The Parchment Scroll
Highland Secrets #3
by C.A. Szarek
a Time Travel, Fantasy Romance
from Paper Dragon Publishing
*Can be read as a Standalone*
Book Three in the time travel, fantasy romance trilogy, Highland Secrets!
Her sister is lost…in the past.
Three weeks after her sister goes missing, Juliette McGowan encounters her on a beach in Scotland. Her sister gives her a scroll full of claims about time travel and disappears—literally. As a sister, Jules is determined to find her. As a cop, she can’t go to the authorities. The piece of parchment declares magic exists; they’d think she’s nuts. When a mysterious woman vows she can help her get to the seventeenth century, Jules goes along with it out of desperation.
He’s an infamous barbarian…
Hugh MacDonald is intrigued when he finds a disoriented naked lass on the beach. She holds a scroll that was written by his rival’s wife. Clan MacLeod will pay ransom for her safe return, so he takes her captive. She challenges his authority—and his desires. What started off as a plan to anger the MacLeods ends with Hugh wanting to keep her for himself. Can Jules break free of the barbarian, find her sister and return to the future or will she give in to her attraction and desire to remain in the past?
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EXCERPT From Chapter Fourteen…
THIS IS A HOT ONE!
“I’ll have ye, Juliette. I’ve though’ of nothin’ else since ye
left me.”
A shiver racked her frame. He felt it beneath his palms. She
swallowed and Hugh restrained himself from kissing her. “Then what?” she
whispered.
He leaned down and brushed his lips against hers. When Juliette
didn’t scoot away as expected, Hugh tugged her to him and took her mouth
properly. He pinned her to his chest and forced her mouth open, but like
before, she kissed him back.
Hugh slid his hands down the stiff material covering her back
and kept going, cupping and squeezing her perfect bottom with both hands. He
lifted her, rocking his pelvis into hers.
She yanked away all too soon, her scowl back in place. “No, Hugh.”
Juliette put her hand up. Her face was flushed and she panted, her perfect
breasts heaving in that corset. She might be denying him with words, but her
body wasn’t.
One look at her kiss-swollen lips made Hugh bite back a groan.
He was already hard and aching. He had to have her.
“We’ll speak in my rooms.” He pushed words out, but had to
clear his throat. His voice was thick, desire evident even to his own ears.
They’d do more than speak.
He just had to convince her.
Like he’d told her before, Hugh wouldn’t take Juliette by
force, but her shaking form said he wouldn’t have to.
He grabbed her waist and hauled her close again, then swung her
up over his shoulder without another word.
She yelped, hollered, and struggled, but she didn’t try to kick
or punch him like she had before.
Hugh hurried his step. He’d not want to gain his aunt’s
attention. As it was, he was lucky she hadn’t stormed the bailey when the
MacLeods had been at the gate.
Obviously word hadn’t traveled its usual speed at Armadale. He
had no doubt Mab would pound his doors down when she heard Juliette was here,
but Hugh would deal with it then.
Now is for Juliette.
“Put me down!”
He didn’t follow her order until they were shut inside his
quarters.
“You can’t just pick me up and carry me off every time we
disagree!” Juliette’s exasperation leaked into more than her voice. She threw
her arms wide and paced.
“Why no’?”
“Really?” She froze with that one word, a fair eyebrow arched.
His Juliette was gorgeous, and he enjoyed her temper. He closed
the distance between them and reached for her.
“No. Not again. Don’t you dare
put your hands on me.” His little lass’s glare could have slain him on the
spot.
Hugh flashed a lazy grin and twirled one of her honey-colored
locks around his finger. “Ye certainly liked my hands on ye a ’fore. Just now.
In mine own great hall.”
Juliette scowled. She put both hands to his chest and shoved.
He planted his booted feet and didn’t move an inch.
Their gazes collided. Her mouth parted and Hugh’s cock
twitched. His trek up the stairs with his lass over his shoulder had done
nothing to alleviate the heavy ache in his groin. He swallowed a groan and
yanked her to him.
Hugh dipped his head down, claiming her mouth and muffling her
yelp.
Instead of fighting him, Juliette slipped her arms around his
neck. She opened for him, whimpering as she kissed him back.
This is different from
the kiss in the great hall.
It was more. She was fully with him this time.
Triumph shot down his spine. He lifted her into his arms and
kissed her harder, squeezing her rear end as she wrapped her legs around his
waist. He damned her trews to hell and back. Had she been wearing skirts, he’d
already have his hands on her bare flesh.
She fired him in ways no other woman ever had. His cock was
hard and pulsing, demanding freedom so he could slip inside her sweet body.
Hugh had missed her over the last three days. Thought of
nothing but his foundling, his Juliette. And doing this. “Jesu, lass,” he
breathed into her mouth.
Juliette moaned and tilted her head back. He answered her
silent request and set a line of kisses on her neck, nipped her earlobe and she
wiggled against him.
“Hugh,” she breathed.
Her body was wrapped around his, her softness hitting his
hardness in all the right places. But they had too many clothes on.
“I willna take ye by force, lass. But by God, I burn fer ye.”
She whimpered.
He kissed her again, because he couldn’t not plunder her sweetness. Their tongues dueled. Juliette was
kissing him back just as fiercely as he pressed his lips to hers. Hugh slanted
his mouth over hers again and again.
His limbs shook, but he held onto her as tightly as she was
holding on to him.
Hugh needed more.
So much more.
Bestselling, award winning author of romantic suspense and epic fantasy romance, C.A. loves to dabble in different genres. If it's a good story, she'll write it, no matter where it seems to fit!
She's a hopeless romantic and always will be. Risking it all for Happily Ever After is what she lives by!
C.A. is originally from Ohio, but got to Texas as soon as she could. She's happily married and has a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice.
She works with kids when she's not writing.
Website: www.caszarek.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/caszarek
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/caszarek
Previous books in the series
The Tartan MP3 Player #1
Amazon: http://goo.gl/J9fI5u
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/411992
The Fae Ring #2
Amazon: http://goo.gl/CE6pRL
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/443799
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