The Color of Vengeance
The Dragon's Dove Chronicles
(standalone excerpt from Book 2, Morning's Journey)
by Kim Iverson Headlee
GENRE – Early Medieval Historical Fiction
PUBLICATION DATE – August 2013
SYNOPSIS
Vengeance was the only burial gift he could bestow.
When Angli cattle thieves slaughter his wife and son,
Dwras son of Gwyn vows revenge upon
their murderers.
But how can a mere farmer prevail against ruthless,
trained warriors?
For the
answer Dwras must look not to his sword,
but within his heart.
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EXCERPT
Dwras jabbed the offending warrior on the shoulder. With a grunt, the man swung his head around to fix narrow eyes upon him.
“What d’ye want?”
“My seat. I want it back.” Dwras lowered his eyebrows. “Now!”
“You—what?” The Lothian warrior’s laughter nearly made him choke. A grinning companion slapped his back.
“Oho, Farmer Dwras thinks he’s one of us, lads,” chortled another warrior, making a shooing motion. “Be off with you! Back to your pigs, farmer boy.”
They burst into cackles, hoots, and hog calls. Dwras felt his cheeks flush.
The warrior in Dwras’s seat found himself buried under sops and ale.
“My mistake, sir.” He grinned devilishly. “I thought this was the sty.”
MY THOUGHTS
I went into this book expecting more of a fantasy element than a “knights in armor” element. But, that being said, I still enjoyed the book. It was well done and I didn’t find any issues with the work at all. I think that it is a book that anyone who likes knights, will LOVE.
MEET THE AUTHOR
Kim Headlee lives on a farm in southwestern Virginia with her family, cats, goats, Great Pyrenees goat guards, and assorted wildlife. People and creatures come and go, but the cave and the 250 yearold house ruins—the latter having been occupied as recently as the midtwentieth century— seem to be sticking around for a while yet.
Kim is a Seattle native and a direct descendent of twentiethcentury Russian nobility. Her
grandmother was a childhood friend of the doomed Grand Duchess Anastasia, and the romantic
yet tragic story of how Lydia escaped Communist Russia with the aid of her American husband
will most certainly one day fuel one of Kim’s novels. Another novel in the queue will involve her
husband’s ancestor, the seventhcentury protoViking king of the Swedish colony in Russia.
For the time being, however, Kim has plenty of work to do in creating her projected 8book
Arthurian series, The Dragon’s Dove Chronicles, and other novels under her imprint, Pendragon
Cove Press. She has been a published novelist since 1999, beginning with the original editions of
Dawnflight (Sonnet Books, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0671020412) and Liberty (writing as
Kimberly Iverson, HQN Books, Harlequin, ISBN 0373771347).
WHERE TO FIND HER
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