I hope you have enjoyed Allie and Royce’s story as much as I have. They swept me away from the very start and I was sad to let them go, because I am a sucker for a super Alpha hero like Royce. For me, the harder the hero, the better!

I am currently working on Dark Embrace, Aidan’s story. He is not the man you met in Dark Seduction and Dark Rival. His son’s murder has turned him into something very dark, very tormented; an anti-hero teetering on the brink of evil. On the day that he committed evil in the hopes of saving young Ian, he turned against his vows, the Brotherhood and the gods. Now he is a Highlander with no clan, a mercenary with no soul, relentlessly hunting the deamham responsible for his son’s murder. It is what he lives for and nothing more. As I am sure you have guessed, that deamhan is none other than his own father, back from the vanquished—and Moray is hunting him as relentlessly and will stop at nothing to get even.

But Aidan’s torment is even greater than the loss of a child. Ian has hunted him for sixty-six years. Not a day goes by that he doesn’t glimpse his ghost—but only for a scant second, and then little Ian is gone. To make matters worse, no one has ever seen Ian’s ghost except for Aidan—until he takes Brianna Rose back to 1503 with him.

Brie, as you know, is a techno geek who hides behind baggy clothes and big eyeglasses, who has no personal life, and is probably the only twenty-six-year-old virgin in New York City. But she doesn’t care, because she is a Rose, and her life is fighting evil with her cousins Tabby and Sam, and her friend Kit Mars, while working for the HCU. She has had a very secret crush on Aidan ever since meeting him for all of five minutes in Dark Rival. She has other secrets of course—all the Rose woman do. She has the Sight and is a powerful empathy.

One September night, her life forever changes when roars of pain and anguish awaken her. Brie instantly knows it is Aidan being tortured, repeatedly, by a great evil. The torment is unbearable. Her cousins take her to CDA’s hospital unit, where she is sedated—and where she first sees a small boy, standing at the foot of her bed. When she is finally released, she rushes to her computer to try to find out what happened to Aidan. Instead of delving into HCU’s extensive database, she goes to old-fashioned history books and quickly learns about the merciless Wolf of Awe, a Highlander with no clan, a man universally feared and despised, who was hanged in 1502. His name is Aidan—but history claims he is so ruthless and savage, she knows this cannot be her Aidan! And in that very moment, she has a crystal clear vision of her Aidan in a stone effigy on his tomb. Brie is so distraught she leaves her loft. And evil is waiting for her…

Aidan has not rescued Innocence in sixty-six years. But when he hears Brie calling out to him in fear and pain, he does not hesitate to leap into the future to protect her. The moment he does so, his life will never be the same…

Brie is stunned by the changes in him. She is afraid of him. But she is determined to help him redeem himself, no matter the he doesn’t want redemption…

He only wants to hunt Moray, and the shapeless woman with ugly eyeglasses is in his way. She insists he has a soul—and he knows he does not. Even worse than that, she is in love with him—he has lurked. He only takes her into the past to annoy her boss ay HCU. He intends to send her back to her time as soon as she is strong enough to withstand another leap. But when he realizes she can see—Ian and communicate with him—she becomes the bridge to his son and his soul.

To learn more about Aidan, the Wolf of Awe, and the very brave, determined woman Brianna, and their tempestuous love story visit mastersoftimebooks.com

I look forward to seeing you again at Loch Awe in the fall of 1502.

Regards,