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Guardians of Light by Renee Wildes is a Fantasy Romance whose latest releases today.
A Guardian’s Heart ~ Guardians of Light Book 1
Strength
can be drawn from pain…if the heart can heal faster than it bleeds.
Dara Khan Androcles was trained from childhood to
be a healer. But as a demon-possessed invader threatens Safehold, and she
defends a wounded warrior on the battlefield, her hidden inner dragon thirsts
for blood.
When she lifts the warrior’s blond, blood-encrusted
hair away from his ear, she discovers he is more than King Hengist’s outlander
ally. He is an immortal. The elven heir to the throne of Cymry.
Loren ta Cedric senses something different about
flame-haired, falcon-eyed woman who saves him. A healer, wreathed in raw, dark
power, who wields knives with deadly skill. A mortal who prays to the Lady, not
the human gods. Now he owes this thoroughly distracting female a Life-Debt.
Which, in the heat of their flight to Loren’s homeland to raise an army,
somehow becomes Life-Mate.
Dragon-human and elf, peasant and prince, logic
says they have no future. Yet the power of their unlikely bond could be the
only thing that saves their world from a demon poised to tear it apart.
Warning: This new twist on Cinderella contains a
grouchy dragon, a sentient war mare with the dry wit of a certain English Dame,
and a fiery heroine who strikes serious sparks with a mercenary elf.
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A Guardian’s Hope ~ Guardians of Light Book 2
As a
child, invaders butchered Maleta’s parents and left her ravaged body for dead.
Now, reborn as a finely-honed weapon for the Gray Goddess, Maleta has shed the
burden of emotions for one goal—regain her homeland for her brother.
Cianan ta Daneal’s mission to the fractured land of
Shamar is twofold: to overthrow a despotic queen, and to save a life. For
months, he’s been haunted by recurring visions of a beautiful swordswoman
slaughtered by a skeleton army. He never expected to lay eyes on that woman and
recognize her as his Lifemate—or that she’d turn and run like hell.
Uniting Shamar’s diverse peoples in revolt is easy
compared to the delicate task of wooing a woman who flinches from his touch.
Slowly, Maleta dares to hope that her country,
what’s left of her family, and her shattered heart are safe in Cianan’s steady
hands. But when the cold blade of fate strikes true, can she trust his love is
strong enough to pull her back from the Abyss?
Warning: This new twist on Sleeping Beauty contains
an assassin nun who knows no fear. Okay, just one fear, but it’s a biggie. And
an Elven paladin with the Devil’s own negotiating skills. To coax her heart out
of hiding, he’s gonna need every one of them.
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A Guardian Revealed ~ Guardians of Light Book 3
Years
ago, the pull of the full moon and a powerful curiosity drew Finora into a
human fisherman’s bed—a man who stole her selkie skin and took its location to
his grave. For seven years, trapped on land, she has searched fruitlessly. Hope
fading with every passing year.
Tasked with finding and returning dragons to his
mountain homeland in the east, Trystan follows a slim lead westward across an
unfamiliar sea. When pirates attack his ship, leaving him with injuries too
severe for his werewolf to heal, he comes face to face with the most unexpected
of rescuers—Finora, her two, half-human children, and the biggest damned dog
he’s ever seen.
Tristan and Finora’s attraction is instant,
undeniable, and hopeless. Finora is pulled to the sea, Tristan is tied to the
land. But Finora can help him complete his mission, and share one night of
searing, heartbreaking passion. And memories only the deepest of betrayals
could shatter…
Warning: Contains Celtic legends, seven-year
curses, dragons with bad attitudes, imperiled children, a grumpy sea goddess,
and wave upon wave of soul-searing pleasure.
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A Guardian’s Dream ~ Guardians of Light Book 4
Plagued
with nightmares of a goblin child tormented by monsters—and with her usual
cures having no effect—dream faerie Pryseis journeys to the Shadowlands to heal
the child in person even though doing so risks the wrath of the faerie council.
And, if she’s away from home too long, her very existence.
Caught and imprisoned by an ungrateful goblin
sorcerer, she’s now trapped underground, chained, her despair growing as her
time ticks down yet warmed by the memory of a man she has only touched in
dreams.
Benilo ta Myran drained his spirit healing powers
during the war, but he has no choice. The beautiful faerie in his dreams is in
trouble, and not even his worried king and queen can stop him from trying to
save her before the darkness snuffs out her light.
