The Gladiator’s Bride
by Nhys
Glover
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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?
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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 b*lls if I so much as looked at you the wrong way!’
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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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