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Excerpt: The Shape Of A Heart

Kimberly Gardner on Nov-18-2008

Here’s an unedited excerpt from my novella, The Shape Of a Heart, which will appear in the Hot Comfort anthology from MLR Press.

Blurb

Grieving after the death of his partner, Zach finds comfort amidst bookshelves and coffee beans in the arms of his new employee, but a secret from Keith’s
past will threaten their new-found happiness and test the strength of their tender, new love.

Copyright 2008 by Kimberly Gardner, all rights reserved.

Excerpt
Keith opened the refrigerator, grabbed the wedge of Locatelli Romano from the top shelf and set it on the counter. What else? While the cool air caressed his heated skin he reviewed the ingredients for the dinner he was cooking for Zach.

The salmon in its white paper sat next to the colander of spring mix, rinsed and ready to go. The little basket of raspberries for the vinaigrette peeked out from behind the tall, dessert glasses filled with chocolate mousse. Maybe they would eat the mousse in bed. That would be fun.
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A Song of the Sidhe ~ An Encore!

Jeanne Barrack on Aug-12-2008

A Song of the Sidhe
available at Liquid Silver Books 
This is an encore of the story that originally came out from another publisher. With a new arrangement, more voices in the chorus, and a brand new cover by the incredible April Martinez!
Here’s the blurb:
The place: Ireland, a long, long time ago when the Sidhe walked among mortals
Donal Bawn was the most handsome man in all of Tipperary with a voice that could lure the birds from the trees. But that all changed when he angered Ogma, High King of the Tipperary Sidhe. Doomed to wander as a hunchback with a voice as thin as a reed, Donal keeps to the forests away from human companionship until one day he hears a melodious female voice singing a fragmented tune over and over.
Ceoleen, a beautiful female of the Galway Sidhe has also been cursed for her vanity and foolhardiness. Blinded and exiled to a fairy ring deep in the woods, she can only repeat a broken phrase of music until that fated day when Donal finishes the song for her.
But their curses are only partially broken. It will take a great deal more than music to decide their fate.
Will their love be strong enough to finally free them?
Visit my Celtic Blog and scroll down just a bit to read an excerpt here
 
When I wrote A Song of the Sidhe, I was inspired by Gaelic music and the Gaelic language, but my love affair with Ireland started a long time ago when I was a little girl. So enamored was I then - and now - that I learned Gaelic. Even the sound of it excites me. And the wondrous tales of Ireland continue to inspire me. The Shimmering Flame, my other work with Liquid Silver Books, is also rooted in Ireland, though set in the Terran Realm
One of the most amazing sites in Ireland is known as The Burren, Irish for “gray rocky place”. The Burren is fifty square miles of great irregular slabs of limestone with deep cracks. Located in County Clare, this humid, eerie moonscape is a natural rock garden, where plants native to the Arctic thrive next to subtropical flora. Beneath the scarred surface are spectacular caves and streams.

There are a number of dolmens (prehistoric gravesites) in the area. The most famous being Poulnebrone Dolmen.

Folk legends associated with the Burren say its holy wells can cure bad vision and its caves are home to ghostly horsemen. It is also reputed that mysterious lakes appear and disappear there, taking with them maidens who have been turned into swans.
Visiting the Burren was one of the most magical moments in my trip to Ireland so many years ago.

 So I’m curious to know. Have you ever visited a place that you felt was magical?

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