Title: A Celtic Yuletide Carol
Author: Jennifer Ivy Walker
Genre: Medieval holiday romance
Book Blurb:
Once a royal Breton knight, Sir Cardin de Landuc is now infamously known as Basati, the Basque Wolf. Savage and sullen, he drowns his guilt in raucous taverns, accruing enormous debt and acquiring vengeful enemies.
Ulla, widowed daughter of a Viking chieftain, is a skilled archer who lives as a recluse in a secluded woodland cottage. Rendered mute by trauma, she avoids humans, preferring the company of her wild wolf and falcon as she hunts in the Forest of Brocéliande.
When his mother’s dying wish calls Basati home, he finally meets the son he abandoned at birth and Ulla, the enigmatic priestess who is teaching the boy to hunt. As the holidays approach, Basati finds himself smitten with the beguiling beauty as he bonds with his once forsaken child. But past enemies plot against him, and Basati is ensnared in darkness.
Can music lure the savage wolf into the light of love?
Excerpt:
The wind whipped her long black hair, her spirit soaring freely with her falcon Finn, as Nåde galloped and her wolf Vill raced across the forested ground.
Ulla much preferred the silent company of animals over the garrulous presence of people who made the loss of her speaking voice a painful reminder of the horrific past. Once, she’d sung like a lark, her melodic voice in perfect harmony with the mellow notes of the golden harp her fingers had so lovingly strummed. She’d often regaled the entire Château de Landuc with sublime music, her soul unleashed like Finn now winging through the cerulean sky. But shock stole her speech and silenced her song, rendering Ulla as mute as the trees.
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Share a holiday family tradition:
I always make Christmas Spice Cookies (my grandmother’s recipe) from scratch for my children-- and now grandchildren—to decorate on Christmas Eve. I make homemade buttercream frosting, divide it into six or seven coffee cups, and add food coloring to make all different colors for decorating the cookies. The children select the color(s) frosting they want to use, then decorate the cookies with a variety of toppings, such as white or milk chocolate chips, rainbow sprinkles, chocolate sprinkles, cinnamon candies, raisins, and colored sugar. They decorate a few cookies for Santa, some for Mom and Dad, and some for themselves to eat. A loving holiday family tradition that I’ve celebrated for over thirty years.
Why is your featured book perfect to get readers in the holiday mood?
It’s a medieval holiday romance where the light of love triumphs over darkness.
Giveaway –
One lucky reader will win a $100 Amazon gift card.
Open internationally.
Runs December 1 – 31, 2024
Drawing will be held on January 2, 2025.
Author Biography:
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.
Her new holiday release, “A Celtic Yuletide Carol”, is a steamy medieval romance between a broken, battered royal knight and a solitary, mute healer and huntress who prefers the company of her wolf and falcon to humans. Both protagonists are shattered souls who slowly find solace in each other.
Readers who enjoyed Winter Solstice in the Crystal Castle and The Wild Rose and the Sea Raven trilogy—a fated mates paranormal fantasy adaptation of the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde, interwoven with Arthurian myth, Avalon, Elves, Druids, forest fairies, Vikings, and dark magic—will recognize several of the main characters in this new medieval romance as well.
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