Naked Rebel by @anitaphilmar #RockingSummerRomance #4FunFacts

SummerAnita Philmar joins us today with Four Fun Facts about her futuristic romance, Naked Rebel, a Rocking Summer Romance, and a steamy excerpt.

Naked Rebel CoverA spy that prefers to work alone, Nick Royster’s assignment is turned upside down when his superiors sends him a personal companion. Not appreciating the need to watch someone else’s back, he attends a dinner of Salsar’s inner group. Only to learn, he has to sacrifice Rane to get the information he needs to end the war.

Rane knows the important of winning. Her family slaughtered by Salsar, this is her homeland and she plans to do whatever it takes to win her peoples’ freedom.

With everything on the line, can these two have any future together or does love and war equal heartache?

4 Fun Facts
Four Fun Facts:

1. I loved geology in school so had to write about it. That’s why the hero is working in a mine.

2. I wrote this story to show how far a person would go to save their country. For women, fighting is not always an option but they still have skills which can crumble countries.

3. One of the hardest scenes to write in this book was the orgy scene. Keeping track of all the people stopped the story short for several months until I figured out how I wanted it to work.

4. For a while, I did cross promotion with a wine distributor called Naked Rebel wine.

Excerpt

“I know it’s not much, but its home.” At least for the last few months it’d been. Once he’d reached the rank of top miner, it’d taken less than a year to make head foreman. Yet, he still didn’t know the location of nustru’s purification plant.

“Nice.” A muffled voice rang through his small two room unit.

He glanced around at the bare walls. She couldn’t be serious.

Yes, he didn’t have to live in a tent, but the place wasn’t a proper home for a woman either. An ugly brown couch stood right by the door while a yellow counter with a cooler and stove occupied the opposite wall. The doorway to the back led to a tiny bathroom and an even smaller bedroom.

Not willing to argue about how she never should have been sent here, Nick walked over and looked inside the cooler. “Would you like something to drink?”

“That would be great,” whispered through her veil.

Nick grabbed a protein drink and turned to see her struggling with the hood covering her head. He set down her drink and stepped to her side. The black cloak covering her really did its job. He couldn’t see any part of her except her small hands.

“Let’s see, how can we free you from this contraption?” He fingered the rough fabric covering her shoulders and lifted the lip of the cloth running along her biceps.

She stepped back and lowered her head.

He pulled. The hood fell away, revealing her reddish-gold hair.

A loud rip preceded a soft feminine scent, which filled the room. The cloak covering her body tore into long strips and crumbled to the floor at her feet.

A bullet of lust shot straight to his loins at the spectacular view. Full, creamy breasts covered by a skimpy piece of pink lace led to a narrow waist. Another strip hung on her curvy hips and restricted his view of her luscious center. A dark stain on her panties made him wonder if she was already wet with need.

“Nick?”

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Email: anitaphilmar@yahoo.com
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Linda / Lyndi

Hangman’s Daughter by Oliver Pötzsch #review

The Hangman’s Daughter: A Novel
by Oliver Pötzsch
Historical Mystery
Book 1 in The Hangman’s Daughter series

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This book is set in Schongau, Bavaria c. 1660, an era and area I’m not familiar with, so I borrowed it from Amazon’s Kindle Owner’s Lending Library. The main characters are Jacob Kuisl, the town executioner, his nineteen-year-old daughter Magdalena, and the young doctor Simon Fronwieser. In the first chapter, a young boy named Peter is stabbed and thrown into the river. The townsfolk rescue him, but he dies shortly afterwards. A symbol is found painted on his back so everyone’s first thought is WITCHCRAFT!

The mid-wife, Martha Stechlin, immediately comes under suspicion and is arrested and charged with murder. Jacob and Simon don’t believe she is guilty, but the town authorities want the matter settled quickly. When another child dies while Martha is in jail, Jacob knows she isn’t guilty, but those who believe in witchcraft aren’t dissuaded, apparently thinking a witch could kill someone while locked in a dungeon. Rolling eyes here.

Aware that he will be expected to torture her into confessing, whether she is guilty of not, Jacob sets out to solve the murder with help from Simon who is sweet on Magdalena. It takes them a while to figure out what is going on, since the motivation for the murders isn’t revealed until well into the book. I had fingered the “moneybags” behind the murders early on, but not the reasons why he did it.

I found the book interesting and exciting, if a little gory at times. It was a brutal period, poised between the Middle Ages and the modern world. The better educated townsfolk have thrown off the superstitions of the past, but most people haven’t.

I liked the three main characters, esp. Jacob who is a thoughtful and somewhat reluctant executioner. At the time, the job was hereditary, and while it was necessary, the hangman was considered dishonorable, which meant that his daughter could not aspire so high as to marry a doctor, no matter that Simon never finished his education.

This is the first in a series, and I may read more. Jacob Kuisl was a real person and the author is one of his descendants.