Since the lady didn’t care, Robbie didn’t feel the slightest bit
embarrassed that he couldn’t dance. She whirled away from him, and he swung her
into his arms. She laughed, and he wished the night could last forever, but far
too soon the lady stumbled and caught hold of his arm. “Should we sit one out,
Milady?”
Breathing heavily, the lady nodded. “I guess I’m more tired than I
thought.”
As Robbie led her back to her retainers, he noticed the grim looks on
their faces. The scarred man had joined the two younger ones who’d been
following them around. Scarface bowed to the lady. “Milady, we have a long ride
back. We truly must leave.”
The lady sighed. "I guess you're right." She turned to Robbie.
“I had a good time. It was fun.”
It was the best day of my life! Please don’t leave! Please say you’ll
come again! “Yes, Milady. It was fun.”
“I truly wish I could stay longer, but we do have a long ride, and it
isn’t fair to keep my men longer,” she said. Robbie cursed her men into the
seven hells. The lady, however, let go of his hand. She kissed him on the
cheek, caressing his face with her soft lips. “Goodbye, Robbie. Remember me,”
she said, then followed the scarred man off into the darkness.
How could she think he’d ever forget her? Robbie touched his cheek,
feeling as if he’d just lost the most precious thing in the world. He hurried
away from the dance floor before anyone could see him crying. He wiped his eyes
as he threaded his way through the now deserted stalls toward Wild Thing.
BLURB:
In a
world where the corrupt church hides the truth about magic, the fate of the
joined kingdom falls on the shoulders of two young people from opposite ends of
the social hierarchy.
Crown
Princess Samantha’s life begins to fall apart when she starts seeing strange
colors around her potential suitors. She fears that she’s going insane--or
worse that she’s defying the Goddess’s will. Robrek is a lowly farmboy with
incredible magical powers. He has been biding his time waiting to get revenge
on those who call him a demon.
Thrown
together by chance, they must overcome their differences to fight their common
enemy Duke Argblutal, who, with dark magic, is slowly poisoning the king’s mind
and turning him against his own daughter.
Time is running out for those chosen by the Goddess to prevent the power
mad duke from usurping the throne and plunging the joined kingdoms into civil
war.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Jamie began writing stories about
the man from Mars when she was six, and she never remembers wanting to be
anything other than a writer. Everyone told her she needed a back up plan, so
she pursued a Ph.D. in American literature, which she received in 1998. She
started teaching writing and literature at Auburn University.
One day in the midst of writing a
piece of literary criticism, she realized she’d put her true passion on the
backburner and neglected her muse. The literary article went into the trash,
and she began the book that was to become The Goddess’s Choice. She is now
releasing an expanded edition of the novel.
Her other novels include The Soul Stone and The Ghost in Exile. In addition, she has published a novella, Demons in the Big Easy, and a collection
of short stories, Blood Cursed and Other
Tales of the Fantastic. Her short fiction has also appeared in the
anthologies--Urban Fantasy and Of Dragons
& Magic: Tales of the Lost Worlds—and in Bards & Sages, The World of Myth, A Writer’s Haven, and
Short-story.me. She claims she writes about the fantastic . . . and the
tortured soul. Her poor characters have hard lives. She lives in Auburn,
Alabama, with her husband and four cats, which (or so she’s been told)
officially makes her a cat lady. She still teaches writing and literature at
Auburn University. She is the mother of a grown son.
Links
Website: http://jamie-marchant.com/
Twitter:
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