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Rainbow Snippet September 8-9

9/8/2018

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It's weekend, and time for more Rainbow Snippets. 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. You'll find all sorts of books with the common thread that the main character identifies as LGBTQ+.

A Dance of Water and Air will be out in about a month, so I'm sharing some snippets from it in the lead up to release day.  This is the first book in a fantasy romance duology that isn't connected to my Tournai series. It's the story of Edmund, a prince who must leave his kingdom to marry the queen of a neighboring kingdom to seal a necessary alliance, and Arden, the queen's brother. They become friends and then fall in love, which is a problem considering whom Edmund is supposed to marry. Then someone tries to kill the queen, and Edmund is blamed. Arden saves him, and while on the run, they have to figure out how to keep their kingdoms out of war and somehow be together. Edmund is cis and demisexual; Arden is trans and bi. The fantasy story carries over to the second book (expected to be published in March 2019), but Edmund and Arden get their HEA in this book. Today's snippet picks up not long after the last with Edmund's reaction to what his father told him. (Peregrine is his private secretary and friend.)
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Edmund wasn’t stupid or naive; he knew the best way to seal an alliance such as this one was with a marriage and a child. But, somehow, he hadn’t consciously thought about it. Perhaps he hadn’t wanted to because if he’d thought about it, he’d have to accept that the marriage would be his.

“Are you all right?” Peregrine hovered for a moment before sitting beside Edmund on the couch.
“I’ll have to be, won’t I?”

I hope to have a final cover to share with you soon. Thanks for reading today! I'm off to work on copy edits...
8 Comments
Darla m Sands link
9/8/2018 08:47:45 am

Nice snippet! Best wishes on all your endeavors, my dear. Thank you for sharing. And Happy Writing!

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K. S. Trenten link
9/8/2018 12:06:36 pm

Poor Edmund...

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AM Leibowitz link
9/8/2018 02:22:01 pm

The story sounds really interesting. Nice snippet here.

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Charley Descoteaux link
9/8/2018 10:43:08 pm

This sounds like a great story! Hope your edits are going well!

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P.T. Wyant link
9/9/2018 07:15:33 pm

Seems he's recovering from the shock from last week's snippet!

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Addison Albright link
9/14/2018 09:36:29 am

This looks like an intriguing saga! Edmund has quite the journey ahead of him. ♡

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Jana Denardo
9/14/2018 08:35:55 pm

Poor Edmund

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Sharita Lira
9/15/2018 05:17:59 am

Wonderful excerpt!

The book sounds great

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