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Rainbow Snippet May 21-22

5/21/2016

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Happy Saturday! I hope you're enjoying your weekend, and thanks for stopping by to read this week's Rainbow Snippet. The Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook asks its members to share six sentence snippets from their work each weekend. Check out the group's Facebook page to read all the snippets and add lots of great books to your tbr.

This week's snippet is from The Scholar's Heart again. The Scholar's Heart will be out on May 30th so we're getting close now! In this week's snippet, Tristan has just told Etan that he has to marry to fulfill a promise he made to his father who is dying, but Etan is still hopeful that the two of them can be together.
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​Etan worked himself up to suggest that perhaps the two of them could wed. Not right away, but they could make an agreement and use a betrothal period to see if they would suit. Etan knew they would, but he was already thinking of ways to convince Tristan and Tristan’s father, if necessary. Etan’s own father would be difficult, he was sure—as a duke, his father would want Etan to make a more advantageous marriage to a lady of noble birth—but he could deal with Father later. 

​But all those thoughts—all the hope that came with them—screeched to a halt when Tristan spoke. “I’m to marry a daughter of a friend of Father’s, Dariela. They think it will be good for the business.”

You can preorder The Scholar's Heart at Dreamspinner Press.

Thanks for reading!
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Addison Albright link
5/21/2016 07:34:40 pm

Noooooo! Don't do it, Tristan!

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Antonia Aquilante
5/22/2016 03:33:26 pm

You just want to scream it at him, don't you?

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Lila Leigh Hunter link
5/21/2016 08:20:11 pm

Such a lovely scene.

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Antonia Aquilante
5/22/2016 03:32:43 pm

Thank you, Lila!

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Jana Denardo
5/21/2016 08:23:50 pm

Poor guys

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Antonia Aquilante
5/22/2016 03:32:10 pm

Yep. It hurt me so much to write this. Thanks for reading.

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K.S. Trenten
5/22/2016 12:51:28 am

Tristan is good at coming up with heart stopping lines that whack poor Etan right at the end of a snippet, isn't he? (rueful grin)

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Antonia Aquilante
5/22/2016 03:31:39 pm

He is, though he doesn't quite realize it. Thanks for reading!

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P. T. Wyant link
5/22/2016 09:26:17 am

I can just imagine Etan's heartbreak. And I wonder why Tristan doesn't refuse?

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Antonia Aquilante
5/22/2016 03:30:58 pm

It killed me to write this. Tristan has his reasons. Whether they're good reasons or not remains to be seen...

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AM Leibowitz link
5/22/2016 01:42:23 pm

Oh, poor Etan! Tristan needs to find a less blunt way to say things, though. :P

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Antonia Aquilante
5/22/2016 03:29:25 pm

He really, really does. Thanks for reading!

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