What is The Hazard with Hearts?

Posted on August 25, 2024June 7, 2024 by writer35_bg

Regency Mystery with an Eerie Touch of the Gothic and a Dash of Romance

The Hazard with Hearts concludes the Hearts in Hazard series.

Two wives haunt the castle. Will she be the third to die?

Vivienne Northrup agreed to a marriage of convenience to reap the benefits of becoming the Countess of Sheldrake. While she explores the ruins of Sheldrake Castle, a falling stone dislodged from a tower nearly kills her.

Only then does Vivienne discover that the earl’s previous two wives died tragically. The first had jumped to her death from that very tower.

Or had the woman been pushed?

Had someone tried to Kill Vivienne with the stone?

In the gothic tradition of Victoria Holt and Dorothy Eden, The Hazard with Hearts offers a determined heroine who confronts doubts, superstition, and the dark passions of a killer who wants every countess of Sheldrake dead and buried.

The Hazard with Hearts is book 12 in the Hearts in Hazard series of mysteries and suspense, with just a dash of sweet romance. The stories are loosely connected with each story complete in one book.

2 Free Glimpses and 2 Audio Files

For an audio narrated by the Author M.A. Lee: Click the link to listen on PodBean.

If you prefer to read the first chapter, please click this document file:

Haz with Hearts 1st chapter

You can listen to an audio file about Maxwell Herrick, 9th Earl of Sheldrake at this link

Or you can read this document file: Haz with Hearts Meet Max

They whisper that he is Bluebeard. His first two wives haunt the castle? Will his third wife be next to die?

Want to Read about Writing Problems?

“What’s in a Name?” That was a major question at the beginning of the rough draft for M.A. Lee’s The Hazard with Hearts.

Read about her problems here!

Enjoy.

LINKS

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Outlaws of Wild Sherwood from Edie Roones

Posted on August 20, 2024March 30, 2024 by writer35_bg

Outlaws of Wild Sherwood

In this anthology, five men are the Outlaws of Wild Sherwood, and they encounter Robin Hood’s enemies as well as the Faeries of British legend.

Wild Sherwood collection 2 — Cover by Deranged Doctor Design

First up, Dav the Wrestler, a friend of Robin Hood and his men.

A Twist of Faerie Magic

Twist after twist reveals the true heart.

Dav spent months earning prizes for wrestling, all to raise enough coins to marry his love Edrys.

On his return to Nottingham, however, he discovers Edrys married another man during his absence. When he sees bruises on her, he threatens her husband.

Then the man is found dead, and Dav is accused.

How can a twist of Faerie magic reveal the true culprit?

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No fighter, unskilled with knife or bow or sword, the singer Alan discovers a way to defeat Robin’s enemies.

“A Faerie Song for a Feast”

Masks, Mummers, and a Faerie Song

When a corrupt abbot double-charges the rents of simple farmers, Robin Hood and his men decide to intervene. Alan-a-Dale risks playing a song learned in the land of Faeries to help Robin Hood and his men.

Yet the Faerie Elandrielle warned him never to play music he learned while visiting Underhill.

What will she do when he breaks her command?

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Arthur à Bland joined the outlaw band. What will he do when he believes Little John has wronged his sister?

“Mischief Of A Faerie”

A Challenge With Quarterstaves

Arthur’s sister names a bearded giant as her newborn’s father. The only bearded giant that the young poacher knows is the outlaw Little John. Arthur storms off, resolved to force John to support his child.

He can’t shame an outlaw into honor. He can’t force a man taller and stronger than he is to shoulder his responsibilities.

Will the Faerie Iofrin’s mischief lead to the answer?

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The outlaw Jack Greenleaf only belongs to Robin’s band of men.

“The Green Man”

A Venture With Destiny

Bad luck has plagued Jack Greenleaf for years. Abandoned, evicted, and rejected, he joined the other outcasts in Sherwood Forest. The Green Man of the Faerie may seal his fate.

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Gilbert Whitehand works the bar at the Tinker’s Wife Tavern, but he’s a great friend of Robin Hood.

“The Prize of a Golden Arrow”

By Hook or Crook or Arrow

Gil vowed never again to take up the long bow. Then he learns the May Day archery contest is a trap to capture Robin Hood. He resolves to foil the Sheriff’s plan.

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The bundled anthology is available Now!

Lovers of fantasy and the Robin Hood legends, Edie Roones and M.A. Lee enjoy fusing the stories of the medieval English outlaws with the dangerous faeries of British myth.

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The first five stories with the Robin Hood legends fused with the British faeries appear in the anthology Into Wild Sherwood, which is also available now.

