WICKED WEDNESDAY
Welcome to Wicked Wednesday. Today my guest, Jennifer Ivy Walker, will share with you some wickedness in her book...and you have to know a character called the Black Widow Queen would be wicked.
The villain in “The Wild Rose and the Sea Raven” trilogy is Morag, The Black Widow Queen. She’s a composite of the wicked stepmother from Snow White, Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty, and a seductress who uses her feminine wiles to manipulate and control men. She’s ruthless, relentless, and merciless.
The Black Widow Queen must eliminate the Emerald Princess, and she weaves a deliciously wicked web of evil to entrap her.
Blurb: Hunted by the Black Widow Queen, Issylte--a healer with the verdant
magic of the forest--must flee Avalon with the two finest knights in the Celtic
realm, both wrongly accused of treason. The trio travels to Bretagne, where
Issylte heals a critically injured wolf and obtains fiercely loyal, shapeshifting
allies.
In mystical Brocéliande, Issylte becomes a warrior priestess of the Tribe of
Dana and otherworldly mate of the Blue Knight of Cornwall, discovering with
Tristan a passion that transcends all bounds. When she becomes the Lady of the
Mirrored Lake, sworn to defend the sacred waters of the Goddess, Issylte must
undertake a perilous quest to discover what priceless object lies hidden in its
murky depths.
As a nascent evil emerges in a fetid cave, Issylte and Tristan must face a
diabolical trio that threatens their lives, their love, and their kingdoms.
Enchanted. Enflamed. Entwined. Can their passion and power prevail?
Excerpt: The Black Widow Queen
The dark wizard circled in front of her and retrieved a small flask from his pocket. She searched his gleaming, golden eyes. The eyes of a dragon that smoldered with passion. Liquid fire flowed through her loins.
He
handed her the small black stoppered vial. It pulsed with power in her hand.
“What
is this?” she gasped with a quick intake of breath. Her heart quivered in her
breast.
“Your future, my Black Widow Queen.” He leaned
forward to take the vial, placing it on the table at her side. “The key to the
throne of Cornwall.”
Morag
locked eyes with her golden dragon. Her mouth went dry.
Voldurk
raised her to her feet, a sly grin spreading across his darkly handsome face.
His seductive voice slithered into the shell of her ear.
“Wolfsbane.”
Her heart fluttered wildly as he planted a
lush kiss upon her eager lips. Morag melted into his arms as her legs gave out.
Power was a potent aphrodisiac.
He
carried her across the room. Stripped off her black garments of mourning. His
wicked lips scorching her icy bare skin, the golden dragon laid his queen’s
nude, quivering body upon the lavender scented bed.
And engulfed her lovely, lonely loins in the blazing flames of dragonfire.
Enthralled with
legends of medieval knights and ladies, dark fairy tales and fantasies about
Druids, wizards and magic, Jennifer Ivy Walker always dreamed of becoming a
writer. She fell in love with French in junior high school, continuing her
study of the language throughout college, eventually becoming a high school
teacher and college professor of French.
As a high school teacher, she took her students every year to the annual French
competition, where they performed a play she had written, "Yseult la Belle
et Tristan la Bête"--an imaginative blend of the medieval French legend of
"Tristan et Yseult" and the fairy tale "Beauty and the
Beast", enhanced with fantasy elements of a Celtic fairy and a wicked witch.
“The Lady of the Mirrored Lake”—book 2 of “The Wild Rose and the Sea Raven”
trilogy--is a blend of her love for medieval legends, the romantic French
language, and paranormal fantasy. It is a paranormal fantasy adaptation of the
medieval legend of "Tristan et Yseult" (Tristan and Isolde), interwoven
with Arthurian myth, dark fairy tales from the enchanted Forest of Brocéliande,
and otherworldly elements such as Avalonian Elves, Druids, forest fairies and
magic.
Explore her realm of Medieval French Fantasy. She hopes her novels will enchant
you.
Website: https://jenniferivywalker.com/
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Thank you very much for the feature of my upcoming Jan 23 release of "The Lady of the Mirrored Lake"!
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome. Thanks for guesting.
DeleteA wonderful post! It was easy to hate Morag in the first book and I can't wait to see her get what she has coming to her! Congratulations to Ivy on this new release! Thank you, Brenda, for hosting!
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome, Jan. Sounds like you're a fan!
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