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
2:
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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