Taken by a Highland Laird
The MacLomain Series
A New Beginning
Book 2
Sky Purington
Genre: Time Travel Fantasy Romance
Date of Publication: December 18th, 2017
ASIN: B075R825PZ
Number of pages: 280
Word Count: 87,500
Cover Artist: Tara West
Book Description:
The last thing Lindsay expects when she visits Milly’s home in New Hampshire is to be thrust back in time to thirteenth century Scotland days before the Battle of Stirling Bridge. Worse yet, captured by the English. Using her wits and ability to wrap men around her little finger, she survives long enough to be rescued by a band of Scotsmen. One of them, a rigid Highland chieftain determined to protect his country, rarely lets her out of his sight. A man, as it turns out, who is immune to her allure…or so it seems.
From the moment Clan MacLomain decides to save Scotland’s history, Laird Conall Hamilton knows he needs to be part of it. What he does not foresee is a beautiful twenty-first century actress crossing his path. More so, that they end up caught in an obligatory kiss that sparks an infamous battle. A kiss, as Fate would have it, that takes them on an adventure through time to both the Action at Earnside Skirmish and the Action at Happrew.
Joining first Sir William Wallace then King Robert the Bruce, Conall and Lindsay end up on a journey that will leave neither unscathed. Though determined to keep each other at arm’s length, desire simmers, reeling them ever closer. Inner demons are faced as they navigate a powerful connection neither saw coming. A bond so intense and passionate that it might very well help them defeat the enemy and save a nation.
Excerpt
#2 (Spicy)
“I’ll be,”
Lindsay murmured as she continued to eye him with a look he knew all too well
by now. She thought she had found a way to get closer to him. Therefore, a
means to eventually get him to do anything she wanted.
Almost as if she
followed his thoughts, she cocked her head. “You don’t like that do you,
Conall?” Her lashes dropped a scant fraction as she seemed to see right through
him. “You don’t want to get too personal because it might allow me too close.”
The corner of her lip curled up slowly, and her knowing eyes sparkled with
newfound power. “Why do I get the feeling it’s already too late?”
He frowned. “Too
late for what?”
“Too late for
you to stop wanting me,” she whispered, her large sultry eyes shimmering in the
torchlight. “Because you do, don’t you, Conall?”
Aye. He did.
With everything in him.
Like always, it
was nearly impossible to pull his eyes from hers, but he did. As it was every
time, he had to fight to keep from looking at her again. Gazing at the lass
muddled his mind, and right now it needed to stay level. More than that, he had
to remember she was not the lass for him.
He would never
survive her.
She inhaled
deeply and murmured to herself. Words he could hear with his superior hearing.
Words that caught him off-guard. Against his better judgement, he looked her
way again. “What do you mean you dinnae understand why I’m different than the
rest?” He frowned. “Explain, lass.”
“Oh, I think you
know.” She stood, her movements fluid and seductive as she sauntered his way.
“I think you very well know.”
Though the dress
given to her at the camp was too big for her, it didn’t hide her full breasts
or her perfect hourglass figure. She was built for a man’s hands and hell if
she didn’t know it as she sat beside him, close enough that their shoulders
touched. Her slender hand slid onto his thigh dangerously close to his eager
cock. If he didn’t know better, he would say she knew exactly what state she
had him in.
“You are wearing
the ring again,” he managed, irritated by his thickening voice, by the stark
lust she provoked.
“I am,” she
concurred as her hand slid a fraction closer to his manhood. “Do you know why?”
“Aye.” Conall
put his hand over hers and shook his head. “But we will find another way out of
here.”
Any way but how
they got here, to begin with.
“You enjoyed
that kiss, Laird Hamilton,” she murmured, her voice soft and seductive. “Don’t
tell me you didn’t.”
He more than
enjoyed it. But it was a kiss that could not be repeated. Yet as she intended,
his eyes drifted to her lips. When they did, the tip of her dainty pink tongue
slipped out and ran along her plush lower lip. He didn’t realize he had
clenched his hand around hers until she jerked ever-so-slightly. When she did,
he pulled away only for her to try to stop him which, as it turned out,
conveniently put her hand right alongside his erection.
He clenched his
jaw and remained very still as her eyes dropped and her breath caught.
If he had any
willpower left, he would push her hand away. He would remind her that unlike
most men, he did not want her. Yet she was already blatantly admiring proof
that said otherwise. A maneuver he knew she did on purpose to reel him ever
closer. Regrettably, it was working because he had not moved an inch.
He tried to
focus on the hiss of the torches, even the chill of the stone at his back, but
all he could see was her hand. How small and delicate it appeared beside the
heavy ridge of his cock straining against his breeches.
“Well, well,”
she said softly, her voice raspy, sensual and knowing. “It seems you’re stiff
in more ways than one, Laird Hamilton.”
About the Author:
Sky Purington is the bestselling author of over thirty novels and several novellas. A New Englander born and bred who recently moved to Virginia, 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.
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Book Description sound great, loved the excerpt.
ReplyDeleteThank you Shirley! :-)
DeleteThanks so much for featuring Taken by a Highland Laird! :-)
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