Snippet Sunday: Magic of the Loch Chap. 2 #9 @WildRosePress #SPeekSunday #8sunday #snippetsunday

by Karen Michelle Nutt

Hello Sunday Readers!

What’s new with you?

Yesterday, my girlfriend and I drove to San Juan Capistrano to visit my uncle who participates in the ‘The 2nd Saturday Street Fair”. He creates beautiful bird houses and charming crosses– necklaces and such. It’s amazing what he can create from a piece of wood.

What have you been reading? I’ve still reading  the Lux series by Jennifer Armentrout on my Kindle, and for my before bed enjoyment, I’m reading A Wolf in Wolf’s Clothing by Deborah MacGillivray. This is the third book in the ‘Sisters of Colford Hall series”. I love her writing. There’s humor, gorgeous Irish men, spunky Scottish women, and quirky characters you can’t help but fall in love with.

Goodreads Giveaway: Win a Print copy of SOUL TAKER. Offer ends Aug. 17th. Don’t forget to enter! See the side bar for the direct link. :)

Magic of the Loch is on sale for only 99 cents at Amazon! It’s a big savings from its usual ticket price of $5.99. So if you haven’t picked up a copy, here’s your chance to own it for less than a buck!

Now for Snippet Sunday. This is another snippet from Magic of the Loch. Today’s snippet is a couple of paragraphs later from last week.

If you missed last weeks snippet, here’s the link: Chapter 2 #8, Alan’s POV.

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Blurb:

Michaela Grant travels to Scotland for a holiday, knowing this vacation is her last. A medical condition threatens her life and any chance of a future—until she meets Alan MacLachlin, a man forced to exist between two worlds.

Alan is the legendary Loch Ness Monster. Once every fifty years he returns to human form in search of his soul mate, the one woman who can break his curse. He believes he has found forever with Michaela, but to claim it he must figure out how to save her life.

Michaela and Alan vow to take what time has to offer, but another threat looms. A sinister shape shifter with a vendetta against Alan is making Loch Ness his personal hunting ground. Now he’s threatening Michaela. Alan must discover who the shifter is and stop him before it’s too late.

***Note: Snippet has been modified to fit the 8 sentence limit.

Set up for the scene: Michaela agrees to let Alan and Hyatt give her a tour of the loch so she can search for the legendary Loch Ness Monster. As Hyatt and Michaela conversed, Alan realizes Michaela is not feeling well. He’s slows the boat to a stop, asking Hyatt to take over. Alan uses his ‘magic hands’ to ease her headache and offers her a bottle of water, insisting she drink. He then asks her to forgive him his rude behavior of earlier. Michaela couldn’t resist Alan’s charms and of course all is forgiven. With the tension gone, all that is left is a new kind of tension…

Now for the snippet: (Alan’s POV) 

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He leaned forward and her lips parted in invitation as if she too wanted his lips pressed against hers. Surely one taste wouldn’t hurt.

Behind him, Hyatt cleared his throat, slapping him back to reality and making him realize the foolish mistake he was about to make. He dropped his hands to his side and tore his gaze away from Michaela. He glanced at Hyatt and frowned, not caring for his brother’s smirk. Without a backward glance to Michaela, he stood and made his way over to Hyatt saying, “I’ll take over now.”

“Ye never fail to amaze me, Alan. Ye used the well water,” Hyatt whispered the last part.

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Alan gave Michaela well water? Hmm…  What does that mean? Find out next week with more of Alan’s POV.Like always thanks so much for stopping by.  I would love to know what you thought of the snippet. :)If you’re a writer (regardless of published/unpublished status) come join us and share a snippet of your work in progress, a new release, or an oldie but goodie.

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28 thoughts on “Snippet Sunday: Magic of the Loch Chap. 2 #9 @WildRosePress #SPeekSunday #8sunday #snippetsunday”

  10. Is there something magical about the water in the well? Maybe he was just bringing himself back to reality and talking about mundane stuff? Either way I am intrigued and i loved his little struggle there!

  11. It seems I can’t leave comments on previous posts… I know I’m super late though I’ll leave everything I wanted to say here.

    Magical hands, I also wonder what else he can do with them.
    Did he absorb the headache inside of him and will get sick too instead of her?

    Did he made the well water go from his hands to inside her head to cure her? Can they run out of well water? Why would the kiss be a mistake? Oh my I have too many questions.

    1. Linda,

      Thanks so much for stopping by. Sorry about not being able to leave a comment on the other posts. I have to put a time limit on comments because spammers tend to find the posts after awhile.

      Questions— and they will all be answered by the end of the story. 🙂

  12. There are lots of sacred wells in the British Isles — I’m guessing that the water came from one of them?

    Great snippet, but I think he should have thrown Hyatt overboard. LOL

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