It’s #BookQW and our hero is ‘deep’ in love with a girl who isn’t sure she can commit.
At last, a quote from my upcoming release, Keepers of the Sea Cliffs. Details on that below, but first, more from Chapter 2:
Feeling as if a school of fish swam through his gut, Salm asked, “How about you go away with me?”
Luna eyed him.
Great Orb, she was going to say no. His stomach fish scattered.
“Where?” she asked.
Salm loosened the lines and let the sails go limp so they were drifting in the water. He retrieved his map case, unrolled the local map between them and pointed to several Windborne enclaves up the coast of Scotland or down to England that they might sail to.
Though her shoulder was against his now, she laced her fingers and rubbed her thumb over an old shiny scar on her wrist, half-hidden by a woven rope bracelet that he’d made her. “If we are on a boat, I feel you may spend our time pushing for me to come aboard your parents’ schooner.”
Aye, it might be hard not to. “Then…” He scanned over the map at the inland enclaves. “Bonterra is so big no one will know us. Or Loch Galloway is closer, though smaller.”
“Loch Galloway.” She nodded. “I’ve always wanted to see it. And we can rent a boat and do a day sail there, which should also satisfy you.”
She’d agreed. Salm thrust the map aside and pulled her into his arms—as close as their life jackets allowed—and gave her the kiss he’d wanted to bestow upon her earlier. His energy swirled up, blue and strong and eager. Luna didn’t disappoint him—her silver magic frolicked over. They merged, magic combining in sparks and sizzles—all from his energy.
“Sorry,” he muttered. “I’m the luckiest scallywag alive and can’t wait to have you to myself.”
“We’re fairly to ourselves here,” she whispered back.
They kissed, so deeply Salm’s mind careened into the waves…
Then Luna was shaking herself free. “The shore,” she choked out.
Hoy, the sound he’d thought was their energy was the surf and the gulls crying along the shoals. Salm snatched up the lines and the tiller and steered them seaward once more. Thank the Orb Manta’s craft wasn’t a keelboat. “How did you realize it?” he asked.
Luna laughed. “The bird calls. These are your boating skills that you want me to put my life into?”
“Mine are beyond adequate when I’m nae distracted.” He side-glanced at her. “Maybe for the first month or so we’ll stay at anchor in some hidden cove. Fishing for our dinner and only going to town when we run out of cornmeal and eggs.”
“Sounds delightful.” She scooted along the hull to sit beside him again, her arm around his back. “I’ll get the time off at Fest, but you have to look respectable meeting Papa.”
Salm’s stomach lurched again. “Meet him…are you sure?”
“I-I hope.” She stroked a hand over his jaw. “Maybe shave?”
Well… It was a small price to pay if Luna was agreeing. Salm cupped his hand over hers and kissed her palm. Shivers of her energy tickled at his lips. He grinned. “I can do that.”
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I’ve finished revisions for Salm and Luna’s story, Keepers of the Seas Cliffs, with plans for it be off to the copy editor this week and published before the end of the year. I haven’t set a date, but I will do that and have a cover reveal once I see those edits. See Salm’s cover first and get chapters early by joining my newsletter before November 9th!
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Can’t wait to read more? Salm and Luna appear in Salm’s sister Coral’s novel, Lost Whisperer of the Seas. This story in the Windborne world can be read as a standalone, or after books 1 & 2!
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