Claimed by the Warrior
The Conquered Bride Series
Book 3
By Eliza Knight.
By Eliza Knight.
Releasing 3/31/16
He came to conquer…
A widower, Laird Torsten Mackenzie, has worked long and hard to regain the respect his clan deserved after his older brother turned traitorous. Even in death, Cathal’s crimes remain a mar on Torsten’s conscience. Setting aside his grief, Torsten devotes his life to his people, and to his young, motherless daughter. When a rival clan attacks his lands unprovoked, he’s determined to put them in their place once and for all. Marching on their gates, he’s taken by surprise when Lady MacDonell steps through the opening instead of her wayward husband. Reacting impulsively, Torsten exacts his revenge by whisking her away.
But she laid claim to his heart...
Headstrong and fierce, Éabha MacDonell’s true nature has been buried for six long years in a marriage that fills her with shame, and has kept her tucked in the shadows. But the death of her husband, and being forced from the only home she’s ever known, brings freedom in a way she’d never imagined. Free to rediscover parts of herself she’d thought never to behold again—her love of art, her desire for children. But most of all, the tug at her heart, the warmth of a secret glance and the heat of a passionate embrace.
In the arms of her captor, Éabha’s more liberated than she’s ever been before and Torsten might just have found the one person who can make him whole again.
EXCERPT:
FIRST KISS:
“Is this what ye want,
Lady Éabha? Ye want to kill me?”
Teeth bared, chest rising
and falling in erratic breaths, she glowered at him, but said not a word.
“Killing me will not
solve anything.”
Her arm twitched, the
blade nicking his skin ever so slightly. He could feel a tiny trickle of blood
rolling down his throat.
She wriggled against
him, horror showing on her face at what she’d done, but he held her tight.
Every curve of her pressed against him. He stared at her mouth which had gone
from a fearsome growl to open shock. Lord, but she was a beauty. Everything
he’d ever wanted in a woman, and everything he couldn’t have.
Her eyes dipped just
enough to stare at his mouth. Without thinking, Torsten lowered his lips to
hers. At first it was a soft brush, a simple slide of his lips over her warm,
rage-filled mouth.
But then she dropped
the knife, gripped onto him tight, her body shuddering in a sigh that seemed
filled with surrender.
Torsten deepened the
kiss, claiming her with one, then two, then three swipes of his tongue between
the seam of her lips. Tasting her. Delving inside her delicious mouth. Dining
on the thunder and fire of her nature.
Éabha clung to him,
kissing him back with frantic need. Her fingers curled into his shirt, and he
fisted his hand in her hair. Torsten walked her back to the wall, pressing her
body up against it. Pinning her there, though he allowed her free reign with
her hands.
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About the Author:
Eliza Knight is a USA Today Bestselling and award-winning author of sizzling historical romance and time-travel erotic romance. Under the name E. Knight, she pens riveting historical fiction. She runs the award-winning blog, History Undressed. When not reading, writing and researching, she likes to cuddle up in front of a warm fire with her own knight in shining armor. Visit Eliza at www.elizaknight.com or www.historyundressed.com
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