Monday Mentions: Feb. 15, 2016
Back to the rat race already. Never seems like we get enough reading time, does it?
Well, to tempt you this work week The Banter brings you a couple of time period tales.
The first, Knight Defenders, is a male/female read that steps back to the time of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Now what is sexier than a knight defending you to the death?
The second, Speakeasy, will take you back in time to prohibition where men are free to explore their sexuality at a speakeasy. Sounds tempting, doesn't it?
If these, or any of the Monday Mentions, have tempted you please let The Banter know. We would love to hear YOUR review!
BLURB: Gwen wanted to believe that her real first name – Guinevere – was nothing more than the byproduct of her father's obsession with the legends of Merlin, an obsession that had cost him his job and ultimately ruined both their lives.
Yet, when she encounters a monster in a dark alley bent on killing her and meets Lance, her movie-star gorgeous rescuer who explains the truth about them and who he is – Lancelot, from King Arthur's court – there's no way she can believe that he's just some insane man who claims to still be answering King Arthur’s battle cry after fifteen hundred years, especially when she meets the other knights and discovers she is being targeted by beasts sent to hunt them long ago by the evil witch, Morgan Le Fey.
Gwen is pulled into a battle for her life. But as the pieces in a complex plan put together by Merlin himself fall in place and Gwen with the knights pursues the source of Morgan's evil, she is soon afraid for much more than her life, for Lance wins her affection, and soon her heart. Is it a true love? Will Lancelot still fight for Guinevere? Will he pick up his sword as he did for hundreds of years, or will he realize that despite his vow, he didn’t really love Gwen but a medieval queen that had been dead for over a thousand years?
BLURB: In the height of the Prohibition era in Manhattan, recent Yale graduate Heath Johnson falls for Art, the proprietor of a unique speakeasy where men are free to explore their sexuality. When Art's sanctuary is raided, Heath is forced to choose between love and the structured life his parents planned for him.
