Servants
of Fate
Boxed
Set
Books
1-3
Wendy
Sparrow
Genre:
Paranormal romance
Publisher:
Pen and Kink Publishing
Date
of Publication: December 24, 2016
ISBN:
978-1-988233-21-5
ASIN:
B01N1Q567S
Number
of pages: 308
Word
Count: 96,000
Cover
Artist: Amanda C. Davis
Book
Description:
As
servants of Fate, Father Time’s sons must sacrifice a mortal’s
lifetime on behalf of humanity before each year ends. It’s simpler
if they don’t get involved, as their immortality is a barrier to
relationships and to understanding the emotions of those whose lives
end in a blink, especially if these time holders have a hand in it.
Servants of Fate pass in and out of the lives of those around them,
never interacting, until a different type of fate steps in. They can
stop time, but love will leave them powerless.
THIS
COLLECTION CONTAINS ALL THREE TITLES FROM THE SERVANTS OF FATE SERIES
Stealing
Time
Father
Time’s son, Zeit Geist, must sacrifice a mortal’s lifetime to the
Fates each New Year’s Eve. Last year—inexplicably, really—he
made an 11:59 substitution. The Fates are pissed and they’re after
his mortal Hannah. With the year ending, he ought to figure out why
he’d saved her—and why he keeps doing it.
Following
an unlucky year, Hannah Lyons needs a week’s holiday in a lodge to
unwind. What she gets is near-death experiences and a sexy immortal
who can’t avoid kissing her, but might have to kill her. After all,
even Zeit can’t hold back time indefinitely.
Taking
Time
Tempus
fugit. Time flies…unless you’re Tempus Halt, Father Time’s son.
Day in and day out are the same, except for New Year’s Eve when he
steals the life of a mortal on behalf of the Fates. This year marks
his first failure to stay the monotonous course. A mortal’s kiss
and her insistence on taking the place of his year’s sacrifice
stalled out everything. Now, Tempus has to keep her alive for a year
so his sacrifice isn’t wasted, but that’s the only
reason—definitely.
One
of these crazy grim reapers stole Lacey Carpenter’s estranged
father’s life two years ago. She’ll give her own life rather than
letting it happen again. It backfires when Tempus doesn’t actually
kill her, and they have to spend the year together. She’s falling
for an immortal who stops time, not just to save her life, but also
to ruin her dates and steal her books. This can never work and fate
is just not on her side—in fact, they’d really like her dead
before Tempus falls for her in return.
Keeping
Time
When
Ruin’s mortal sacrifice to the Fates on New Year’s Eve is already
dying, it should be the easiest life he has to take, but not this
year. The dying man knows Ruin is there to kill him, but he asks
Father Time’s son to look after his twin sister. Ruin can’t stay
away from the sweet and sensual Phoebe. His previous interactions
with women changed the definition of his name, Ruin, so he can’t
fall for her, especially when the lovely mortal doesn’t know he
killed her brother.
Phoebe’s
brother promised to send her a guardian angel, but Ruin seems too
devilish to be holy. He only wants to be friends and keep watch over
her, but she can’t resist him. Loving Ruin is a sin tempting her
heart. How wrong is it to cause an angel’s fall? Ruin and Phoebe’s
time is running out as another New Year’s Eve sacrifice approaches,
and Ruin might lose everything for keeping his true hand in fate
secret.
Excerpt:
It
took them another three attempts to get what they both deemed were
acceptable snowman portions.
“Hey.
Coal.” With raised eyebrows, Hannah held up the two lumps of coal
that had come in his snowman kit. “Get a good long look because
this is what you’re getting next year.”
He
couldn’t stop smiling at her. A dozen times each hour today, he’d
wished he could slow down time because he wanted to spend more time
with Hannah—he needed that. She was singing Frosty the Snowman with
a carefree abandon he’d never felt before. If only he didn’t have
the end of the year looming over him.
“Okay,
pass me his corn cob pipe,” she said.
He
pulled the “pipe” out of the box and stared at it. “Our snowman
is a smoker? And this is a kids’ song?”
“It
was written back before people worried about things like their
lungs,” she said, reaching for it.
He
pulled it away. No. It wasn’t right. “His days are already
numbered, and he’s playing with fire—actual fire?”
“Ohhhh,
right.” She tilted her head. “Wow, that does make him a bit of a
rebel, doesn’t it? I bet the snowladies were all suitably
impressed.”
Zeit
looked around. There were mortal children all around. Young
impressionable mortal children. He put the pipe back in the box.
“Or
he’s not really a rebel. He likes to play things safe. Then again,”
she tapped his coal eyes, “he did earn his coal. Maybe he’s got
nothing to prove. There should be buttons in the box.”
He
pulled off his glove to search through the bottom of the box, pulling
out three buttons. “What is he buttoning up?” he asked as he
handed them to Hannah.
She’d
started pressing the buttons into his middle snow section, but she
stopped and bit her lip as she stared at the round button still in
her hand. Finally, she shrugged and pushed the last one in. “I
think you’re overanalyzing this.”
“Or
it’s a mortal tradition that could use some scrutiny.” He held
out the faux carrot that came in his kit.
“But,
look, he’s healthy. A carrot.”
“Is
he going to eat his own nose?”
“I
can’t do this with you now.”
About
the Author:
After
a childhood spent wandering as a military brat, Wendy Sparrow found
her home in Washington State. Her days involve convincing her two
kids she knows how to properly parent and her nights showing her
husband all the cool things romance authors know… or goofing around
online… or reading, but mostly the first thing.
She’s
active in OCD and autism communities and writes on her blog to
support awareness in both. With her whole heart, Wendy believes
everyone deserves a happily-ever-after. If she's not writing or
wrangling kids, she's on Twitter, @WendySparrow, where she'll chat
with anyone about anything.
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/WendySparrow
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