curves of her slim figure showed
through the fabric. His eyes strayed to the white skin of her legs, like fine
marble shaped and smoothed. What would it feel like to touch? Cool like stone?
Or warm like velvet, soft as silk?
Unease tightened his muscles, and he
tried to drag his gaze away. A Salusian woman would never expose herself like
that. Never show so much skin and be so uncaring about it.
But
then, Quin is not Salusian. And she does not know I am here. I should not be
looking.
Even as he thought it, even as he
berated himself for it, his gaze drifted back. A smile arched her lips as she
watched the skies, as enchanted as a child. A stronger gust of wind brushed the
hair back from her face and folded the satin cloth of her outfit around her
figure.
So
beautiful…
Sudden elation overwhelmed him,
combined with the heat T’rill had inspired. Desire wrapped tight arms around his
body. The heady mix stole his breath. No.
Shame burned his skin. Quin was his friend, the first he had ever had, and
the only person to show him kindness in more years than he could count. Yet at
that moment he wanted more. For the first time in remembrance, he wanted to
touch and be touched in return. To hold her and have her return his embrace
freely, with more than a friend’s affection. To feel her white skin under his
fingertips. To brush the hair from her face as the breeze did now, and run his
fingers through it.
His thoughts dishonored her gift of
friendship to him.
Book One of the Redemption series and part of the Travellers Universe. A science fiction romance novel previously released by Lyrical Press Inc. 7th May 2012, Keir is a Readers Favorite Contest Awards Finalist 2012, HOD RWA Aspen Gold finalist (3rd place), The Kindle Book Review’s 2013 Best Indie Book Awards semi-finalist, and a 2012 SFR Galaxy Award Best May to December Romance winner.
Bio:
After spending twelve years working as an Analytical
Chemist in a Metals and Minerals laboratory, Pippa Jay is now a stay-at-home
mum who writes scifi and the supernatural. Somewhere along the way a touch of
romance crept into her work and refused to leave. In between torturing her
plethora of characters, she spends the odd free moment playing guitar very
badly, punishing herself with freestyle street dance, and studying the Dark
Side of the Force. Although happily settled in the historical town of Colchester
in the UK with her husband of 21 years and three little monsters, she continues
to roam the rest of the Universe in her head.
Pippa
Jay is a dedicated member of the Science Fiction Romance
Brigade and Broad
Universe, blogging at Spacefreighters Lounge,
Adventures in Scifi,
and Romancing
the Genres. Her works include YA and adult
stories crossing a multitude of subgenres from scifi to the paranormal, often
with romance, and she’s one of eight authors included in a science fiction
romance anthology—Tales from the SFR Brigade. She’s also a double SFR Galaxy Award winner, been a finalist in the
Heart of Denver RWA Aspen Gold Contest (3rd place), the EPIC eBook awards, and the
GCC RWA Silken Sands Star Awards (2nd place).
You can stalk her at her website, or at her blog, but without doubt her favorite place to hang around
and chat is on Twitter as @pippajaygreen.
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Thanks Torie!
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