The
Queen’s Dance
The
Emerging Queens Series,
Book
Three
Jamie
K. Schmidt
Genre:
Paranormal Romance
Publisher:
Entangled
Date
of Publication: 5/23/16
Number
of pages: 267
Word
Count: 63,000
Cover
Artist: Fiona Jayde
Book
Description:
After
newly shifted dragon Queen, Margery Cooper, is rescued from smugglers
she has a choice to continue to hunt down the story that nearly
killed her when she was an investigative reporter or embrace her
royalty and build a court of protectors and studs. Remy “Champ”
Champlain is first on the scene and assigned her protector while she
sorts out her affairs. He wants nothing more to get back to his
solitude and his small town, but as an unclaimed dragon he doesn’t
get a choice.
The
Queen is his responsibility until her court is formalized. He wants
to settle her down right away, but she has this wild hair up her
Queenly butt to find out who is smuggling dangerous drugs into the
country.
Sparks
fly between them, but as she's a sky dragon and he's a water dragon,
well she can't swim and he can't fly and those aren't the only
differences they're faci
Excerpt
Margery was lying
out in the sun again. She felt the heat press into her bones from the
hard deck under her and the rays beating into her skin.
Bliss.
Listening,
she could hear the creak of the deck chair and the splash of the
waves. Where was Remy?
She
wanted to open her eyes and sit up, but she didn’t know where they
were. Would she be flashing all of Lake Champlain? Her hands inched
around on the deck hoping to find her bikini. No luck. But she did
feel a sheet balled up at the very edge of her reach. Snatching it,
she wrapped it around herself and sat up and wobbled—she’d had
tequila hangovers that didn’t feel like this. When her eyes
adjusted to the sunlight, she realized she was alone.
“Remy?”
she called. She didn’t feel up to standing, so she sat there on
deck and wondered why she’d passed out. It had just been starting
to get good, too. Margery touched her lips where Remy’s kisses had
left their brand then smiled and hoped he didn’t think he’d
frightened her.
While
she’d gotten really cold, and the dark did remind her briefly of
being a prisoner below deck with the pirates, that’s where the
similarities ended. Margery knew Remy would never hurt her. She
wasn’t sure why she’d passed out, but it had nothing to do with
him. Concentrating, she tried to emerge into a dragon so she could
fly around the lake, but pain jackhammered into her skull until she
was retching bile over the side of the deck.
“S***,”
she gurgled.
She
thumped back to the deck and closed her eyes until the pain went
away, which took longer than she expected. Luckily, the sun’s
warmth bored into her every pore, and the headache eased to a mild
throb. Margery stretched and rolled over so she wouldn’t get
sunburned.
Too
bad she’d passed out. She didn’t quite get the politics of the
consort thing, but if it was a choice between Remy, Casimiro, and a
total stranger, her best bet was Remy. It didn’t have to be love,
after all. Not yet, anyway. It would have been nice to have a night
of mind-blowing sex and fall asleep cuddled up in a man’s arms.
Ever since Casimiro did a number on her heart, Margery wasn’t too
keen on letting that organ decide her bed partners. Her libido had
good taste, and right now Remy would fit the bill. If she could stay
conscious for it.
A
big wave lifted the boat, and she clutched at the deck as the vessel
swayed nearly to tipping. Then Remy launched onto the deck. He was
fully dressed and not even dripping.
She
squinted up at him. “How do you do that?”
“Did
you have a nice night?” he asked, turning his back on her to go to
the helm and raise the anchor.
About
the Author:
USA
Today bestselling author, Jamie K. Schmidt, writes erotic
contemporary love stories and paranormal romances. Her Club Inferno
series from Random House’s Loveswept line has hit both the Amazon
and Barnes & Noble top one hundred lists. She has two other
series with Loveswept: Hawaii Heat, in which the first book Life’s
A Beach is the perfect staycation to Maui, and The Sentinels of
Babylon, about members of vigilante Motorcycle Club and their old
ladies. Her dragon paranormal romance series from Entangled
Publishing, has been called “fun and quirky” and “endearing.”
Partnered with New York Times bestselling author and former porn
actress, Jenna Jameson, Jamie’s hardcover debut, SPICE, continues
Jenna’s FATE trilogy.
An
avid knitter and jewelry maker, Jamie is never bored. She can often
be found with a mug of tea on the computer flanked by her little dogs
& fluffy white cat. You can follow her on twitter at
@Jamiekswriter or on her author page on Facebook. When she's not
writing or crafting, Jamie loves playing games, everything from board
games to strategy card games, console and online MMORPGs.
Website
http://jamiekschmidt.weebly.com/
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