BOOK
INFORMATION
TITLE – BELOVED ENEMY
SERIES (& Book #) – THE DESTINY TRILOGY (Volume III)
AUTHOR – HYWELA LYN
GENRE – SCIENCE FICTION ROMANCE
PUBLICATION DATE – 11TH March 2015
LENGTH (Pages/# Words) - Page Count: 266 Word Count: 69,380
PUBLISHER – THE WILD ROSE PRESS
COVER ARTIST – RAE MONET
BOOK
SYNOPSIS
Cat Kincaid is obsessed with killing the man she believes is
responsible for the torture and death of her sister, but when she eventually
catches up with him, survival becomes a greater priority than
revenge.
Kerry Marchant, haunted by memories, regret, and self-blame,
shields himself from the pain of the past by committing himself totally to the starship,
Destiny, of which he is part owner. However, the beautiful, red-haired woman
who reminds him of his lost love, and who he suspects is working for a corrupt
regime, represents a possible threat not only to the ship, but to his
heart.
Marooned on an inhospitable planet, they need to work
together to stay alive, fighting not only unknown assailants, but their growing
attraction. But how can they learn to trust each other when he has vowed never
to get close to a woman again, and she made a solemn pledge to destroy
him?
BUY & TBR LINKS
EXCERPT
Before she could activate the weapon, Kerry let off another
barrage of plasma bolts into the river. He leapt toward her and ripped the
severed tentacle from her leg. It flapped around on the wet grass. She
scrambled to her knees, still slightly winded, and fired at the hideous thing.
The foliage around it flared briefly with an eerie green flame, and the
tentacle shrivelled into a slimy black mass, emitting a pungent odour and
causing her to gag.
“It seems I was mistaken about the creature being dead.”
Kerry prodded the smouldering mass with his boot and looked across over the
water. “It is now.” He leaned down and grasped her wrist to haul her to her
feet. “Are you hurt?”
“No, I don’t think so.” Her shoulder was sore and probably
bruised but she’d live.
She tried to control her shivering. The incident affected
her more than she wanted to admit. Kerry’s proximity—naked to the waist, his
lithe body shining from the water droplets that still clung to his skin, and
his legs swathed in tight black leather—did nothing to help. The last thing she
wanted was for him to realize how scared she’d been when she thought a snake
attacked her.
“Thanks. That was close. It would have been a bit ironic if
I’d been killed by the same creature I saved you from.”
She realized he still grasped her wrist. She tried to move
away, but he pulled her back, obliging her to turn to
him.
“You’re trembling.”
“I’m fine.”
“No,” he said. “You’re not.” He pulled her closer and his
eyes softened, his gaze holding her mesmerized. She opened her mouth to try to
speak, but in the same instant, he put his hand under her chin and his lips
closed over hers.
CHARACTER
BIOS
KERRY
MARCHANT - By nature something of a ‘loner’,
as a young boy, Kerry nevertheless formed a strong friendship with Jon Quinlan.
This friendship continued through adulthood, although both were from vastly
differing backgrounds, Kerry having been raised as an orphan and Jon being the
son of a family possessed of enormous wealth.
Disillusioned by a vastly overpopulated and oppressed Earth,
and combining Kerry’s computer skills, intellect and brilliant astrophysical knowledge,
together with Jon’s limitless funds and leadership skills and contacts, they
designed and built a magnificent exploratory starship, The Destiny. They
assembled a crew of like-minded individuals and left earth to escape the
tyranny of The Global Union of Earth and Allied Planets.
His role as second-in-command of the Destiny suits Kerry
perfectly and although on good terms with the rest of the crew, Jon remains the
only person Kerry feels he can really relate to. Never one to reveal his
innermost feelings he is now even more withdrawn and morose, blaming himself
for the loss of Jestine Darnell, the young woman with whom he fell in love, and
who still haunts his memories. Cat Kincaid is a lovely, red haired complication
he had not counted on and would prefer to do without – except that there is
something about her that, despite his better judgement, he finds tantalizingly
attractive and intriguing.
CAT KINCAID -
Independent and single minded. Cat has learnt to trust no one and to rely on
her wits to survive. Raised on Earth with her only sister, her comfortable life
was turned upside down when her father deserted them.
After several years in space, she has things in her past, secrets,
which it would be dangerous to reveal, and one in particular which she has made
a solemn promise to keep safe and to protect with her life, rather than allow
it to fall into the wrong hands.
Having been betrayed by a man she thought she could rely on,
she has sworn never to let another close enough to break her heart again. There
is one man, however, who she has sworn to track down and confront – the man
responsible for her sister’s death. When she finally meets the handsome, blue
eyed man she seeks, she is confused by conflicting emotions which have nothing
to do with revenge.
AUTHOR
BIO
Hywela Lyn most of her life in Wales and the beautiful
countryside and legends did much to insire her writing. Although she now lives
in a small village in England, she is very proud of her Welsh heritage and
background.
Her pen name is a combination of her first two names -
'Hywela’ is Welsh and her first name but it was never used and she has always been
called by her second Christian name, Lyn, so she thought it was time ‘Hywela’
got an airing.
A hopeless romantic, she enjoys weaving romantic tales of
the future, and distant, mysterious worlds, and one thing remains constant in
her writing: The power of love. Love, not only between her heroes and heroines,
but between friends and siblings, and for their particular world and the
creatures that share it. This reflects her love of all animals, especially
horses. She lives with her long suffering husband, Dave, and has two horses, a
feral cat and an adopted lovable but slightly manic terrier called Choccy.
(whose name also reflects her love of chocolate!)
Hywela Lyn’s debut novel, 'Starquest', a futuristic romance
was published by The Wild Rose Press who also published her second book in the
Destiny Trilogy, 'Children of the Mist'. ‘Beloved Enemy’ which continues the
Destiny series is released on March 11th by the same publisher.
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