Finally they are together—chained side-by-side in a
goblin dungeon. Their only hope for escape is to break the law to merge their
powers in a ritual so intensely erotic it binds them for life. However short
and nightmarish that life might be…
Warning:
Beware beautiful faeries and hot elves appearing in
your dreams. They may lead you astray…and steal your heart.
A Guardian’s Destiny ~ Guardians of Light Book 5
On what should have been Verdeen’s proudest day, she is blocked from advanced warrior training because no war mare chooses to bond with her. Burning with humiliation, she accepts a lesser assignment to the Isle of Ice, serving as bodyguard to human riever, Daq Aryk.
Verdeen’s never paid much attention to men, so focused was she on her training. But she quickly realizes hieing off into a distant wilderness with Aryk is a bad idea. He makes her lose all focus and perspective.
Aryk faces a difficult task: molding six warring clans into a peaceful whole. He’s got nothing against women warriors, but Verdeen is young and inexperienced, her beauty a potentially fatal distraction. She’s a shield-maiden, not a bedmate. But the way she melts at his every touch erodes all his good intentions…and sense.
One kiss unleashes the kind of feverish desire that should occur only once in a lifetime—with a mate. But as their quest takes ever more dangerous twists and turns, their bond could be the one thing that unites a nation. Or make Aryk’s worst nightmare a blood-soaked reality.
Warning:Contains fire and ice, ever-gratuitous sex and violence, sword play and self-play, spying and lying, noble intentions and betrayal. In other words, a rollicking good roll in the proverbial hay.
Aryk’s mother, Gefjun, greeted him at the entrance to the village. Leave it to her not to stay hidden as ordered. Her calloused, scarred hands crossed her swords over her belly. Silver braids encircled her head like a crown. His red seeker dog, Fiske, sat at her feet, plumed tail sweeping the trampled snow.
“Stand down, Mother.” Aryk bent to rub the dog’s pricked ears. “’Tis safe for them to come out now. We held the wolves at bay.”
“Pity.” Her green eyes glittered in the twilight as she sheathed her swords and whistled the all clear. “I rather anticipated a good fight. Been too long.”
Not long enough. “The children?”
“Safe, although Joro snagged a knife to go help you.”
The women and children emerged from their homes, looking around for familiar faces. Uncertainty and fear lingered in the air. ’Twas no way to live.
“Tell me you disarmed him.” Aryk shuddered at the notion of his mischievous five-year-old son in the conflict.
Stuffed with grand tales of heroic warriors by his mother, Dagmar, Joro yearned to join the men. Aryk pictured his sole surviving heir lying dead on some future battlefield, those sparkling blue eyes forever vacant. A nightly terror.
Nay, he’d find a way to end this madness. Joro and the other children would enjoy a better life than their parents, with more options than raiding, bloodshed, and death. Nice, long, peaceful lives.
“Acourse I disarmed him. Come.” Even a daq heeded her tone.
He followed her through the milling flocks to her sod-and-stone round hut, dropping the hide door covers for privacy. Smoke from the peat fire undulated around him. He took the cup of schnae she held out, let the bite of the spirits clear the melancholic fog. “I’ve but a moment. We go to Ulryk’s village.”
“How’d the men take the news?”
“They don’t get to enjoy the spoils of war?” He grunted. “How do you think?”
“Find Ulryk’s captive Shamaru lass from my vision and bring her here. Make no mistake—allow your men free rein and lose your one hope of success.”
Hope. Such a frail, mighty word. “You’re certain we’ve still hope for peace? Even after today? Daq Beloq comes south with the thaw. This year decides it.”
“There’s always hope. If we continue as we are, we destroy ourselves. Things must change. Shamar can help us.” His mother studied him across the undying flame, the hearth fire that never went out. “We can’t keep burning our dead children.”
The flames danced in the dark as he weighed her truth. The fire kept the dwelling livable, an oasis of warmth on a wind-blasted plain of bone-shattering cold. But ’twas more. The light in the darkness symbolized the stand of reason against savagery.
“We can be better men than we are now. Myrtaq died for naught than a senseless raid like the one today. ’Tis no honor in it.”
The younger brother he failed to protect. How many more must they burn, lose to battle, disease, privation? When would the body count be too high?
“I miss him too. The pain of losing a son never fades.”
How well he understood her truth. Two lads and a lass he lost before the age of three, ’til but Joro and Birgit remained.
