Happy Valentine’s Day!
UNCOVERING CAMELOT
Author: Susanne Marie Knight
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy
Romance
Available electronically at
Amazon.com.
Buy link:
http://www.amazon.com/Uncovering-Camelot-ebook/dp/B005GKYCIU
BLURB:
A VACATION RUINED--Heather
Woods suddenly learns her boyfriend, Connor, cancelled their summer plans.
Determined to forget about him, she visits her flaky godmother, Nerissa,
instead, for an impromptu vacation. Nerissa insists that Heather has a healing
gift, something Heather doesn’t believe. But when she experiences visions...
hallucinations... or whatever her jaunts back to Camelot are, she fears for her
sanity. Meeting a man that might actually be Merlin the magician, and his very
attractive nephew, Matthew, convince Heather that she’s in the middle of a
strange, metaphysical phenomenon.
A VACATION CHANGED--Judge Matthew Limner also finds
his vacation plans changed. He receives a call from a long-lost Uncle Mallory--so
long-lost that he hadn’t even known Mallory existed. Mallory flies in from
London, and expects to go sightseeing with Matthew. Resigned, Matthew plays the
host. First stop: the Stonehenge Memorial in southern Washington. A chance
encounter--or is it?--with Nerissa and Heather convince Matthew that something
much more than coincidence is happening in this tiny corner of the world.
SCENE SET-UP:
After just experiencing a
vision featuring Merlin the Magician, Heather Woods can't believe her eyes when
a man resembling Merlin introduces himself to her and her godmother, Nerissa.
He calls himself Mallory Limner, and also introduces his nephew, Matthew.
EXCERPT:
Nerissa
clapped her hands, which caused her many bracelets to jingle from the movement.
“I have an excellent idea. Why don’t we explore the monument with our new
friends?”
Heather
stared at her godmother. Friends?
“I’m
certain Mallory can give us his prospective on the true Stonehenge,” Nerissa
continued.
You can’t possibly be serious.
But
Nerissa was serious. She kept fondling her beaded necklace, along with
wetting her lips and darting glances at Mallory. Preening gestures.
Heather
sighed. How Nerissa could be sexually interested in a man as old as Mallory was
beyond her. Different strokes for different folks, obviously. But if this was
important to her godmother, then she really should acquiesce.
She
shrugged. “Sure. We’ll explore. Why not?”
Mallory
didn’t waste time. He extended his arm to Nerissa. “Come, my lady. Let us
peruse these sacred stones while I regale you with tales of the Druids.”
Off
the two of them went, leaving Heather in the dust. But that was just as well.
Being in that man’s company set her teeth on edge. Since she usually was so
easygoing, it was hard to reconcile her abnormal behavior.
She
flipped back hair. Perhaps it was she who should be sent to the time-out
corner.
Turning
to go back to the lawn chair and her sketchpad, she was stopped by a touch on
her arm.
“I
believe the idea is that you and I pair up as well.” Matthew Limner gazed down
at her, looking less green than he had before. “Just for the duration of this
visit, of course. Unless you have other plans?”
She
flushed. She’d forgotten about him. Although on any other day, that would’ve
been extremely difficult to do. Square-jawed, dark wavy hair, and peek-a-boo
dimples, he was a very handsome man. From her height, she had an excellent view
of his prominent Adam’s apple.
Her
preferences in men were California types, though. Athletic, blond,
devil-may-care. Like Connor, and that man she’d met yesterday--one of Nerissa’s
new clients. A man with shoulder pain--Desmond Redmord. He certainly had been
of the finger-licking-good variety.
If
she’d been interested to taste. Right now, she wasn’t--not tasting any man.
And
Matthew? She looked him up and down. There was something stuffy about him.
Something patronizing. Something that made her stomach churn.
“Look,
I’m not interested in--”
“In
being polite?” He shifted his gaze away from her, and instead, concentrated on
the ring of heavy blocks resting on top of the solid ones.
He
was right. She was being rude. She had no call to take her anger out on him--a
stranger.
“I’m
sorry. Really. This has been quite a bizarre day. Actually it’s been a strange
few days.”
Taking
a technique she used on her students when they got into arguments, she took a
deep breath, released it, then held out her hand. “Let’s start over. Hello, I’m
Heather Woods.”
His
gaze flickered over her. Then he smiled briefly, which dimpled his cheeks.
“Nice to meet you, Heather. I’m Matthew. Matthew Limner.” He stressed
his last name.
She
grinned back. “Yeah, sorry. I was an ass about it, wasn’t I?”
He
strolled forward at a leisurely pace, walking around the inside of the concrete
slabs. “I wouldn’t phrase it in those words, Heather.”
Following
alongside him, she walked in the shade. “No, I didn’t think you would.”
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Happy Valentine’s Day!!
Susanne Marie Knight
Read outside the
box: award-winning Romance Writing With A Twist!
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Planet Earth
is a jewel that must be shared!
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