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Rainbow Snippet April 30-May 1

4/30/2016

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How is it May this weekend already? Time is flying by! And since it's weekend, I have another Rainbow Snippet for you. ​The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to post six sentence snippets of their work each weekend. Visit the group page on Facebook to read all the wonderful snippets, and add some books to your tbr pile!

The Scholar's Heart, the third book in the Chronicles of Tournai series, will be out on May 30th (yay!), and I'll start sharing snippets from it next weekend. Each of the books in the series stands alone, but the main characters of The Scholar's Heart, Etan and Tristan, have appeared in both of the previous books. So I thought it might be fun to share snippets over the next few weeks involving Etan and Tristan in the previous books to introduce you to them before I dive into snippets from The Scholar's Heart itself.

This week's snippet is from The Artist's Masquerade. It's the scene where I made Etan very sad, which of course will be fixed (eventually) in The Scholar's Heart, because if I can promise you anything, it's a happily ever after.
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Cathal strode into the office he shared with Etan and pulled up short, shocked from his own thoughts by the utter misery on his brother’s face. 

“Etan?” 

Etan raised his gaze to Cathal’s, and Cathal barely stifled a gasp at the pain and defeat he saw in his brother’s eyes. When he spoke, his voice was dull. “Cathal.” 

“What is it? What’s happened?” And who would he have to hurt to make Etan happy again? Because he would, for his younger brother, he would. 

​“Tristan is marrying.” A spasm of pain rippled over Etan’s face before he looked down at the desk again.

Have a great weekend, everyone! And check back here on Monday for the cover reveal of The Scholar's Heart.
20 Comments
Heloise West
4/30/2016 11:05:13 am

:(

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Antonia Aquilante
5/3/2016 07:39:45 pm

Yes, but I'll make it better.

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Rebecca Cohen
4/30/2016 12:13:05 pm

I'm sure you'll make it all better :)

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Antonia Aquilante
5/3/2016 07:40:26 pm

Definitely. I can't leave it like this!

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Addison Albright link
4/30/2016 12:18:41 pm

Heartbreaking scene. It's good to see he'll get his HEA in the end! :-)

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Antonia Aquilante
5/3/2016 07:41:34 pm

It kind of killed me to write it, but it will all work out for Etan in the end.

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K.S. Trenten
4/30/2016 07:49:41 pm

I've suddenly got this image of Cathal running up the hill, towards Tristan's wedding, over and over again, like Lancelot in 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail', only to start slaughtering the wedding party, when he gets there. :) I know, probably not what you had planned, but the imagery just popped in my head. :)

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Antonia Aquilante
5/3/2016 07:42:01 pm

LOL!

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Jana Denardo
4/30/2016 09:26:44 pm

Aw poor Etan

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Antonia Aquilante
5/3/2016 07:43:12 pm

I hated to hurt him, but he'll get his HEA.

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Alexa Milne
5/1/2016 04:44:30 am

Aww - glad there's a HEA later

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Antonia Aquilante
5/3/2016 07:43:51 pm

Absolutely. I couldn't leave him like this!

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Louise Lyons
5/1/2016 06:42:03 am

Aww, so sad :(

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Antonia Aquilante
5/3/2016 07:44:53 pm

It hurt me to do it, but it'll get better for Etan.

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Amy Rae Durreson
5/2/2016 02:57:35 am

Aww. Poor honey. I love Cathal's defensiveness of his brother too.

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Antonia Aquilante
5/3/2016 07:45:52 pm

Thank you! I really wanted that connection between them here.

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Dianne Hartsock link
5/4/2016 10:56:36 pm

Poor Etan! I can feel his misery. :(

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Antonia Aquilante
5/6/2016 07:30:12 pm

It hurt me to write it. But it'll get better for Etan.

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P. T. Wyant link
5/6/2016 09:59:17 am

You show his emotion so well -- my heart is breaking for him.

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Antonia Aquilante
5/6/2016 07:30:39 pm

Thank you!

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