Title – Rain
Author – Nicole Hurley-Moore
Genre – Fantasy (medieval fairytale)
Publication Date – 20th November 2013
Length (Pages/# Words) - 169 pages
Publisher – Jupiter Gardens Press
Cover Artist – Tibbs Design
BOOK SYNOPSIS
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On the mountain, high above the village of Farran – Nuri is caught between heaven and hell. Two men fight for her love and her soul. The first is Maras, an elemental being who follows the storms. Nuri knows that he is not human, he’s something more. She believes he is her beautiful fallen angel. Yet he is transient and is bound to the elements and their love may be as fleeting as the storm itself. The second is Brother Erebus, a pious monk whose tortured soul is twisted by his desire for her.
But Nuri may sacrifice more than her heart when the Church brands her angel a demon. As Brother Erebus will do anything to protect her soul from the silver haired devil, even if he has to crush her body to do it.
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EXCERPT
Rain –
Nuri couldn’t sleep; the straw mattress was hard and
lumpy. She had kept a candle burning, an extravagance, but she needed the dim
light to stop the stark stone walls of the cell from crowding in on her. She
turned and she tossed, but it was her mind that would not allow her to sleep.
Thoughts of Maras kept turning in her brain. She had
seen his pale eyes warm when he looked at her, and her skin burned at his
touch. He would leave her when the season changed and the storms blew over the
mountain, but until then he was hers. With a sigh, she threw back the blankets
and got off the narrow bed. She shivered as her feet touched the chilly stone
floor of the cell. These small rooms were the guest accommodation for Farran
Chapel, but they felt more like prison cells. There was one high window that
was closed with a wooden shutter, the gray walls, and the floor – everything
stark and hard, especially the bed.
Mayhap Erebus was right. Perhaps he could see her more
clearly than she could see herself. For at that moment, she would have given
nearly anything to have the courage to walk into Maras’s room. The more she
thought about it, the more she came to believe she and Maras were destined to
be together – not forever, but until the rain came.
She wanted him. She wanted him to hold, kiss, and touch
her. She wanted him in every way, even if it put her on the path that Erebus
feared so much. Maras made her feel alive. Galfridus wanted her to marry, but
she knew she would not, as no other man could measure up to her angel.
She stood next to the wall that adjoined their rooms,
and placed her flattened hand against it. Her courage had failed her. What if
she went to him and he turned her away?
~* * *~
Maras stood by the gray stone wall and placed his hand
on it. He could hear Nuri moving about the room, restless. It took all his
determination to stop himself from going to her. He knew that he was leaving,
and that he had no right to complicate her life, as he would never be able to
share his own with her. But with each passing day, he was drawn more and more
to her beauty and her quiet, gentle spirit. He treasured the moments when she
would lift her head and smile at him, the way her hands would glide over his
skin and make it tingle. From the moment he had seen her, he had tried to fight
the overwhelming desire to feel her arms about him, to taste her lips, to take
her.
Nuri made him feel wanted and needed. It was a feeling
that he had long forgotten. She made him feel...human.
He stood in his dark cell and wondered what she would do
if he went to her, even though he didn’t have the right. Would she welcome him
to her embrace, to her bed, or would she turn him away?
If she did, wouldn’t that destroy him?
~* * *~
AUTHOR BIO
Nicole has always been a lover of fairy tales, history and romance. She grew up in
Melbourne and has travelled extensively, whilst living her life through the romance of
books. Her first passion in life has always been her family, but after studying and achieving
a History degree and Honours in Medieval Literature, she devoted her time to writing historical romance.
She is a full time writer who lives in the Central Highlands of Victoria with her family, where
they live in the peaceful surrounds of a semi‐rural town.
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