Excerpt!
“You’re hurt,” she told him, shaking her head. “I’m here to tend to my patient.”
“But the dark one—”
“Is dead,” she promised gently. “It stumbled from the woods and dropped dead at the edge of the forest, right next to the keep.”
“No,” he rasped urgently. “There were two. I—I tracked an adult…and a fledgling.”
Heaven have mercy.
Xia pulled back and immediately glanced around her, her breathing picking up speed as well. “Which—er—” She veered her gaze back to Theron. “Just out of curiosity, but which one did you kill?”
“The smaller one,” he said, wincing in apology. “The larger one is still somewhere out here. With us.”
Great. That was all she needed to hear right now.
“You need to go, now,” Theron ordered urgently. “Xia, run!”
She didn’t move, partially because her limbs were literally frozen with fear and partially because she wasn’t leaving him. “Not without you,” she promised.
He swore loudly. “Dammit, woman. I’m pinned here and can’t get out. You need to save yourself.”
Her back straightened stubbornly. “I’m the master healer,” she argued righteously. “And I do not leave my patients behind. Especially when I’m in love with them!”
Theron, the Eradicator, has one job: to protect the people of Starcast by killing the deadly creatures that attack them. That’s it.
Being an Eradicator comes with a heavy price, however, for he’s strictly prohibited from having any kind of personal contact with the villagers.
But one night, he sneaks into the town’s harvest festival, anyway, and meets the lovely, young healer’s apprentice.
As Theron grows close to her, it becomes harder to tell what’s more dangerous: risking a fatal injury while battling dark ones or risking fatal punishment by beginning a secret dalliance with a forbidden girl.
In either case, doom seems to be the only outcome, and tension mounts as love and danger blur across the reach of this fantastical, seaside landscape.
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=Linda writes romance fiction from YA to adult, contemporary to fantasy. Most Kage stories lean more toward the lighter, sillier side with a couple meaningful moments thrown in. Focuses more on entertainment value and emotional impact.
Published since 2010. Went through a 2-year writing correspondence class in children's literature from The Institute of Children's Literature. Then graduated with a Bachelors in Arts, English with an emphasis in creative fiction writing from Pittsburg State University.
Now she lives with hubby, two daughters, cat Holly, and nine cuckoo clocks in southeast Kansas, USA. Farm girl. Parents were dairy farmers. Was youngest of eight. Big family. Day job as a cataloging library assistant.
Harry Potter House Gryffindor, Patronus White Stallion, character match Hagrid. Supernatural Team Dean. Game of Thrones Team Jon Snow and Tyrion Lannister. The Walking Dead Team Daryl. Outlander Team Jamie Fraser. Teen Wolf Team Stiles. Avenger Team Thor...or Hulk (can't decide). Justice League Team Flash. Arrow Team Stephen Amell. Stranger Things obsessed. Heard Laurel, not Yanny.
Started out reading with the Baby-Sitters Club. Then moved to Sandra Brown, Linda Howard, Julie Garwood, and LaVyrle Spencer in high school. Now all over the place with her romance reading tastes.
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