Viking
Claim
The
MacLomain Series
Viking
Ancestors
Book
2
Sky
Purington
Genre:
Time-travel Fantasy Romance
Date
of Publication: April 4, 2015
ASIN:
B00RQYLOFS
Number
of pages: 240
Word
Count: 82,500
Cover
Artist: Tamra Westberry
Book
Description:
Veronica
tries to cope with losing her sister but is drawn to everything that
seemingly took Megan away. A magical stone. Rune staves. A Viking
king. The far distant past. It all seems too impossible to believe.
Until she slides down a snow swept hill near Maine's, Raven's Nest
cliffs straight into a reality she never could have imagined.
Of
dragon blood and brother to the king, Raknar Sigdir 'the hunter' is
determined to welcome any woman from the future if it means he can
conquer anew for his people. For those he cares about most. However,
Veronica, the irresistible woman thrust back in time, soon has his
mind less on loot and more on all the things he forgot about himself.
Honor.
Decency. Pride. The ability to love.
A
pact with the seers hangs in the balance when a ninth century Viking
gives in to his heart to protect a modern day woman from a sworn,
powerful enemy...his former wife. Rash actions mean an uncertain
outcome. A new fate unfolds. An ultimatum is given. A claim must be
made. Now all that lies ahead is a challenge that might very well
mean the loss of an unparalleled passion found across time.
Excerpt
Raknar
was heading in her direction.
Though
tempted to take a healthy swig from her skin, she didn’t. Instead,
Veronica stood up straighter and waited for him to approach. Believe
it or not, she’d never seen him look quite as intent as he did at
this moment. As if the devil was coming for her soul but he’d get
there faster. Purposeful, focused, he strode up to her. Before she
could say a word, he yanked her against him.
Not
a kiss.
Not
quite.
But
so very close.
Eyes
nearly shut; his mouth hovered centimeters from hers, his hot breath
a whisper over her lips. It was as if they were reliving that moment
when he first pulled her down onto the Drakkar longship. Save now
they were far closer, unparalleled need pulsating and palpable
between them, like a living, breathing thing.
“Raknar,”
she whispered before she could stop herself.
Her
eyes slid shut. His lips came closer, hovered, rested against hers
but didn’t move. Nothing existed but the feel of him against her. A
renewed fire, a blatant want that had been there since the moment
they first laid eyes on one another.
A
shiver raced through her.
Lightning
fast, he dug one hand into her hair and the other around the side of
her neck. Still they didn’t move. Lips close. Breath mingling. Heat
didn’t just flare but roared between
them,
an untouchable element made to mock, to accentuate the place both
fought but needed so very much.
Somehow
they were better at this. Wanting but not taking. Needing but
avoiding. Pushing but not going all the way. Yet they had that in
common. An unwillingness to scale the walls they’d erected.
His
lips moved away and his cheek pressed against hers, his whisper close
to her ear. “Come. Dance with me, woman.”
In
any century.
Raknar
gave her no chance to respond before they moved closer to the fire
and she was in his arms, her body swaying slowly against his.
Veronica dropped the skin of mead, not interested in her drink as she
floated, lost. Just like she’d been that first night. Gone within
his arms.
Gone
within him.
Though
it only felt like moments, the night drifted away. The planet turned.
The stars moved. Vikings laughed, danced, partied, sang, but never
once did Raknar let her go. They moved, touched, but never kissed.
His hands drifted over her body not lewdly but worshiping, as though
he memorized her every curve, every line that made up her form.
About
the Author:
Sky
Purington is the best-selling author of fifteen novels and several
novellas. A New Englander born and bred, Sky was raised hearing
stories of folklore, myth and legend. When combined with a love for
nature, romance and time-travel, elements from the stories of her
youth found release in her books.
Purington
loves to hear from readers and can be contacted at
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I enjoyed the excerpt.
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