Hers to Claim by Patricia A Knight‏

Patricia A. Knight is the pen name for an eternal romantic who lives in Dallas, Texas with her horses, Italian Greyhounds, "Gidget the Rescue Chihuahua"—and the best man on the face of the earth—oh yeah, and the most enormous bullfrogs you will ever see.

Word to the wise: don’t swim in the pool after dark.

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A prince from the Nyth Uchel mountains … a healer from the Oshtech desert …

Scornfully rejected by her desert lover and uncertain of her place in the world, Adonia traveled a perilous road to the fabled mountain-city of Nyth Uchel. She came to heal the sick and dying, but in the arms of highborn prince, Hel, Adonia found the answer to saving herself.

Descended from nobility, once great kings of Verdantia, Hel willingly bore the burden of his dying city and its people on his shoulders. Watching helplessly as a malingering evil attacked the very soil under his feet, he crushed his pride to summon help. He’d been staggered to discover the answer to saving his city and perhaps all Verdantia might lie behind a heavy fall of chocolate hair and shy brown eyes.

As their entire planet faces an encroaching black death, two seemingly disparate individuals forge a partnership of love and sacrifice that will alter their future forever. All of Verdantia will be tested.

Stand alone. Not a cliff-hanger. HEA 360 pages. M/F, Mild D/s themes, light spanking, and an over-sexed but sensitive prince with a hero complex.

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Q) What inspired you to write this story?
My husband and I were vacationing in Yellowstone National Park. During one of our conversations about how incredible the park was and how hardy and brave the original settlers must have been, he suggested I make one of my heroes a “mountain man.” Of course, I deal with a futuristic world, so I took some liberties, but my hero and the setting in Hers To Claim, was born from my husband’s suggestion that I use a “Grizzly Adams” type for my next book.

Q) How long did it take you to write?
Eight months. Of course, this was interrupted with some of life’s “events” – LOL. I had a brief hospital stay in the middle of writing, which delayed progress by several months.

Q) What is your favorite thing about writing?
I love the people that it brings me into contact with—my readers, my critique partners—whoever loves a good story. Sharing our thoughts about stories and concepts invigorates my writing and they are just good folks.

Q) What is your least favorite thing about writing?
MARKETING!!! LOL I suck at it. I think I would happily stay holed up in my office typing away until I turned into dust. But, my publisher would have problems with that.

Q) If you could be any famous person for one day, who would you be and why?
I know this sounds terribly self-serving and as if I am ducking the question, but I would not ever want to be famous, and I feel sorry for those who are. I cherish my privacy and am too selfish to want to have to answer to the demands that fame and fortune place on you. The simple fact that someone IS famous is enough to make me never want to be them.

I remember when a well-known person came into the office where I was working (this was some years ago). The entire office clustered around this individual asking for autographs, etc. You know where I was? Walking out the door, embarrassed for the people in my office and feeling like someone should apologize to him for their behavior. I sound like a complete ass don’t I? LOL Oh, well.

I suppose I would love to have the talents of a famous musician or writer…but I would NOT want the fame that attended.

Q) What is the oldest thing in your fridge and how old is it?
HA!!! I just cleaned out my refrigerator, so the oldest thing in it is some white chedar cheese from Wisconsin that purports to be 10 years old. After that it is a leek that has sat in the veggie drawer for a couple of days.

Q) What can readers expect from you in the future?
I hope to finish Hers To Claim by the end of the year and in the meantime will have a couple of short stories that I’ll be offering to my email subscribers for free. One will deal with two characters from Hers To Cherish, Ramsey and Steffania, and another story will be about a young woman who has joined the Verdantian diplomatic corps, entitled, “Darla and the Xerion.”

Hers To Command by Patricia A. Knight‏

Patricia A. Knight is the pen name for an eternal romantic who lives in Dallas, Texas surrounded by her horses, dogs and the best man on the face of the earth – oh yeah, and the most enormous bullfrogs you will ever see. Word to the wise: don’t swim in the pool after dark.

I love to hear from my readers and can be reached at http://www.trollriverpub.com/ or http://www.patriciaaknight.com

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Conte Camliel Aristos deTano, Ari, has long spurned the marriage forced upon him. Princess Fleur Constante, his contractual bride and the beautiful future queen, though young and inexperienced, is willing to risk everything – including her own sanity – to save her planet.

The inhabitants of the sentient planet, Verdantia, are poised on the precipice of extinction following a brutal invasion by an off-world, nomadic horde. Verdantia’s capital, Sylvan Mintoth, must have its failing energy shield restored, or the planet is doomed. The Elders know the shield can draw energy from only one thing—a very arduous and grueling coupling of two specific people pre-chosen by the planet, Herself, and promised by prearranged marriage contract.

Verdantia draws strength from the duo, but the sentient planet whispers to Ari that a third is necessary – Ari’s aide de camp, Visconte Doral deLorion, an angelically handsome, skilled assassin who silently surrendered his heart to Ari long ago.

The trio struggles to make this surprising partnership harmonious, pushing through pride, scars of past abuse, fears of inexperience and distrust. To save Verdantia, they must overcome their individual weaknesses and realize their full potential. Only the tetriarch and their combined synergy, can harness Verdantia’s immense power to shield its citizens from invasion.

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Question: What inspired you to write this story?
I love epic fantasy and sci-fi, and I have a highly developed “prurient interest” in the heroes and heroines of the books I read. I totally wanted Aragorn to shag Arwen . . . and I want all the graphic details, please. Unfortunately, J.R. Tolkien closed the bedroom door quite firmly and kept his lips buttoned as to what went on. Sigh. After reading enough of these sorts of epic fantasies and sci-fi’s, I decided to write my own where the bedroom doors were left open and everyone “kissed and told.” Hence, my stories of brave men and women who “get their freak” on and invite the reader to watch.

Question: How long did it take you to write?
Three years. Don’t laugh. It really did. But then, Hers To Command started life as a short story – and then got to be a very long story – and then got shortened again. I could talk for hours on what I have learned about writing in the last three years. But I have learned. The next two books took me six months from conception to publication and my critique partners and publisher tell me they are better books.

Question: What is your favorite thing about writing?
My readers. I wriggle like a puppy when I hear that they loved Doral or were moved by something in the book. Seriously – I wriggle – in my seat – like a puppy.

Question: What is your least favorite thing about writing?
When a reader hates my book and posts a bad review because they don’t like male on male scenes or the graphic sex when it states quite clearly on the cover blurb that this is an erotic novel with male/male/female sex. Why did they read it? And then why did they feel compelled to give it a bad review? I get that not everyone is going to like my stories. I can live with that. But, please! “Don’t like them” for a good reason. If you are going to take a walk on the wild side, don’t penalize the author because it upset your apple cart.

Question: If you could be any famous person for one day, who would you be and why?
Bill Gates. I’d love to have enough money to give millions and millions of dollars away to charity. Just think of how much good you could do in the world.

Question: What is the oldest thing in your fridge and how old is it?
Umm . . . as I stand here looking at the Tupperware container, I’m not really sure what it used to be. Currently, it is a fuzzy, lime-green blob with black and orange spots. It is definitely of other-worldly origin and I deny any knowledge of how it got into my fridge. I submit that my fridge has been visited by creatures from a distant planet and they left their lunch. That’s my story and I’m sticking with it.

Question: What can readers expect from you in the future?
Well-crafted characters and fast moving storylines full of scorching hot sex. I promise books that will move and entertain you even if you took all the sex out! But, of course, since I’m writing them . . . [smiles and hoists her coffee-cup] . . . I won’t.

Patricia Knight