Joro lying in a pool of his own blood, slain with his own sword…wielded by a black-haired woman with one green eye and one brown eye…
Gefjun cleared her throat, jerking Aryk back to the present. “When you reach Ulryk’s village and find this Shamaru woman I spoke of, how will you get her to listen to, much less trust, you?”
“I’ll prove to her I’m naught like Ulryk.” Gods, he wanted a bath. He reeked of battle, of blood, sweat, and spent rage, but Ulryk’s village beckoned.
Gefjun’s eyes blazed as she pinned him with her gaze, held him as she circled the fire to within a handspan of his face. “You’re exactly like him, born and bred of this land.” She spun away. “You hide it better than most.”
Her truth cut him to the heart. Hai, lia sang fierce, an elation during battle which blocked all else. It flowed in his blood, through his bones. Lia replaced pain, fear, doubt.
Men who succumbed to that sweet siren song lost all reason, as apt to turn on their comrades as the enemy. As savage as wounded snow bears. Aryk stared at the flames, tossed back the last of the schnae, then rose to his feet.
Men were more.
He was more.
Time to prove it. To his men, to himself. To the rest of the clans on Isadorikja, this frozen iceberg of an island. Mayhap someday to the rest of the world.
A man had to believe in his dreams. What else was there?
“Stovak nos briel, Warrior.” Gefjun held open the door.
Destiny awaits.
About the Author
Award-winning WI author Renee Wildes grew up reading fantasy authors Terry Brooks & Mercedes Lackey. A Joseph Campbell fan, when she discovered romance novels she was fated to write fantasy romance. A mythology & history buff, from ancient Sparta through the Dark Ages, a Navy brat and a cop’s kid, she gravitated to protector/guardian heroes & heroines. She’s had horses her whole life, becoming the only vet tech in a family of nurses. It all comes together in her Guardians of Light series for Champagne Book Group and her paranormal title “Marek’s New World” for Tirgearr Publishing – fantasy, action, romance, heroics and lots of critters!
Hi Renee and thank you for being here!
Can you, for those who don’t know you already, tell something about how you became an author?
Mine is the most awkward story imaginable! My first book, originally entitled “Duality,” was literally born from a single image in my head of a red-haired woman standing in a burning tower. When I learned she STARTED the fire, I knew I had to tell her story. (half-dragon fire mage) It did well in 2004 RWA contests, and I pitched it to Angela James (w/Samhain back then) at the 2005 NJ PYHIAB Conference. While pitching I dropped all my cheat-sheet index cards under the table and had to crawl after them to pick them up! (She let me start over, asked some very pointed questions, and requested the full manuscript) And when I was doing my query letter to Samhain my cat Chandra walked across the computer keyboard and SENT half an unsigned query letter with NO attachments! I had to resend with a cringy “please ignore the first version” and thought I was a goner. I got a contract offer from editor Linda Ingmanson. (turns out she breeds Ragdoll cats and we had a good laugh over my unique journey). It was the first of a series of seven titles in my Guardians of Light series.
What is something unique/quirky about you?
I’m a Navy brat, a cop’s kid, and the only vet tech in a family of nurses
Tell us something really interesting that’s happened to you!
I recently became a first-time grandma – my grandson Roman was born 8/20/19
Who are your heroes and why?
Steve Irwin—and now his kids Bindi & Robert—because they are driven and passionate about saving wildlife and the environment
Josh Gates—because he makes history/archaeology interesting and understandable, he always keeps an open mind and his sense of humor, and especially because of his respect to the native people/cultures he encounters on his journeys (I got to meet him when he came to Milwaukee, WI on speaking tour—he bought GS cookies from a kid in the third row b/c she asked him to in the Q&A session at the end)
What are you passionate about these days?
Recycling, Conservation, Historical Preservation, Adopt-Don’t-Shop, Chow-Chow Advocacy
What do you do to unwind and relax?
Walk the dog, Sit on the porch and watch thunderstorms, Horseback riding, Scrapbook, Read, Watch movies
Describe yourself in 5 words or less!
Emotional, Temperamental, Loyal, Optimistic, Creative
Do you have a favorite movie?
Can’t pick just one! My Top 5 are Last of the Mohicans, Rob Roy, Ladyhawke, Willow, and Princess Bride
Which of your novels can you imagine made into a movie?
A Guardian’s Heart (formerly Duality), Guardians of Light Book 1—lots of drama & action
Elves, dragons, demons, medieval setting, lots of magic & battles
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