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 facing.
Excerpt:
The healing burn of the
sun pinned Margery to the ground. Her eyes wouldn’t open, but she could see the
blazing orange from under her lids. She’d been saved. Pressing her cheek
against the sun-warmed grass, she took a deep breath of fresh air for the first
time in a week. Coughs racked her body. She was still so weak. A tear leaked
out of her eye.
“Please don’t cry,
chérie. You’re safe here.”
That was the lake
dragon. The one who’d helped rescue her. Margery’s hands clutched the ground.
She was no longer on the water, trapped in a smuggler’s hold hidden under the
deck of a yacht. No longer lying in her own waste, dying a slow and painful
death.
“Where am I?” she asked,
her words coming out as a strangled whisper.
“You’re at my home in
North Hero, Vermont. It’s very private here.”
He had a sexy way of
talking. French Canadian accent, if she wasn’t mistaken. It was comforting,
nonthreatening. Margery stretched as the healing sunbeams sank into her core.
“Your kidnappers have
been brought to justice.”
They were more than
kidnappers. In return for pimping Margery out to Champ, they had wanted him to
turn a blind eye to their smuggling operation on his lake.
The doll!
Margery bolted upright
and regretted it immediately. “Where is it?” she cried. The sun blinded her,
but she didn’t care. She groped around with her hands.
“What?” he said, panic
in his voice.
“The Smooshie.”
“What the hell is a—”
Champ cut himself off and continued in a more polite tone. “I don’t understand,
my Queen.”
Queen? Oh, right.
“The red dragon doll. I
had it in my hand when you rescued me. It’s very important.”
“Uh, hold on. Let me
check my truck.”
She heard him run.
Great. He probably
thought she was an idiot looking for her little dolly.
Rubbing her eyes, Margery tried to stand up.
But her legs refused to obey her, muscles trembling as she strained to rise.
The pirates had grabbed
her when her camera’s flash malfunctioned and went off while she was taking
pictures of their illicit activity—stuffing the dolls with drugs. When they saw
her, they tried to kill her. If she’d been human, they would have. But when the
bullets tore into her, she had instinctively shifted into her sky dragon form.
She’d only been a dragon
for three weeks. Actually, she had always been a dragon, but an ancient curse
had stopped her shift at puberty and blocked her dragon magic. When that curse
was shattered, all the suppressed Queens shifted into their true forms. It took
a lot of getting used to. The first week, all she did was cry and break things.
The second week she flew around the world over and over again until sheer
exhaustion claimed her. By the time the third week rolled around, Margery
figured she’d better get over herself and return to her career as an
investigative reporter.
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.
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