What is Merlin the Magician
up to nowadays?
UNCOVERING CAMELOT
Author: Susanne
Marie Knight
Genre:
Contemporary Romance with a Fantasy Twist
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Video Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTGkLGFbC5c
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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Hope you enjoy!
Susanne Marie Knight
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award-winning Romance Writing With A Twist!
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