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Embraced by Fur by Corinne Davies |
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Today I'm so pleased to host author Corinne Davies. Now, if passion in your paranormal is to your liking (and how can it not be, when you look at the cover of the book featured here?), then you should read Corinne's amazing books - take a look at the rest of them here on her beautiful site. Corinne's here to tell us about a character who haunts her.....
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This is Lars |
Much thanks
to Sue for hosting me here today! This week has been a crazy one and I’m a bit
behind but better late than never! We’re talking about characters that haunt
our thoughts this week and I’m very familiar with this phenomenon.
I’ve had a
couple characters haunt me over the years. Some of them were strong enough to
get their own stories and others took on a more secondary role, but no
character has been more frustrating than the mysterious Viking that lives in
Ecstasy Lake.
Lars is
forever in the back of my subconscious, standing quietly, watching everything
that goes on in the Lake. Every now and again he drops in a hint from his past.
Never much and never often, but when he does…it often raises more questions for
me.
In Embraced
in Fur, Lars stood on the dock having a quiet early morning conversation with
Carol who was trying to figure out her own conflicts.
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“It makes you think of forever. A
deep voice startled Carol out of her thoughts.
Sorry, didn’t mean to frighten you.” His voice was coloured with a
slightly Nordic accent when he spoke. She could almost physically feel it wash
over her.
She looked up and then kept tilting her head. Damn, he’s tall. A big man with broad shoulders and a strong
jawline. Blond hair hung past his shoulders and softened his features slightly.
Not enough to make him look feminine, if anything he looked more masculine.
“How the hell did you sneak up on me like that?”
The man tilted back his head and laughed. The booming sound echoed over
the water and reinforced the Viking image that first crossed her mind when she
looked at him. “I’m afraid that you were caught up in your own thoughts. I tend
to stomp when I walk. Here. I bought you a coffee. Double-double right?”
A large takeout cup was placed in front of her. She recognized The
Shack’s logo on the side of it. “How did you know what I took in my coffee?”
“Catherine told me. She asked me to bring this to you.”
“That was very thoughtful of her.” I’ve
only picked up a coffee once or twice, and she remembered what I like in it? She’d
been going to the same coffee shop in the city every day for five years, and
she had to tell them every day how she took her caffeine. Not for the first
time this morning, she questioned if she was doing the right thing to even
consider going back.
“I saw the look on your face as I got closer. The lake has that effect
on people.”
“I don’t know what you mean.”
“Sure you do.” He leaned a hip against the rail next to her and sipped
from the cup in his large hand. “I was simply passing though when I first
spotted that big black puddle. I sat on a rock and thought of things I hadn’t
wondered in years. Next thing I realize, five years had passed. I had a home I
didn’t know I wanted, and a family I wasn’t born to. You look too close and it will
make you question everything you think you know.”
“What if you don’t know the truth or have any answers to the question?”
“Then keep looking.”
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See Lars
loves to drop those little insightful gems on me here and there. He does it all
the time but when I try to make the big guy sit down for a moment and talk, he
sneaks away on those silent feet of his. Returning later, he’ll lean against
the corner of my mind and whisper encouragement as I work.
But his time
is ticking like a time bomb. I met a woman a few days ago and she has started
haunting my thoughts. She’s a sweet thing, curvy, lush and in desperate need of
a hero, even though she thinks I’m mad for suggesting it.
Ha! That’s
got the big man rushing for his Harley but he can race off as fast as he wants.
I’ve got the key to his heart in my hand and I’m about to hand it over to
someone else. ;)
Thank you Corinne...hmmm... I wouldn't mind having a hot Viking drop in on me every now and again. And I'd remember how he likes his coffee! Visit Corinne here (it's such a fun blog).
If you'd like to know which character haunts me...I'm on Lynn Hones's blog here
Hahahaha I wouldn't mind having him in my head. And instantly the male character living in mine protests. :-P
ReplyDeleteKeeps 'em on their toes to make 'em jealous, Misha!
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DeleteHi Sue! I loved this post. Sorry I am a bit late but I passed out when I saw Lars.
DeleteGood luck with your books, Corinne! Sue, your blog is lovely (although I was too dumb to find where to post a comment). Best to both of you. Thanks!
There was a typo in my first comment, so I corrected and re-posted1 ;-)
DeleteThanks for the comments ladies :) Lars is a big sweetheart but much too quiet. I've decided to use some reverse phsychocology on him and am concentrating on his heroine. We'll see that get's him talking :)
ReplyDeleteHi Gina! And Corinne, thanks for letting us meet Lars :-)
ReplyDeleteUh... what's the model's name?
ReplyDeleteUh... what's the model's name?
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