Malice Striker (25 page)
Authors: Jianne Carlo
Tags: #Romance, #historical romance, #Erotic Romance
6. While both King Kenneth and King Harald ruled around the same time period, there is no record of them ever having met or becoming allies.
7. Hot springs are found in Norway in the Nordvest-Spitsbergen National Park near the ancient volcano, Bockfjorden. Coincidentally, the two hot springs located there are named The Troll and Jötunn Springs. They are the northernmost hot springs on the planet.
8. There is a Dumbarton Castle, which I vaguely used as a basis for Sumbarten Abbey, but all the rest is fictional.
9. Dalriada was a Gaelic overkingdom on the west of Scotland in the late 6
th
and early 7
th
centuries. The area encompassed what in modern times is Argyll and Bute and Lochaber in Scotland and parts of Northern Ireland, most likely County Antrim. However, the kingdom became subject first to the rule of Northumbria, then to the Picts, and ultimately became part of the Kingdom of Alba (Scotland). Thus during the period in which Malice Striker is set, King Kenneth ruled Dalriada, but the region had ceased to be referred to by that name.
~ About the Author ~
Award winning, author Jianne Carlo’s motto is simple: Alpha Me Please.
While strong heroines, exotic locations, and cultural differences are her forte, she goes weak in the knees and salivates for warriors of any type – rebels, SEAls, Vikings, and bad-ass mercenaries. Send her a man with an attitude and she’ll find the right woman to tame him.
Jianne’s writing career began in 2008, and since then she’s been lucky enough to have over twenty books published. Most of her books are TOP PICKs and several have been nominated for and won awards and prizes:
Nothing makes Jianne’s day more than an email from someone who’s read one of her books. So far, she’s received emails from almost every continent on the planet. Almost…
Find out more about Jianne Carlo here:
Web Site:
www.jiannecarlo.com
Blog:
http://www.jiannecarlo.com/WordPressBlog/
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/jianne.carlo
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/#!/jiannecarlo
Amazon Author Page:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B004D8XOLM
Goodreads:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2508742.Jianne_Carlo
Pinterest:
http://pinterest.com/jiannecarlo/
YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/JianneCarlo
~ Coming Soon ~
Death Blow
Viking Vengeance Book 2
© 2012 Jianne Carlo
Vengeance Hammer
Viking Vengeance Book 3
© 2012 Jianne Carlo
~ Also by Jianne Carlo ~
The Bear and the Bride
Viking Warriors Book 1
Jarl Torsten glimpses Ainslin of Durham, a recent widow with two sons, and immediately covets her for his wife. He outmaneuvers his rival, Ainslin’s neighbor Earl Sigrid, and receives the king’s blessing to marry her.
Ainslin fears Torsten's reaction when he discovers she’s a virgin. How will she explain her maidenhead and twin sons? Will Torsten cast Ainslin and the boys aside when he discovers the truth?
The Dragon Slayer
Viking Warriors Book 2
To save her sister, can Catriona slay the Dragon Slayer?
Ruard, the Viking warrior known as The Dragon Slayer, has no great hopes for the wife he’s to take as the lord of Dunnsmuir Castle, so long as she’s a biddable wife, with all her teeth, who doesn’t drool—a plain, humble woman. He has no use for the flame-haired nymph with breasts as ripe as melons and whose supple hips beckon a man’s hands. Nor for a maiden with a stubborn chin and flashing eyes that speak of naught but trouble.
Catriona hopes for a husband ‘twill be easy to poison. Lord Ulfric holds her sister captive and demands Catriona do his bidding: poison his Viking rival, the man they call the Dragon Slayer. Catriona hopes for a cruel warrior, a man easy to hate, not this Thor god come to life with golden hair, sky blue eyes, and a laughing smile. Her sister’s life depends on it, but how can she slay this Ruard, her new husband, who makes her heart pound with joy?
The Peacemaker
Viking Warriors Book 3
Can the Peacemaker tame a warrior bride?
When Njal the Peacemaker meets his bride-to-be, she’s dressed in breeches, flaunting a crossbow, and covered in boar’s blood. What he needs is a woman skilled with words, a woman with exquisite manners, a cunning woman capable of maneuvering the political intrigue of a king’s court. Not this rough country lass whose skill with a crossbow rivals his.
