Highland Storms (41 page)
Authors: Christina Courtenay
Tags: #Romance, #General, #Historical, #Fiction
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And what is that?’ She drew in a sharp breath as he found a sensitive spot which had her melting against him.
‘
You haven’t told me if you love me in return. Is this to be a one-sided marriage? I can live with that, because I’m not letting you go no matter what, but I’d much prefer an equal partnership in every way.’
He kissed her eyelids, her nose, her cheek, the corner of her mouth, tantalising her, but not giving her enough. She made an impatient noise, turning her lips up to his, but he just shook his head. ‘No more, not until you tell me what I want to hear. It’s only fair, I’ve bared my soul to you. Or are you as cruel as you are beautiful?’
‘
Very well, I’ll confess – I love you too. Have loved you, probably from the moment I first set eyes on you. You’re gorgeous and irresistible and you know it. There, happy now?’
He grinned, looking satisfied in a very male sort of way. ‘It’ll do for a start. But when I’m through with you, I’m expecting to hear a lot more of your confession.’
He finally kissed her properly again, the way she craved, and she knew he was right. She hadn’t told him the half of it – that she simply couldn’t live without him and when he touched her, she’d do anything he asked. Anything at all.
But she had a sneaking suspicion he’d soon know anyway. There was no need for words.
About the Author
Christina lives in London and is married with two children. Although born in England she has a Swedish mother and was brought up in Sweden. In her teens, the family moved to Japan where she had the opportunity to travel extensively in the Far East.
Christina is an prize winning author,
Highland Storms
is her third novel and recently won the 2012 Best Historical Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists’ Association. Christina’s debut,
Trade Winds
was short listed for the Historical Novel of the Year in 2011 and her second novel,
The Scarlet Kimono
won the 2011 Big Red Reads Best Historical Fiction Award.
More Choc Lit
From Christina Courtenay
Trade Winds
(prequel to Highland Storms)
Short listed for the Romantic Novelists’
Association’s Pure Passion Award for Best Historical Fiction 2011
Marriage of convenience – or a love for life?
It’s 1732 in Gothenburg, Sweden, and strong-willed Jess van Sandt knows only too well that it’s a man’s world. She believes she’s being swindled out of her inheritance by her stepfather – and she’s determined to stop it.
When help appears in the unlikely form of handsome Scotsman Killian Kinross, himself disinherited by his grandfather, Jess finds herself both intrigued and infuriated by him. In an attempt to recover her fortune, she proposes a marriage of convenience. Then Killian is offered the chance of a lifetime with the Swedish East India Company’s Expedition and he’s determined that nothing will stand in his way, not even his new bride.
He sets sail on a daring voyage to the Far East, believing he’s put his feelings and past behind him. But the journey doesn’t quite work out as he expects …
Find out more and purchase in the Kindle store:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trade-Winds-ebook/dp/B00457XELG
The Scarlet Kimono
Abducted by a Samurai warlord in 17th-century Japan – what happens when fear turns to love
?
England, 1611, and young Hannah Marston envies her brother’s adventurous life. But when she stows away on his merchant ship, her powers of endurance are stretched to their limit. Then they reach Japan and all her suffering seems worthwhile – until she is abducted by Taro Kumashiro’s warriors.
In the far north of the country, warlord Kumashiro is waiting to see the girl who he has been warned about by a seer. When at last they meet, it’s a clash of cultures and wills, but they’re also fighting an instant attraction to each other.
With her brother desperate to find her and the jealous Lady Reiko equally desperate to kill her, Hannah faces the greatest adventure of her life. And Kumashiro has to choose between love and honour …
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www.choc-lit.com
for more details including the first two chapters and reviews.
Find out more and purchase in the Kindle store:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Scarlet-Kimono-ebook/dp/B004Q9TCXC
Arriving July 2012
The Silent Touch of Shadows
What will it take to put the past to rest?
Professional genealogist Melissa Grantham receives an invitation to visit her family’s ancestral home, Ashleigh Manor. From the moment she arrives, life-like dreams and visions haunt her. The spiritual connection to a medieval young woman and her forbidden lover have her questioning her sanity, but Melissa is determined to solve the mystery.
Jake Precy, owner of a nearby cottage, has disturbing dreams too, but it’s not until he meets Melissa that they begin to make sense. He hires her to research his family’s history, unaware their lives are already entwined. Is the mutual attraction real or the result of ghostly interference?
A haunting love story set partly in the present and partly in fifteenth century Kent.
Arriving July 2012 more details here:
http://www.choc-lit.co.uk/html/the_silent_touch_of_shadows.html
More from Choc Lit
If you’ve enjoyed Christina’s heroes, you’ll enjoy the rest of our selection. Here’s a sample:
Please don’t stop the music by Jane Lovering
Winner of the 2012 Best Romantic Comedy Novel of the Year Award
How much can you hide?
Jemima Hutton is determined to build a successful new life and keep her past a dark secret. Trouble is, her jewellery business looks set to fail – until enigmatic Ben Davies offers to stock her handmade belt buckles in his guitar shop and things start looking up, on all fronts.
But Ben has secrets too. When Jemima finds out he used to be the front man of hugely successful Indie rock band Willow Down, she wants to know more. Why did he desert the band on their US tour? Why is he now a semi-recluse?
And the curiosity is mutual – which means that her own secret is no longer safe ...
Read reviews, search inside and purchase in the Kindle store:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Please-Dont-Stop-Music-ebook/dp/B004LROOFK
Love & Freedom by
Sue Moorcroft
Winner of the Festival of Romance Award for Best Romantic Read 2011.
New start, new love.
That’s what Honor Sontag needs after her life falls apart, leaving her reputation in tatters and her head all over the place. So she flees her native America and heads for Brighton, England.
Honor’s hoping for a much-deserved break and the chance to find the mother who abandoned her as a baby. What she gets is an entanglement with a mysterious male whose family seems to have a finger in every pot in town.