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https://youtu.be/O9qWTwRZgoI

Watch for more stories about Wild Sherwood, men driven to crime to fight evil and corruption.

Robin Hood,

Will Scarlet,

Little John,

and Much the Miller’s son

Who is the Fae Mark’d Wizard in Weave a Wizardry Web?

Posted on August 5, 2024March 30, 2024 by writer35_bg

Fantasy Set In A Renaissance World

Weave A Wizardry Web by Remi Black

Least becomes great. Greatest becomes least.

Two wizards travel sharp-bladed roads in Weave a Wizardry Web.

Wizard against sorcerer.

Fae against dragon.

Wyre against Rhoghieri.

As children in the Wizard Enclave, Camisse and her niece Alstera recited that catechism daily. Yet the war against sorcery seems far from the Enclave, and the current leaders have forgotten that childhood chant.

What happens when forbidden magic lures wizards?

How many die when shape-shifting wyres invade the Wizard Enclave?

Can Alstera escape the spidery lure of corrupted magic? Or will she become the shifters’ next target?

Meet Alstera at this link.

Meet Camisse in this excerpt.

Click here for information about Web and the Enclave:

https://remiblack.blogspot.com/2021/05/weave-wizardry-web.html

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Twisted Magic in Weave a Wizardry Web

Posted on August 4, 2024March 30, 2024 by writer35_bg

Twisted magic. Foul sorcery. Dark corruption.

Weave a Wizardry Web

Frost Clime threatens the Wizard Enclave. Sorcerers and their servants, shape-shifting wyre, have stolen into the city of Tres Lucerna, home to the Enclave.

Alstera is the greatest of the young wizards in the Enclave; she’s treated like the least.

She’s desperate to join the war against Frost Clime, but the chief wizards refuse. Denied her wish, Alstera explores other ways to increase power.

A Fae disguised in glamour courts her aunt Camisse … but for what purpose? Does Camisee have latent power that the Fae will control? Will a forbidden linkage unlock her magic?

And what of Alstera’s cousins, who have joined an outland wizard’s circle? They dabble in twisted magic.

Danger walks the streets of Tres Lucerna, yet the chief wizards refuse to acknowledge it. Rumors fly … of a taboo nexus of power, of vile blood spells, and of enemy shape-shifters in the heart of the Wizard Enclave.

Then wizards are murdered.

A grim future awaits any wizard lured into forbidden Twisted magic,

And a grimmer death awaits wizards caught by the shifters.

Can Alstera escape the spidery lure of corrupted magic? Or will she become the shifters’ next target?

A dark fantasy of twisted magic, Weave a Wizardry Web by Remi Black is first in the Fae Mark’d Wizard series. Dream a Deadly Dream and Sing a Graveyard Song continue the series.

Visit remiblack.blogspot.com to connect with Remi Black.

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Weave a Wizardry Web :: free glimpse of the Fae Pearroc Seale

Posted on August 3, 2024March 30, 2024 by writer35_bg

Here’s a free glimpse at an opening chapter of Weave a Wizardry Web, by Remi Black, available exclusively from Amazon

Why has the Fae Pearroc Seale assumed the glamour of a Wizard?

What’s his goal?

Chapter 1

Pearroc Ciele poured Fae power into the newly learned wizard spell. Even as it flashed lightning bright, he recognized the weakness that shattered through the spell.

“If you are to pass yourself off as a wizard during the Trials, you must defend as a wizard would, not as a Fae would.”

He twisted his shoulders. The aged man never missed a point when teaching

wizardry. He might be too weary to rise from the chair provided by the arena master, but his black eyes snapped onto a flaw and his quick mind decoded the reason for that flaw. Fae spell contorted to look like wizardry: most wizards would miss the foundation hidden by the swirling energies. Pater Drakon never missed it.

Sine Pearroc’s springtime arrival, Drakon had trained him. Pearroc had selected the aged man, one of the few clan leaders who supported Faeron. A Blade sent in secret to the wizards by his queen the Maorketh Alaisa, he fumbled like a child at some lessons. He didn’t regret his apprenticeship to the master wizard, but it was High Summer, and still he trained.

The old wizard had a point. The Fae sparked power from the tangible element: a flame for Fire, soil for Earth, and on to Air and Water. Then they built the spell based on the power borrowed from the element.s Wizards needed nothing to spark power; it came from their essence. Though Pearroc wielded wizard-shaped power, he still needed a tangible element to initiate his spells. And as he fought to twist his spells to match to wizardry, he often dropped back to the easy Fae wielding.

The sudden clash of steel against steel jerked his head around. Power sparked at his fingertips.

“Stand down,” the Drakon clan leader said. “It’s a practice arena. Are you expecting someone to assassinate me?”

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