Bettina has no desire to wed a peacemaker. She needs a Viking warrior who’ll strike fear into the hearts of her enemies, a man of strength who can thwart her step-uncle’s theft of her castle’s treasures. But Nyal the Peacemaker wields words, not weapons—until their wedding night proves he’s also a man of passion. Neither can resist the heat of their coupling, but can a man who values peace be enough for a warrior bride?
The Destroyer
Viking Warriors Book 4
To Viking warrior Magnus, marriage is naught but a contract, a bargain between men for land and title. Lust, love—he scorns such notions as weak and unmanly. But three days before he’s to wed a highland princess, he falls into the maelstrom of a maid’s startled eyes. Their passionate tryst has him rethinking his notions, and he struggles to find a way to keep the beguiling Deidra while honoring the marriage contract he’s arranged with the father of his betrothed.
Deidra cannot take a walk in the forest without finding a wounded dove. Devoted to her menagerie of injured bears, peacocks, and wolves, she vows to disobey her Da when he betroths her to the Norse warrior known as the Destroyer. Until, disguised as a maid, she’s rescued from a would-be rapist by the Destroyer himself. How can any call him ugly or cruel? For he treats her as if she is made of spun glass, and teaches her the magikal pleasures of the flesh.
But Magnus is furious when he learns the woman he’s fallen so deeply for is none other than his betrothed. For there’s nothing he despises more than a deceitful female...except, perhaps, two of them...
The Seducer
Viking Warriors Book 5
How can she trust her heart to a man known as the Seducer?
Elaina's step-uncle, Eógan, has murdered her father and usurped his crown. Desperate to save herself and her younger sisters, Elaina, the concubine's daughter, takes the girls and vanishes from the world. But when she's discovered by the tall, brash Viking known as the Seducer, he's determined to make the unwilling woman his own. Even if it involves blackmail: Elaina's hand for his silence.
Angry at being discovered and desperate to protect her sisters, Elaina agrees to marry Jarvik after he threatens to reveal her identity. She bids him to make haste and slake his lust, but Jarvik will accept naught but Elaina's full passion. Their joining is explosive and magical, but how can Elaina trust a man called the Seducer? And even if he proves as good as his word, will the political maneuvering of rival kings force Jarvik to relinquish his new wife to the very man who wants her dead?
More Historical Romance from Etopia Press
Lord Keeper
by Tarah Scott
Scottish Historical Romance
No man bargains for war when he chooses a bride, but when he steals her from holy ground, he can expect nothing less.
A midnight race for freedom leads Victoria Hockley, the Countess of Lansbury, to a churchyard deep in the Scottish Highlands. But not even hallowed ground can save her from the devil who’s pursued her from England, or from the furious Scot who swears to protect her.
Iain MacPherson swore he was nothing like his father, but his kidnapping of Victoria Hockley shows the same kind of obsessive jealousy that sent his mother to an early grave. Now Iain has hell to pay, and the devil may very well be the noble English lass who has bewitched his very soul…
Submission
by Fiona Vance
Historical Erotic Romance
Lady Juliet De Mar is a confirmed bachelorette and a member of the exclusive London Literary Club, a secret sex club for the more libidinous of the London ton. After taunting her childhood friend and wealthy sea captain, James Wakefield, with the club's bondage games, she finds herself once again longing for him to be something other than he is—a prude with no interest in sex. At least not with her.
Tired of his annual visits that always end in rejection, Juliet decides to kidnap him and bring him to his knees—and to the altar—or end their acquaintance forever. But her plan backfires when she's kidnapped from her carriage and taken to the docks. Blindfolded and shackled, she becomes the property of a notorious pirate, the murderous Captain Black, purchased for his pleasure. When her deepest, erotic fantasies become a dangerous reality, will Juliet be forced into submission? Or will she learn what she needs to know to master James?
Lord Devere’s Ward
by Sue Swift
Regency Romance
His honor or his passion…
Orphaned Kate Scoville is trapped in a tower prison by her scheming uncle, who plans to wed her to his loathsome son to gain control of her fortune. Plucky and resourceful, Lady Kate escapes to London to beg help from her guardian, the elderly Earl of Devere. But once she arrives, Kate is astounded to find that the Earl has died and his son has inherited–and her new guardian cuts a very dashing figure…
Quinn, the present Earl, remembers Kate from his childhood as an awkward child he loved to tease. But his father’s ward has grown into a beautiful young woman, and when she comes to him in need, he finds his thoughts far from honorable. Duty demands he offer his protection, but their attraction is irresistible, and the temptation of the dark-haired beauty may be too much for even an honorable man to resist…
Table of Contents
