{"id":197,"date":"2009-05-18T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nitawick.com\/blog2\/?p=197"},"modified":"2011-05-19T04:23:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T08:23:26","slug":"please-welcome-laura-hogg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nitawick.com\/blog2\/?p=197","title":{"rendered":"Please Welcome Laura Hogg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-198\" title=\"fortheloveofaqueen_w1270_680a\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nitawick.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fortheloveofaqueen_w1270_680a.jpg\" alt=\"fortheloveofaqueen_w1270_680a\" width=\"440\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nitawick.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fortheloveofaqueen_w1270_680a.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.nitawick.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/fortheloveofaqueen_w1270_680a-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">For the Love of a Queen<\/p>\n<p><em>Could a man allow the woman he loves to die in order to save everyone she loves?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This romance is set slightly in the future in a war-devastated world.\u00a0 NAYDA JANAK is a woman of unusual talents.\u00a0 She was recruited as a teenager by a secret government agency and trained as a spy.\u00a0 Now she uses her various skills to help people who can&#8217;t help themselves, traveling the countryside with her small group of companions.\u00a0 She comes across a village and changes the lives of the desperate people living there.\u00a0 For her trouble, she is crowned queen, a warrior queen who trains her men to be soldiers.<\/p>\n<p> <em style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barryshamis.com\/?dreamland\">Dreamland buy<\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0JEFF LAWRENCE&#8217;S entire family is wiped out in the war, and he hits the road as a teenager with a bag of food and his sword.\u00a0 One day he is stopped by CURN, the cruelest warlord roaming the streets.\u00a0 Curn raises his sword to Jeff, and Jeff puts up a valiant fight.\u00a0 Curn then discovers that Jeff is the nephew of a world-famous sword-fighter and was trained by him.\u00a0 Jeff then has no choice but to accept this warrior&#8217;s offer and become initiated into his army of thugs.<\/p>\n<p>Years pass.\u00a0 Some of Nayda&#8217;s soldiers battle some of Curn&#8217;s and her people kill his.\u00a0 For this, Curn seeks to execute her.\u00a0 He sends in Jeff, his top general, as a spy to get information and bring back the queen for harsh punishment.\u00a0 Jeff goes to her camp and asks to join her side, pretending to be a deflector from Curn&#8217;s army.\u00a0 She accepts him with hesitation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Spending time with her brings Jeff to the realization that he has met his match.\u00a0 He falls deeply in love with Nayda.\u00a0 They get married, but Jeff is inwardly tormented, the threat of Curn constantly on his mind.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"display:none\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/johnquiggin.com\/?appleseed\">Appleseed trailer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t want to bring her back for execution, but if he doesn&#8217;t, her people will be slaughtered.\u00a0 For love, he chooses to save those she cherishes.<\/p>\n<p>He watches while she&#8217;s taken captive, not lifting his sword in her defense; watches her suffer punishment and in agony can do nothing about it.\u00a0 This queen and her warrior will battle evil, but will the price be their love or their lives?<\/p>\n<p><p style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kizukigroup.com\/?ugly_duckling\">Ugly Duckling psp<\/a><\/p>\n<p> ***<\/p>\n<p>Hello, Laura Hogg here. Thanks Nita, for letting me be on your blog! I write a variety of romance and some paranormal. For the Love of a Queen-think of the Middle Ages superimposed on the near future, and my time-travel, Romeo vs. Juliet-a wife chases her husband through different eras of history to stop him from killing people-are out with The Wild Rose Press, as well as a couple of vintage pieces set in the 1920s and an inspirational. Oh, Wings ePress has my historical romance, The 12<sup>th<\/sup> Kiss, set in the year 1820, and Aspen Mountain Press has my paranormal, Double Vision. With that one, I asked myself what exotic setting could I place a romance in, and thought of it-the astral plane. J I have a Western coming out with Eirelander Publishing next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from For the Love of a Queen:<\/p>\n<p>Curn&#8217;s arms crossed over his chest. &#8220;It&#8217;s been awhile. Too long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jeff didn&#8217;t move. Angry skies rumbled in warning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Come back with me now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m staying with my wife,&#8221; Jeff stated.<\/p>\n<p>Curn lowered his arms, and fury darkened his features, but he seemed to get a grip on his stormy emotions. &#8220;Why do you defy me? You know what I&#8217;ll do if you don&#8217;t follow orders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<form style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.damnshow.com\/?tremors_4_the_legend_begins\">Tremors 4: The Legend Begins ipod<\/a><\/form>\n<p>Jeff touched the hilt of the sword strapped at his side. The first drops of rain moistened his face and hands.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"display:none\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.literalmayhem.com\/?the_dam_busters\">The Dam Busters dvdrip<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Uh, uh, uh!&#8221; Curn wagged his finger.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff&#8217;s hand hovered over his weapon. &#8220;Fight me, Curn, no armies involved. There&#8217;s no need to bring the others into this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <em style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hermaniceuoder.cz\/?wallace_and_gromit_in_a_close_shave\">Wallace and Gromit in A Close Shave divx<\/a><\/em> Laughter burst from Curn&#8217;s gut, harsh and disbelieving. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think so!&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"display:none\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueshoeproject.org\/?the_matrix\">The Matrix move<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Curn stepped close, and Jeff inched his weapon out of its scabbard. Curn dropped his hand on top of Jeff&#8217;s and squeezed it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;top:-10088px;left:-5353px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.roomorama.com\/download-movie-limitless\">watch the limitless film<\/a><\/div>\n<p>He spoke in a whispered hiss against Jeff&#8217;s ear. &#8220;I have three hundred men circling her village from a distance, unseen. Cooperate with me, or I&#8217;ll send a man to give the word to kill them all. I warn you, do <em>not<\/em> tell your wife when she&#8217;s captured that you didn&#8217;t know about this. Never, never! Defy me again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bats.org.au\/?outlander\">Outlander rip<\/a><\/div>\n<p> Curn moved back and whistled, and several large warriors stepped out of the trees and stood behind him, glaring. Rain pelted down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jeff, I&#8230;&#8221; Nayda&#8217;s voice dropped off as she turned the corner around the boulder.\u00a0 She froze on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"fthofq\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thewildrosepress.com\/for-the-love-of-a-queen-p-1219.html?zenid=25b64d506d5907ea8f9c70173312d2ed\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to purchase For the Love of a Queen.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.derdelus.ro\/?dorian\">buy Dorian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <u style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flashict.net\/?watching_the_detectives\">Watching the Detectives trailer<\/a><\/u> \u00a0Blog for time-travel fiction:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveltheages.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/traveltheages.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the Love of a Queen Could a man allow the woman he loves to die in order to save everyone she loves? 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