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The Challenge
SERIES – The Dragon’s Dove Chronicles
AUTHOR – Kim Iverson Headlee
GENRE – Historical Fantasy w/Romantic Elements
PUBLICATION DATE – 7/14/2015
LENGTH (Pages/# Words) – 24 pages/6K words
PUBLISHER – Pendragon Cove Press
COVER ARTIST – Natasha Brown
The gauntlet is thrown. One must die. Refusal is not an option.
Arthur the High King of Breatein has fallen captive of a longtime enemy, the Saxon warrior-princess Camilla, who lusts to avenge the death of her betrothed at Gyan’s hands and will stop at nothing, even the black arts, to achieve her goal. Because Gyan and Arthur have grown estranged, she fears that Arthur may side with Camilla and make her his new queen.
To meet Camilla’s challenge, Gyan must face all her demons—public as well as private.
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Excerpt
With a shudder Gyan recalled the rumor that Camilla had enlisted demonic aid…
She banished those thoughts, and their attendant fears, by pondering the irony that Camilla had tried to strike at her through Arthur. It might have worked, once.
The passion that had colored the early years of their marriage was still celebrated in song throughout Breatein and Caledon.
These days, she wasn’t singing.
My Review
The Challenge was a quick read, about 24 pages, just right for fitting in before my Tackle TBR challenge started; it was most enjoyable. Ms Headlee really brings Arthurian times to life without the tedious detail I’ve seen in other books. The setting was good, the story arc worked well (I’ve been having trouble with that in my longer short stories recently!) and the characters well-rounded. It makes me want to read more of the Dragon’s Dove Chronicles, which must be a plus, since there are far too many King Arthur books around at present!
About the author
Kim Headlee lives on a farm in southwestern Virginia with her family, cats, goats, Great Pyrenees goat guards, and assorted wildlife. People and creatures come and go, but the cave and the 250-year-old house ruins—the latter having been occupied as recently as the mid-twentieth century—seem to be sticking around for a while yet.
Kim is a Seattle native and a direct descendant of twentieth-century Russian nobility. Her grandmother was a childhood friend of the doomed Grand Duchess Anastasia, and the romantic yet tragic story of how Lydia escaped Communist Russia with the aid of her American husband will most certainly one day fuel one of Kim’s novels. Another novel in the queue will involve her husband’s ancestor, the seventh-century proto-Viking king of the Swedish colony in Russia.
For the time being, however, Kim has plenty of work to do in creating her projected 8-book Arthurian series, The Dragon’s Dove Chronicles, and other novels clamoring for attention. She has been a published novelist since 1999, beginning with the original editions of Dawnflight (Sonnet Books, Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0671020412) and Liberty (writing as Kimberly Iverson, HQN Books, Harlequin, ISBN 0373771347).
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GIVEAWAY PRIZES
INTERNATIONAL:
5 x e-books (winners’ choice of Kim’s books)
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US ONLY: 1 autographed print copy of Dawnflight
Thank you for your lovely review of THE CHALLENGE, which is a free Kindle download worldwide now till 18 Sept. 2015 — and thank you for all the social media shares!
Kim Headlee
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I liked this review and the book sounds interesting, particularly its length!