Hot Highlanders and Wild Warriors
Edited by
Delilah Devlin
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BLURB:
Men
devoting themselves to their true love through the art of courtly love is the
ultimate in romance. Hot Highlanders and Wild Warriors is filled with wild
knights and Scottish warriors whose courage on the battlefield is outmatched
only by their ardor for their ladyloves! Readers will unleash their fantasies
of olden days where men wearing heavy armor or thick tartans sent a spirited
young maiden’s (or lonely widow’s) heart fluttering. These bravehearts were
prized for their physical strength and men were judged for their fierce loyalty
and unshakeable honor. Crusaders, highlanders, Normans and Saxons, tournament
fighters, vikings, and hunky Mongols astride stallions in search of adventure
and love all populate the pages of this steamy read.
After the lady of the
keep bars her gates to the barbarian the king commands she wed, the half-Viking
knight scales the walls of her heart
“Wicked” by Susannah
Chapin
The strong-willed
daughter of a Scottish Laird learns it isn’t her surrender her father’s most
powerful but wounded warrior craves
“The Keeper of the
Keys” by Axa Lee
A Briton queen learns
to lay aside the household keys of her responsibilities and ask her Saxon
warlord husband for what she craves
“The Maiden’s Kiss”
by Layla Chase
A Viking warrior
tempts fate and his own control when an Icelandic maiden asks to be tutored in
the art of kissing
“My Loveliest Vision”
by Renee Luke
Despite a daunting
affliction, the lady of the keep will protect her father’s holdings from a
resolute knight come to claim what he was promised
“The Invasion of
Nefyn” by Lizzie Ashworth
A Briton woman risks
rape and death at the hands of invading Saxons in hopes of a visit from her
warrior husband
“The Promise of
Memory” by Regina Kammer
A Roman slave finds
freedom in fantasies of a knight in the imperial guard—a warrior who evokes
memories of a long lost love
“On My Honor” by
Beatrix Ellroy
When a wounded knight
is offered sanctuary by a widowed healer, the pleasure she also offers may
strain his honor
“A Hawk in Flight” by
Connie Wilkins
The Lady of
Aragotsotn paid tribute to the Mongol conqueror to save her people, but her
falcon-fierce heart remains undefeated—though it might be won
“To Love a King’s
Man” by Emma Jay
At the Highland Games
of 1589, a young widow risks all for a chance to win the love of a bastard
favored by the king
“The Bodyguard” by
Jacqueline Brocker
As a ninja stalks
through the palace corridors, the daughter of a samurai lord is drawn to her
wounded, pensive bodyguard
“Broken Vows” by Anya
Richards
A marriage of
convenience leads to most inconvenient desires and a threat to one knight’s
immortal soul
“Poetry and Amber” by
Axa Lee
A mighty passion
ignites along the Volga River between a Celtic witch and the Rus king to whom
she’s been traded
“The Squire” by Cela
Winter
While traveling in
France, a knight’s secretive new squire makes him question everything he knows
about himself
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From “A Falcon in Flight” by Connie
Wilkins:
When word of
defeat came from Georgia’s capital Father Kristopor searched Ardzvik out on the
mountainside where she hunted with her falcon Zepyur. She knew, seeing him from
far above, what his mission must be, and cursed fate for robbing her of the
longed-for solace she reserved for such fine, cloudless days, when the blue sky
went on above her forever and Zepyur soared high and free with no likely prey
in sight. At least the priest had not discovered her in the midst of what he
would surely consider sin.
“Now is the
time,” he called, and then, when he was closer, “Send at once to the Mongol
general! Say that the Province of Aragatsotn in Armenia has long been a vassal
of Georgia, so it is only right that its people offer fealty to Georgia’s new
rulers. I will bear the document myself. The Mongols are quick enough to sack
churches, but I have heard that they retain some degree of respect for holy men
of any faith.”
“Surrender
without a battle.” The words, bitter on Ardzvik’s tongue, burned even more in
her heart.
“Without
blood! Surely they would rather have the wine of our vineyards and grain of our
fields than the lifeblood of those who tend them. Dead men cannot be taxed.”
So it was
done. Ardzvik Zakaria, Lady of Aragatsotn, signed above the seal presented to
her father’s father in Tbilisi by the legendary Queen Tamar of Georgia.
As soon as
the priest rode his mule northward Ardzvik retrieved her falcon from the mews
and rode again high onto the mountain. Zepyur was still as swift and graceful,
the sky as blue, but now the Lady of Aragatsotn could not shed her duty, her
constraints, and be pure flesh and spirit. Lying back on tufted mountain grass
she envisioned, as she had so often, the airborne mating dance of the wild
falcon pair who had produced her own sleek hunter, but she could not rid her
mind of earth-bound turmoil.
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EDITOR Bio and Links:
Delilah
Devlin is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of erotica and
erotic romance. She has published over a hundred thirty erotic stories in
multiple genres and lengths, and is published by Atria/Strebor, Avon, Berkley,
Black Lace, Cleis Press, Ellora’s Cave, Harlequin Spice, HarperCollins:
Mischief, Kensington, Montlake, Running Press, and Samhain Publishing. In May
2014, she adds Grand Central to her list of publishers when Her Only Desire
releases!
Her short
stories have appeared in multiple Cleis Press collections, including Lesbian
Cowboys, Girl Crush, Fairy Tale Lust, Lesbian Lust, Passion, Lesbian Cops,
Dream Lover, Carnal Machines, Best Erotic Romance (2012), Suite Encounters,
Girl Fever, Girls Who Score, Duty and Desire and Best Lesbian Romance of 2013.
For Cleis Press, she edited 2011’s Girls Who Bite, and 2012’s She Shifters and
Cowboy Lust. In 2013, she added Smokin’ Hot Firemen and High Octane Heroes.
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