MFRW Author Jessi released Wishing For A Highlander, a time-travel historical highlander romance, on February 1, 2014.
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Single-and-pregnant
museum worker Melanie voices an idle wish while examining a Scottish artifact,
that a Highland warrior would sweep her off her feet and help her forget her
cheating ex. The last thing she expects is for her wish to be granted.
Magically transported to the middle of a clan skirmish in the sixteenth-century
Highlands, she comes face to face with her kilted fantasy man.
Tall,
handsome, and heir to his uncle’s lairdship, Darcy Keith should be the most
eligible bachelor in Ackergill. Instead, thanks to a prank played on him in his
teenage years, he is known for being too large under his kilt to ever make a
proper husband. “Big Darcy” runs his deceased father’s windmills and lives
alone at his family manor, believing he will never marry.
But
a strangely dressed woman he rescues from a clan skirmish makes him long for
more. When the woman’s claims of coming to Ackergill by magic reach the laird’s
ears, she is accused of witchcraft. Darcy determines to protect her any way he
can, even if it means binding her to him forever.
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EXCERPT
Size might have its advantages when it came to fighting, but those few boons didn’t compensate for the problems it caused. Being the biggest and the strongest had gotten him into far more trouble than it had gotten him out of. Swallowing his regret for how careless he’d been with her, he sought to determine whom she belonged to, whom, saints forbid, he might owe.
“Whose wife are ye, then? Not a Gunn’s or I wouldna have had to rescue you from one.”
“I’m not married,” the lass said. “And thank you for the rescuing, by the way. I can’t believe I dropped the dirk. Stupid.” She shook her head.
His heart warmed at her thanks. He didn’t hear many kind words from the lasses and would take what he could get, even from a dishonored woman who had caught a bairn out wedlock. Oddly, he didn’t think poorly of her. Whether it was her vexed brow, her guileless, soft mouth, or her vulnerable size, he had not the heart to condemn her.
He didn’t even mind so much that she found him distasteful for being overlarge, although talking with her now, she didn’t seem overly upset to be in his arms. He endeavored to keep her talking, keep her distracted from her disgust.
“You never answered my first question,” he said. “Who are you? And where are you from if ye’re no’ English?”
“Ugh. I don’t know. Is there an answer that won’t get me burned at the stake or locked up in a ward for the hopelessly insane?”
Like most things out of her mouth, that had been a peculiar answer. “You could try the truth,” he offered, slowing his pace since he heard Archie’s voice not far off.
“No,” she said flatly. “I couldn’t. At least not the whole truth. How about we just go with my name, Melanie, and with the honest fact that I’m a long way from home and have no idea how to get back.” Her green eyes pierced his. “I’m afraid you might be stuck with me, Darcy Keith.”
About The Author
Jessi lives with her husband and children in the Seattle area. She’s a passionate reader of all genres of romance, especially anything involving the paranormal. Ghosts, demons, vampires, witches, weres, faeries…you name it, she’ll read it. As for writing, she’s sticking to Highlanders and contemporaries with a paranormal twist (for now).
Jessi brings her love of research to her worlds and characters. She believes good always triumphs over evil, but in the most compelling stories, evil gives good one heck of a run for its money. The last time she imagined a world without romance novels, her husband found her crouched in the corner, rocking.
Jessi strongly believes in embracing community. She loves her neighborhood and loves getting together with
her writing friends, mom friends, church friends, and, well, anyone who shares an interest. She can often be found having coffee at one of the many neighborhood coffee spots she frequents, or indulging in sweets with The Cupcake Crew, her wonderful critique group.
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