Blog Tour {Excerpts & Giveaway}—The MacCoinnich Time Travel Trilogy by Catherine Bybee
Continuing The MacCoinnich Time Travel Trilogy blog tour, organized by Bewitching Book Tours, we have excerpts from all three books. Catherine Bybee is also giving away a $10 Amazon gift card! Click on the bookcovers to see the respective summaries and excerpts, and be sure to scroll to the bottom for the giveaway. Good luck, and happy reading!
Binding Vows Catherine Bybee Book #1 of MacCoinnich Time Travel series
Publication: January 2013 (Second Edition), December 4th 2009 by The Wild Rose Press (First Edition)
Genre: Paranormal Historical Romance
Duncan MacCoinnich’s task… Travel to the twenty-first century Renaissance Faire, deflower the Druid virgins, and go home. Only his job is not so easily accomplished with the virgin in question, Tara McAllister. Time is running out. The evil is closing in on them both.
Tara finds Duncan irresistible after what was supposed to be a mock Hand-fasting binds them. When Duncan whisks her to his home in Scotland she could accept that. But, can she forgive him for taking away her modern life when she finds herself in the sixteenth century? And is it love they feel? Or something else?
"Where are you going, Tara?"
"Out."
"I can see that, but where?"
She stopped and turned. "Far away from you."
He almost collided with her. Before he could react, she was storming off again as he shouted, "A lady is not safe out here by herself."
She stopped again. This time he didn't stop in time and fell into her.
Hands at her sides, her chest thrust up next to his; she gritted the words between her teeth. "A lady isn't safe around you, either."
"Now, Tara." He tried pleading with her.
"Oh, don't you even, 'now, Tara' me." She stepped to the side and started off in a different direction. Walking in circles.
He let her walk for several minutes before attempting to talk to her again. "I would be happy to escort you on a walk, but we need to get you more properly dressed." He knew the effect watching her walk was having on him. He could only imagine what his men must have thought when she had
stormed the courtyard in her shorts.
"You're a bastard, you know that, MacCoinnich?"
He wanted to counter what she said but cautioned himself against it.
"Still, we need you in more fitting clothes. If someone were to come along, questions would be raised which would be most difficult to answer."
"You should have thought of that before you brought me here." She waved a hand in his general direction. "Right now I don't give a crap what questions you might have to answer."
"I told you how necessary it is for secrecy." He turned to the Keep and noticed some of the men watching to see what would happen. He needed to put a stop to this and soon.
"Bite me."
A completely inappropriate image of him doing exactly that popped in his head. A slow lazy smile inched over his lips.
Unfortunately for him, Tara read his thoughts. "You ass." She raised her hand to slap his face.
He caught her hand before it made contact. "I've had enough of this."
Silent Vows Book #2 of the MacCoinnich Time Travel series
Publication: January 13th 2013 (Second Edition)
August 31st 2010 by The Wild Rose Press (First Edition)
Myra, a medieval virgin druidess, flees five hundred years into the future to escape death at the hands of a cursed witch and lands in the arms of a handsome but cynical twenty-first century cop. Officer Todd Blakely knows Myra is hiding something, but can't resist her innocent charms. Destiny throws them both into a world of intrigue and mysticism. Can Todd be the true white knight she needs? Or will magic and the winds of time tear them apart?
"I want you," he whispered in her hair, not willing to break their contact.
She stiffened when his words registered. "I don't—"
"You want the same thing, Myra. Don't try and deny it."
"I don't know what I want. I've not ever ..." She didn't finish her sentence.
"Not ever what?"
"No one has ever kissed me the way you do. Let alone anything more."
A virgin? Was that even possible? "You mean you've never ...?"
"Never." She lowered her head and removed her hands from his shoulders.
"Hey." He caught her gaze. "It's nothing to be embarrassed about." He kissed her again, briefly, then placed a protective arm over her shoulders and walked her home. "So are the men in Scotland blind?"
She laughed. "Nay."
"What then?"
"My father is very protective."
"Does your father know you're here?"
"Much to his dismay, but we had no choice."
Interesting, a protective father who sent his daughter away to a different country without any money. Something wasn't lining up.
They were within a block of his home when Myra stiffened, and all color washed from her face. She stopped and spun in a slow circle.
"What is it?"
"Someone is watching us."
"Some of the neighbors are busybodies."
"No, Todd. The one who watches wants more than to gossip."
Now the hair on his neck stood on end.
Redeeming Vows Book #3 of the MacCoinnich Time Travel series
Publication: January 2013 (Second Edition)
For her own safety, modern day, single mom, Lizzy McAllister is forced to bow to the medieval men who surround her when she's thrust back in time to the sixteenth century against her will. When Lizzie finds herself trapped in time with Fin, the one man she finds both irresistible and maddening, she agrees to combine forces with him to rid Scotland of the evil witch, Grainna. Finlay MacCoinnich's attraction to Lizzie sizzles the very air they breathe. Tearing down the solid walls the woman has built around her won't be easy, but he's willing to do anything to keep her by his side. When a spell cast by their deadliest foe throws them forward in time, will they manage to find their way back in time to save their family from peril? And will Lizzy willingly stay in his time, or abandon him altogether?
Her next two punches came fast, unexpected, one catching him hard on the jaw. And it hurt. His brow rose. The muscles straining on her arms held surprising strength.
Fin sent his foot out to trip her.
She avoided it and waved him toward her. "Come on, Fin. Stop playing."
He turned his back to her, heard her approach, and swept her off her feet ... Within ten minutes, they were both panting. Liz's punch wavered. Fin caught her fist and pulled it behind her back and her firmly up against his chest. Her breasts heaved, and her breathing strained. The soft curves of her body pressed to his. Liz reached up to the arm he used to hold her and called her Druid powers. Fin felt his skin burn under her touch ...
"Not fair, lass."
"Ever hear the term, all's fair in love and war?"
Aye, well, what were they?
When she came at him again he ducked, taking her down to the floor and grabbed her hands and stretched them above her head where she couldn't apply any fire or heat because her fingertips weren't touching him. Her eyes met his, his body heavy on top of hers, keeping her from moving. But this closeness, this contact was torture.
Elizabeth's gaze traveled to his lips dancing dangerously close to hers. He smelled the sweet scent of her breath, knew without a doubt she desired his taste as much as he did hers. He knew that taste, had it once before, briefly. Wanted it even more now.
"You're quite a workout," she breathed the words to him, lifted her lips a tad closer.
"As are you."
They lay there, staring at each other, neither willing to make the first move.
New York Times bestselling author Catherine Bybee was raised in Washington State, but after graduating high school, she moved to Southern California in hopes of becoming a movie star. After growing bored with waiting tables, she returned to school and became a registered nurse, spending most of her career in urban emergency rooms. She now writes full-time and has penned the novels Wife by Wednesday and Married by Monday. Bybee lives with her husband and two teenage sons in Southern California.
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