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Authors: Roxanne St. Claire
Tags: #Romance, #General, #Contemporary, #Fiction / Romance - Contemporary, #Fiction
Barefoot in the Sand (49 page)
Dear Reader,
I’ve been reading romances for as long as I can remember, going back to when I was twelve and read and re-read
Wuthering Heights
all summer long. At one point the librarian told me I could not take the book out again since other people needed a chance to read it!
Denied my broody Heathcliff and doomed Catherine, I turned my attentions to what some might say were an odd mix: Shakespeare and Ian Fleming.
It’s safe to say that those choices as a young reader were later reflected in what I wrote, especially in THE CLAIMED, the second book in the Sin Hunters series.
Action. Adventure. Angst. I’ve incorporated all those elements that I love into this tale of a determined and broody alpha hero, Christopher Sombrosa, and a woman
who is the absolute wrong choice for him, Victoria Johnson.
So why is Victoria
not
the woman for Christopher? Think Romeo and Juliet, Capulet and Montague.
Victoria is destined to be the leader of her Light Hunter clan, while Christopher is not only one of the Dark Ones, he is likewise supposed to assume command of his Shadow Hunter people.
Add to the mix some rather nefarious villains in the form of Christopher’s father and ex-fiancée and the betrayal of someone dear to Victoria, and I think you’ll find THE CLAIMED will keep you turning pages until the very end.
I am very glad to say, however, that despite the hopeless Catherine, Juliet, and assorted Bond girls who could never win James’s heart, there is a path to a new and exciting place for Christopher and Victoria.
I hope you will enjoy their fight for a better tomorrow for not only themselves, but their race of Hunters.
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Barefoot in the Rain
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Copyright © 2012 by Roxanne St. Claire
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ISBN 978-1-4555-0822-8
