Please
welcome Nancy Lee Badger and her book, Heaven Sent Highlander. I am so thankful she has this week’s post.
Thanks
for having me back on your blog to talk about my 27th book. Heaven Sent Highlander
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I am a multi-published
and award-winning author working in
Raleigh, North Carolina. This new release, which was also just released in
paperback, is a paranormal romance set in North Carolina. The book is filled
with sights, sounds, a fabulous art museum, horses, sword fights, and a demon
bent on capturing the Fae who murdered him.
A
love of art, especially the bronze sculptures by the French master, Auguste
Rodin, helped spark the idea that brought this story to life. Well, only
after my two sisters told me about the new addition the NC Museum of Art had
opened and, since it was only about 5 miles from my home, I found myself
spending countless hours making notes, taking photos, and working on the
series. All three are full-length books, with the first called Heaven-sent
Warrior. This book, Heaven-sent Highlander, is the second
book in my Warriors in Bronze series released by Soul Mate Publishing. It
will be followed early next year by Heaven-sent Flame.
Book Blurb
At an American museum, surrounded by Auguste
Rodin’s bronze statues, a Scottish Fae beauty is at a crossroads. Now that
Gwendolyn’s friends are engaged, and the demon they fought vanquished, should
she return home? After committing a terrible act, she could not explain to her
cousin why she had appeared on his doorstep.
Alexander awoke in darkness inside a bronze statue, remembering how the green of Scotland’s Culloden field had turned red with blood that day in 1746. Had he died before awakening nude and sightless in front of strangers in present-day Raleigh, North Carolina? The mystery of how was overshadowed by why. Told that another warrior awoke when a demon threatened to take over the world, had a second demon escaped Hell? When the demon appears and demands Gwen join him, Alex must use all his new skills, weapons, and Heaven-sent powers to keep her and the world safe.
Alexander awoke in darkness inside a bronze statue, remembering how the green of Scotland’s Culloden field had turned red with blood that day in 1746. Had he died before awakening nude and sightless in front of strangers in present-day Raleigh, North Carolina? The mystery of how was overshadowed by why. Told that another warrior awoke when a demon threatened to take over the world, had a second demon escaped Hell? When the demon appears and demands Gwen join him, Alex must use all his new skills, weapons, and Heaven-sent powers to keep her and the world safe.
Excerpt
Eager
to find the demon, vanquish it, then spend some quality time with Gwen, Alex jumped
up and over the counter and headed for the glass doors. He assumed Gwen would
follow him, and prayed Sam stayed elsewhere.
Beyond
the museum’s glass doors, what waited was a huge white beast with a mouthful of
teeth and a throaty growl.
“We should go outside,
but wait for me,” Alex heard Gwen call to him, as she made her way out the
office door. She joined him by the entrance, but he swept an arm out to keep
her back, making her stop in her tracks. He stood perfectly still with his back
to her, his feet apart, and his staff at the ready.
“Did you just
growl?” she whispered.
He did not move,
nor did he answer her. A thin plate of clear fragile-looking glass stood
between them and a huge snarling beast of a dog. “I believe yer beastie has
decided to join us,” he whispered.
She suddenly
shoved past him. “Where is the demon-fighting Hellhound?”
“He acts like he
wants to eat me.”
“Don’t be silly,
Alex. I was worried about him. If anything happens to that dog, Kenzie will
have my head!”
The image
of a headless Gwendolyn turned his stomach. As he watched, the beast spun and
leaped high in the air, turned, and ran off. “We should wait inside where it is
safe.”
“Go
ahead and wait, but Ivor is on to something.” Gwen pushed open the huge doors
and chased the beast as it headed toward the wooded area. When they disappeared
among the trees, Alex willed his feet to move, and he ran.
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Nancy Lee Badger grew up in Huntington on New
York’s Long Island, where school field trips to lofty museums were the norm.
After attending Plymouth State, in New Hampshire, she earned a Bachelor of
Science degree in Art Education and met and married her college sweetheart.
They raised two handsome sons in Rumney, New Hampshire, where Nancy volunteered
as an EMT and firefighter while working full-time. When the children had left the
nest, and shoveling snow became a chore, she retired from her satisfying job as
a 9-1-1 Emergency Medical Dispatcher and moved with her husband to North
Carolina, where she writes full-time.
Nancy is a member of Romance Writers of America, Heart of Carolina
Romance Writers, Fantasy-Futuristic & Paranormal Romance Writers, and the Triangle
Association of Freelancers. She loves to travel and attend Scottish Highland
Games and is never far from her laptop. She finds story ideas in the most
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