Charity
Greves has the gift of healing. So when a wounded bleeding Highlander
materializes out of the air into her kitchen, she does what any rational
free-thinking herbalist under the same circumstances would do--she heals him.
She didn’t expect to be drawn back to the 13th Century where a
dangerous whacked-out witch holds the handsome Highlander captive.
Nor
is she prepared to be drawn so strongly to him that she’ll do whatever it takes
to save him.
~ ~ ~
Yes, her real name is Clover and she happens to be my good bud from my writer's group (NTRWA). We volunteer together and chat and encourage. She always has a smile on her face and she's an awesome author.
HIGHLAND SORCERER
Red Rover Books
ISBN: 147008827
CURIOUS ABOUT THE MAGIC?
She came to him—in his dreams—all creamy skin and
lustrous dark hair. He'd wanted to feel the softness of it when he'd first seen
her, but coming as a beggar in search of a Healer Enchantress's aid, he had
refrained.
He walked in the dreamworld now and she a
manifestation conjured by his mind.
She ran to him, across the moor, mist curling at
her hips, teasing cloudy swirls around her breech-covered legs until she stood
before him, slender hands upon his crisp white shirt.
"Toren," she breathed.
He smiled at the unusual inflection she gave to his
name and since she was but a dream, he indulgently dragged his fingers into her
hair, sighing at the silkiness.
"Toren, I need you to tell me where you are.
I'm going to help you."
What's this? Toren grazed the back of his knuckles
along her cheek. His dream conjured sorceress shouldn't look so troubled.
He wanted her to be pleasant, pliant, a lovely
peaceful image to hold on to, to focus his mind on during the worst of what
Aldreth would surely bring. He didn't know how long he'd be given uninterrupted
sleep and he intended to make the most of it. Toren willed his dream to fall
into order, arranging his thoughts so that the focused lines above Charity's
pert little nose would smooth.
Her lips tightened in exasperation. "Toren,
focus please. Tell me where you are. Where is the dungeon? Within a castle?
Tell me how to free you."
Toren pulled back, holding her at arm's length to
really get a good look at her. Impatience and sharp intelligence stared back
through disarming violet eyes, filled with far too much life to be a
dream-induced manifestation.
"Are ye dream-trailing?"
Inspired
by her love of Louis L'Amour heroes, Clover (yeah, that's her real name),
packed up and moved to Texas where she found a real live Texan of her own.
She's been there ever since where she and Pat (who else would a Clover marry
but a Patrick?) have one beautiful daughter and four not-so-beautiful, but
extremely handsome and always busy boys.
I WAS CURIOUS SO I ASKED…
CLOVER: When a good story grabs me, I will get lost in it well after I’ve finished it. I think about a character and continue worrying over him for a long time. Like a valued friend, I don’t let go of strong characters easily. And when an author brings something to that level of hanging on, I’ll read everything she’s written.
ANGI: What’s the first book you
remember reading?
CLOVER: Wow. Gonna have to go way back for that. I was
reading at a very young age and I do remember reading a book about a porpoise
not having toes, though it does have a nose.
I must have read that silly book at least a thousand times. But it was
Andre Norton’s short story “Sand Sister” that got me hooked on fantasy, and
yeah, I’ve read and loved a good portion of everything she has out there. (That
woman is really prolific.) I get lost in her characters and books every time.
Her books are categorized as fantasy, but to me, she’s the pioneer for
“paranormal romance” before that was labeled as a genre.
ANGI: What’s your favorite “love”
word?
CLOVER: Acceptance. When you truly love someone, you
accept everything about them…all the quirks, drama, even things that annoy you.
And when you feel accepted in turn, barriers come down and you let yourself be
truly open and loved.
ANGI: What’s your favorite fairy
tale?
CLOVER: Sleeping Beauty. I’m not sure why because she
isn’t exactly the kick-butt heroine I’m usually drawn to. It must go back to
childhood memories of watching the Disney version and wanting to be a princess
dancing with birds in the woods. I really have no idea. Time for some self –reflection
maybe.
ANGI: What do you like about the hero
of your book?
CLOVER: Toren is a powerful sorcerer who during the course
of most of the story, can’t access his magic; yet even though he is at the most
vulnerable he’s ever been in his life, he is still willing to endure whatever
he has to in order to protect his family and clan.
ANGI: Where do you read and how
often?
CLOVER: I read every day with several books going at a
time stuffed in different locations like my car, one on the treadmill, and yes,
okay, there’s always one in the bathroom.
ANGI: What sound or noise do you
love?
CLOVER: My family used to houseboat a lot and I loved
napping in the bow’s hull during a long excursion to the sound of the engine
and bounce and slap of water.
ANGI: Fairy Tale or Action Adventure?
CLOVER: I love a good fairy tale, but if I had to choose,
it’s action adventure hand’s down.
ANGI: What is your biggest vice?
CLOVER: Whenever a fantasy-based character says “Okay”. I
know it shouldn’t, but that drives me insane. Unless that hero was born after
1840 when Martin Van Buren (Old Kinderhook) used it in his presidential
campaign, “okay” is off-limits. Time-travelers may use it of course.
ANGI’S GOTTA ASK: Clover, can you explain where any of your fantasy
ideas come from? Or are the characters just there?
CLOVER’S GOTTA ANSWER: It’s usually a fantastical creature in a weird
situation that pops into my head. I’ll want to write about a merman who has to
be raised far from the ocean…or have a hero figure out how to get rid of a
Banshee after he’s heard her scream…or have a heroine travel through time
without just happening to know when the next eclipse will happen or or or… with
fantasy, the only limitation is your imagination.
SATISFY YOUR CURIOSITY
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The Vampire and The Highland Empath
The second
book in the Highland Sorcery novels. Great title, right? *laughing* I never
thought I’d write about a vampire. This story focuses on Toren’s sister, an
empath who got caught in a sleeping enchantment for almost a thousand years.
(Huh, there’s that Sleeping Beauty fixation creeping in.) The venom of a vampire
is the only thing that can wake her, but turns out there are worse evils than
vampires when she awakens in 1941 Scotland with a supernatural Nazi on her
tail.
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