Today we have an exclusive excerpt from
Unintended by Justine Alley Dowsett & Murandy Damodred
About Unintended:
Four people. Four very different lives. Four tales interwoven.
Meet Kenzie en Shareed, the High Clan Chief’s daughter who is sent south to fulfill a treaty by marriage only to marry the wrong man; Kadrean Authier, the Crown Prince who must come to terms with his new bride, even if he doesn’t much like the idea; Garron D’Arbonne, a noble Lord who has been commanded to marry a cool and aloof princess he doesn’t love; and Vivianne Chappelle, a young and ambitious woman who is in love with her abusive father’s manservant and must find a way to avoid having her entire future decided for her.
Fate and wills collide in this Shakespearian-style romantic comedy about good intentions and their unintentional consequences.
Book Details:
Title: Unintended
Author Name: Justine Alley Dowsett and Murandy Damodred
Genre(s): Fantasy Romance, Romantic Comedy
Tags: Fantasy, romance, comedy, Shakespearian-style, romantic comedy.
Length: Approx. 440 pages
E-book: 978-1-987976-08-3
Paperback: 978-1-987976-07-6
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Purchase Links:
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Kindle = http://amzn.to/1P1GMBD
Paperback = http://amzn.to/1L0hkM4
Mirror World Publishing ~
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Read an Excerpt:
The palace was huge; it was much
larger than she had dreamed possible and seeing it from a distance had not done
it justice. The courtyard she stepped out onto was paved in cobblestones and
there stood easily ten times the amount of people that had been at the city
gate. These ones were dressed in such fine clothes they put Kenzie’s own brown
dress to shame.
She found herself gawking like
an idiot and feeling totally undeserving of the praise of these total strangers.
Despite her discomfort, they continued cheering and hailing her as their
much-anticipated future queen, as she awkwardly descended the narrow carriage
steps.
In all the commotion, Kenzie
hardly noticed the man who had somehow effortlessly made his way through the
crowd. Out of all the others in the courtyard, he alone approached until he was
standing before her. He was fairly tall, with olive skin and lustrous black
hair over stormy grey eyes, and he wore elegantly simple black clothing of very
fine quality.
“You’re Mackenzie en Shareed?”
he asked, not mincing words. Something in his eyes combined with the partial
smirk on his face told her that somehow this fact was amusing to him.
“It’s Kenzie,” she corrected him
almost automatically.
“Kenzie, then,” he agreed.
“Well, it seems that you and I are to be married,” he informed her, whether she
already knew or not. “I’m Prince Kadrean.”
“Well, Kadrean,” Kenzie copied
his tone, adding a bit more bite to it than she intended, “why didn’t you meet
me at the gates like a proper gentleman?”
Kadrean was taken aback by this
but he recovered quickly, licking his lips as he considered the circumstance
and looking her up and down once, as if appraising a mare he was about to
purchase.
“I believe you were offered exactly
the amount of courtesy that you are due, all things considered.”
“Oh, I understand,” Kenzie drew
upon all the anger she felt at herself for her failures so far today and
funneled it into the most hurtful words she could think up, “you were too busy
being pampered like a child to -”
“Prince Kadrean,” Seraphina
interrupted, stepping up beside Kenzie, “we are so grateful to be welcomed to
your home and pleased to make your acquaintance. I’m afraid your Princess is
tired from her long journey and would do better meeting you after she has had
opportunity to rest and rejuvenate herself. Please, can we come inside and be
brought to some accommodations?”
“Of course,” Kadrean answered,
his pursed lips the only outward sign of his displeasure. “Please, won’t you
come inside?”
“Fine,” Kenzie allowed, still
seething, “lead the way, Your Highness.”
Murandy Damodred (left) & Justine Alley Dowsett (right):
With a background in Drama and Communications from the University of Windsor, Murandy Damodred (left) enjoys fantasy fiction with strong romantic subplots. She is an avid roleplayer and is happiest when living vicariously through her characters. Though she’d rather think of herself as the heroine of her next novel, in the real world she is an expert in sales and management living in Windsor, Ontario.
From obtaining a BA in Drama at the University of Windsor to becoming an entrepreneur in video game production and later, publishing, Justine Alley Dowsett’s unswerving ambition has always led her to pursue her dreams. Today she lives in Windsor, Ontario and is still writing and publishing fiction novels. When not focusing on growing her business, she enjoys role-playing with friends and developing new ideas to write about.
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