Welcome to Medieval Monday! This time around we post excerpts that fulfill a different requirement each month. For the month of JANUARy/February we must post an excerpt showing the first kiss of the heroine and hero. My guest today is Kim Headlee with her medieval romance Snow in July.
“Would my lord knight grant me a boon that would enable me to fulfill an altogether different vow?” Kendra slid her hands up his chest, reveling in the feel of his taut muscles beneath the tunic’s thin linen.
“Name it, my lady,” Alain said in a husky whisper.
“Please…” She stood on tiptoe to reach around his neck and pull his face to hers, drawing a deep breath. “Please kiss me.”
He lost no time in honoring her request. Their mouths met, tentatively at first, then harder and more ravenously as their mutual hunger found freedom. Their tongues entwined, locked in a dance far more sublime than any pale dream. She felt the void left by her brother’s death beginning, at last, to fill.
So this was why Del had been so insistent that she seek happiness. He knew it would help her heal, God rest his dear soul. She increased the pressure on Alain’s lips, and he answered in kind.
Faint shouts forced them to step apart. Alain looked out the nearest window and hurried to each of the others in turn, muttering in French.
“Is it the outlaws? What do you see?”
“Nothing.” He spat the word as if blaming it for the interruption. “The surviving outlaws must have returned. Does this tower have someplace to hide where they might not think to look?”
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SYNOPSIS
Sir Robert Alain de Bellencombre has been granted what every man wants: a rich English estate in exchange for his valiant service at the Battle of Hastings. To claim this reward, the Norman knight must wed the estate’s Saxon heiress. Most men would leap at such an opportunity, but for Alain, who broke his vow to his dying mother by failing to protect his youngest brother in battle, it means facing more easily broken vows. But when rumors of rampant thievery, dangerous beasts, and sorcery plaguing a neighboring estate reach his ears, nothing will make him shirk duty to king and country when people’s lives stand at risk. He assumes the guise of a squire to scout the land, its problems, and its lady.
Lady Kendra of Edgarburh has been granted what no woman wants: a forced marriage to an enemy who may be kith or kin to the man who murdered her beloved brother. Compounding her anguish is her failure to awaken the miraculous healing gift bequeathed by their late mother in time to save his life. Although with his dying breath, he made her promise to seek happiness above all, Kendra vows that she shall find neither comfort nor love in the arms of a Norman…unless it snows in July.
BOOK TRAILER: http://youtu.be/vFsaD1jCLLU
BUY & TBR LINKS
Worldwide Amazon Kindle link – http://getBook.at/Snow_in_July_by_KIH_Kindle
Worldwide Amazon Paperback link –http://myBook.to/Snow_in_July_by_KIH_paperback
BARNES & NOBLE NOOK – http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/snow-in-july-kim-headlee/1119853202?ean=2940149693818&itm=1&usri=2940149693818
BARNES & NOBLES PAPERBACK – http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/snow-in-july-kim-headlee/1119853202?ean=9780990505501
KOBO – http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/snow-in-july
SMASHWORDS – https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/450831
ITUNES – https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id892162990
GOODREADS – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22398941-snow-in-july
Hope you enjoyed this excerpt! See you next week!
Jenna Jaxon Romance--because passion is timeless. 
Thanks so much, Jenna, for hosting Snow in July again today! 🙂
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Always a pleasure, Kim!
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