SCARLETT VALENTINE was born and raised in Northern
California in an area known as America's Salad Bowl. It was home
to many authors, including John Steinbeck, and for a while Jack
London and Robert Louis Stevenson.
In 1997, Scarlett had the opportunity to travel to Ireland
on an extended holiday. She met a man and stayed. Celebrating
more than fifteen years in Ireland, she has traveled the country
extensively and has lived in Dublin, Cork, Wicklow and Kildare, and loving every minute of it.
Scarlett has always enjoyed writing. Her professional writing
life began as a book reviewer in 1995 and has published travel
articles since 1998.
She's an avid castle hunter and photographer so it's no wonder
castles show up in a lot of her stories. She loves travel and
research, both of which give Scarlett ideas for her stories.
If all this sounds familiar, it's because Scarlett is the erotica
alter ego of traditional romance novelist, Kemberlee Shortland.
Tirgearr Publishing is the proud home of Scarlett's unique
erotica series, The ABCs of S-E-X: Love by the Letter. Her first
title,
Awakening, was released October 2011 (Night Owl
Reviews Top Pick Award).
Check out Scarlett's website to learn more about this series.
AWAKENING, book one, The ABCs of S-E-X: Love by the Letter
Ysbail of Ellesmere is a pawn in her guardian's war. For
decades there has been unrest between the marcher lords and
Owain Gwynedd ap Gruffydd, King of Gwynedd. The most recent
war had been the bloodiest she could remember in her eighteen
years. Madog ap Maredudd, Prince of Powys, and his allies lost
untold numbers of men at the hands of Owain's soldiers. When
a settlement of truce is presented to Madog, it's at Ysbail's
expense. She is to marry Bedwyr ap Owain, one of King Owain’s
bastard sons, and his most notorious henchman. If all the rumors
and stories she's heard are true, she knows her marriage will
be rife with horror and fear.
Since proving himself worthy with his sword, Bedwyr fights
at his king's side. He's shed oceans of blood and sent untold
numbers of men to their graves. He's become what his name foretold—the
grave-knower. He's afraid of nothing, least of all death. All
men fear him, including those who fight at his side, and sometimes
even his own king. Terror of him lives within women's hearts;
only the bravest of whores accept him into their beds. And children
weave their own tales of the monster they hear him to be, embellishing
the details to their own gruesome degrees.
When King Owain informs Bedwyr that he's to marry Ysbail
of Ellesmere as part of a peace settlement with Madog, Bedwyr
is furious. A man such as Bedwyr can only survive on the battlefield.
For without love, hatred will send a man like him to the edge
of insanity. Then push him over. But when Bedwyr sees Ysbail
for the first time, blood-thirst turns to blood-lust, and he
vows to show her that she should have no fear of him.
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