Han at his most charming was impossible to refuse. Rather than try to hold him at arm’s length, in anticipation of their imminent parting, she decided to enjoy his company while she could. She loved him so much and he was right: this was their last Founding Festival together. With the excellent whiskey warming her blood, not to mention the heady glow of Han’s undivided attention, she could hardly resist. Once the races finished, Iliana let Han talk her into more dancing. But it will take more than true love to save them from the laws of the Convocation…Īnd here’s a little snippet from my story, Familiar Winter Magic: As Iliana and Han face being separated forever, they at last find the courage-or desperation-to break the rules and acknowledge their deeper feelings for each other. And Han… despite being tested by the oracle daily, he is still uncategorized. As a familiar, Iliana is facing her assignment to a life of servitude to a wizard, very soon. It’s holiday time at Convocation Academy, but best friends Han and Iliana are finding it hard to celebrate. The world and everything in it might be utterly foreign to him, but that won’t stop Piers from helping to complete a vital mission for Athena and protect Sophie, a French teacher from Connecticut who’s suddenly knee-deep in inexplicable phenomena, danger, and henchmen after an Olympian treasure that should never have ended up in her hands-or remained on Earth after the Greek gods abandoned it.Ī novella-length expansion of a stand-alone short story in which a cursed mage-king from a frozen kingdom is obligated to marry a woman of high-ranking nobility but meets his soulmate in a lowly scribe.

The Kingmaker Chronicles meets modern-day New York City! Piers, an exiled warrior from Thalyria, finds himself in the Big Apple just before the holidays. Forbidden to fall in love, Winter cares only about her oaths… until she meets the devilish prince of the underworld. The only thing standing between them and total annihilation is Winter, a warrior bred to save them from extinction. Here’s the official (still in progress) blurb:Ī midwinter holiday fantasy romance anthology…įrom Darynda Jones, a standalone novella set in a world where vampyres are hunted for sport.

Dark wizard by jeffe kennedy