Hello! Today, I am sharing information on the newest book by Sarah Hegger,
which is due to be released on September 1, 2014. This book, titled Sweet Bea, is the first book in Sarah’s Sir Arthur Legacy Series.
The following is an excerpt from that novel. I hope that you enjoy it.
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Time to be wooed. Wooed with
honeyed words and sweeter touches. Delightful tingles spread to Beatrice’s
fingertips, rushed back again, and pooled in her stomach.
Spring filled the air with scents
of new grass and wildflowers. The sun beamed from a cloudless arc of blue above
her. Birdsong serenaded her, as cornflowers merrily bobbed beside the path.
Even the insects buzzed encouragement. Only one thing was missing.
Garrett.
She dare not tarry much longer.
Someone from the keep would soon come looking for her. Beatrice shifted her
basket to the other arm and investigated a patch of what might be vervain. From
the keep, anyone would see her picking wildflowers. Just as she intended.
A footpath disappeared between the
dense green beech thickets. It crossed a small stream before meandering through
the trees and down to the village below. Was he still down in the village? She
tried to picture what he’d be doing. Working at the forge, perhaps?
She gave up on the plant and
straightened. She wouldn’t know vervain from, well, anything. Opposite the
village, a path shot straight as an arrow through the meadow toward the castle.
For certain, Garrett wouldn’t come from that direction. Perhaps he wasn’t
coming at all. He’d made her no promises. There was no understanding between
them. But, she dearly hoped all the same.
Hoping, however, didn’t make him
appear.
The sun blazed down harsh on her
face and she’d freckle.
“Wish, wish, planted a feather
and wished a bird would grow.” Nurse’s voice sang in her head. It was nonsense, pure and simple. Nonsense,
like lingering alone on a path, pretending to pick wildflowers, whilst waiting
for a man she barely knew to appear. A man with dark and mysterious eyes that
whispered of secret places and forbidden pleasures. She was a goose. When she
pictured the scene in her mind, it went thus. A beautiful maiden, garbed in her
finest blue samite, engrossed in the gentle occupation of picking flowers by
the roadside. The sun gleamed off her flaxen hair and brought roses to her
alabaster cheek. Her slender form, bent like a reed to her feminine labors...
Roses be damned, she was sweating
beneath her silk. It would leave stains on the fabric. She’d never hear the end
of it from Nurse.
A soft whistle jolted her.
Her heart leapt.
There he stood, by the thicket.
Smiling to warm her from the
inside, one shoulder propped against a tree, arms folded across his broad
chest.
Sweet Bea is now available through AMAZON and
BARNES
& NOBLE or pop along to KENSINGTON PUBLISHING
for your favorite format.
About Sarah Hegger
Born British and raised in South Africa, Sarah
Hegger suffers from an incurable case of wanderlust. Her match? A hot Canadian
engineer, whose marriage proposal she accepted six short weeks after they first
met. Together they’ve made homes in seven different cities across three
different continents (and back again once or twice). If only it made her
multilingual, but the best she can manage is idiosyncratic English, fluent
Afrikaans, conversant Russian, pigeon Portuguese, even worse Zulu and enough
French to get herself into trouble.
She currently lives in Draper, Utah, with her
teenage daughters, two Golden Retrievers and aforementioned husband. Part
footloose buccaneer, part quixotic observer of life, Sarah’s restless heart is
most content when reading or writing books.
She loves to hear from readers and you can find her at any of the places
below.
Warmly,
Mikki Cober
