Excerpt Spotlight: Surrender to the Highlander (The Highlander Series ) by Lynsay Sands + giveaway

 

Surrender to the Highlander (The Highlander Series )

by Lynsay Sands
January 30, 2018 
Genre: Adult Historical Romance
Publisher: Avon Books 

In New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands’ captivating romance, a lass targeted by an unknown foe is saved—and seduced—by a bold Highlander.

Edith Drummond owes her life to Niels Buchanan and his brothers. Waking after an illness to a castle overrun by rugged Highlanders is disconcerting, but so is learning that she’s slowly being poisoned. Niels insists on staying by her side, and Edith soon discovers that even more dangerous is her wild attraction to the fierce warrior.

Niels has never met a more courageous—or enticing—woman than Lady Edith. The idea of such a bonny lass being forced to enter a nunnery is more than any red-blooded Scotsman could bear. He’ll gladly marry her himself. But while sweeping her off her feet is easy, it’ll take all his skill to defeat her family’s relentless enemies, and convince her to surrender to his sweet embrace. . . .

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EXCERPT:

He would kiss her now…

It was why she had brought him here, to get that kiss he was about to give her before they had been interrupted.

Niels lowered his head until his mouth covered hers. His lips lightly brushed over hers. But when Edith raised her hands to slide them up his arms, his tongue traced the crease between her lips.

Edith instinctively opened to him on a little sigh and he caught her lower lip between his, and drew on it teasingly. Then he tilted his head as his tongue swept to fill her mouth and the sweet tempo suddenly changed.

She clutched his shoulders tightly as his mouth ravished hers. It was as if the passion they had shared by the loch had been merely restrained when they’d been interrupted, and now he had unleashed it.

About the Author:

    

LYNSAY SANDS is the nationally bestselling author of the Argeneau/Rogue Hunter vampire series, as well as numerous historicals and anthologies. She’s been writing stories since grade school and considers herself incredibly lucky to be able to make a career out of it. Her hope is that readers can get away from their everyday stress through her stories, and if there’s occasional uncontrollable fits of laughter, that’s just a big bonus. Please visit her on the web at http://www.lynsaysands.net. 

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To celebrate the release of SURRENDER TO THE HIGHLANDER, we’re giving away two paperback sets of FALLING FOR THE HIGHLANDER and THE HIGHLANDER TAKES A BRIDE by Lynsay Sands!

GIVEAWAY TERMS & CONDITIONS: Open to US shipping addresses only. Two winners will each receive a paperback set of Falling for the Highlander and The Highlander Takes a Bride by Lynsay Sands. This giveaway is administered by Pure Textuality PR on behalf of Avon Romance. Giveaway ends 2/3/2018 @ 11:59pm EST. Avon Romance will send the winning copies out to the winner directly. Limit one entry per reader and mailing address. Duplicates will be deleted.
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Spotlight: Immortal Unchained (An Argeneau Novel #25) by Lynsay Sands + whole series giveaway

Immortal Unchained (An Argeneau Novel #25)

by Lynsay Sands
3/28/2017
ISBN: 9780062468840
In a spellbinding new Argeneau novel from New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands, a dangerous rescue is just the beginning of red-hot adventure…

Ever since Domitian Argenis recognized Sarita as his life mate, he's been waiting for the perfect moment to claim her. Those fantasies did not include him being chained to a table in a secret lab, or both of them being held hostage by a mad scientist. Somehow, they have to escape…

Sarita has seen some crazy things as a cop, but nothing to rival Domitian. A vampire? Seriously? But his healing ability, incredible powers, and their mind-blowing physical connection-none of it should be possible, yet her body knows differently. Now, not only do they have to save each other, but other innocent lives are at stake. Failure is not an option, for Sarita intends for Domitian to show her exactly what an eternity of pleasure feels like…

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Lynsay Sands is the nationally bestselling author of the Argeneau/Rogue Hunter vampire series, as well as numerous historicals and anthologies. She's been writing stories since grade school and considers herself incredibly lucky to be able to make a career out of it. Her hope is that readers can get away from their everyday stress through her stories, and if there's occasional uncontrollable fits of laughter, that's just a big bonus.

GIVEAWAY 

All previous Argeneau Books

· A Quick Bite 

· Love Bites 

· Single White Vampire 

· Tall Dark & Hungry 

· A Bite To Remember 

· Bite Me If You Can 

· The Accidental Vampire 

· Vampires Are Forever 

· Vampire, Interrupted 

· The Rogue Hunter 

· The Immortal Hunter 

· The Renegade Hunter 

· Born To Bite 

· Hungry For You 

· The Reluctant Vampire 

· Under A Vampire Moon 

· Lady Is A Vamp 

· Immortal Ever After 

· One Lucky Vampire 

· Vampire Most Wanted 

· The Immortal Who Loved Me 

· About A Vampire 

· Runaway Vampire 

· Immortal Nights

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The Reluctant Vampire

The Reluctant Vampire: An Argeneau Novel by author Lynsay Sands is the latest book in her Argeneau Vampires series. Lynsay has been a hit or miss author for me over the years. I have found several of her stories so wonderfully exciting that I keep going back to her, but every other book happens to fall flat. This story is one of those times...dull with no character development. :(

Plot:

Has this immortal finally met her match?

Rogue hunter Drina Argenis (from the Spanish side of the Argeneau family) has been many things in her years as an immortal, but bodyguard/babysitter to a teenage vampire is something new. There's an incentive, however: the other vampsitter, Harper Stoyan, may be Drina's life mate.

Trouble is, having just lost a life mate, Harper is resigned to being alone. He's completely unprepared when sexy and unpredictable Drina bursts into his life to reignite his passions. Can Drina, with a little matchmaking help from their teen charge, tempt this reluctant vampire to take a chance?

Or will a dangerous, unseen renegade kill Drina and Harper's one chance at happiness?

Maybe I'm just not a fan of family novels, but with so much talk about shopping trips and making meals etc, I had to wonder were all the action went? Sucked through a worm hole maybe. Pages and pages of filler and nothing that grabbed hold of me. I don't really care who puts on who's boots or inter-character debates about what car to drive. I want an exciting story that can suck me in like with Sands other novel The Renegade Hunter. That book was fantastic! Anything that got almost exciting in this story turned out to be a false alarm. It felt very mushy around the edges for my tastes.

Here are a few specific examples of what I'm talking about. Harper lost his wife a year ago and is "reluctant" about having a new life mate. I was expecting to see a lot more in his character, but only a few pages pass with him feeling any guilt whatsoever! Almost immediately, Bam! He wants to rip Drina's cloths off and get down to it. As the story progresses, several attacks are taking place against the vamps who are supposed to be protecting a teenage girl. Our hunter Drina doesn't get around to investigating these attacks. In fact, all the tuff stuff alluded to from her past end up never being used in the story! What happened? An immortal who used to be a gladiator and pirate turns into a kitten over night? She was completely soft and reliant on others. The only redeeming thing about this story was the romance between Harper and Drina, but that aside the plot and characters were just a waste of time.

Unfortunately this book is lacking so much I can't really recommend it to anyone. I'd say pick up The Renegade Hunter instead. I have to point out that after all this, I wont give up. I'm still holding out for other gems in the series.

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