Prince of Honor
House of Terriot Series #1
By Nancy
Gideon
Genre: Dark Paranormal Romance
Content Warning: sex & violence
The hunter
becomes the prey, a prisoner to his own desire . . .
Turow . . .
Strong, silent
man of integrity content to serve his new king as a prince in the turbulent
shape-shifter House of Terriot. A tracker and relentless hunter, he’s used to
running trails alone until charged with returning a traitor to their mountain
top home to face the unforgiving judgment of their clan. On the run with the
bad girl he’s loved forever, the choice between duty and desire has never been
more difficult . . . or deadly.
Could the
bargain made to save their lives become reality?
Sylvia . . .
Manipulative
schemer or victim caught between a mother’s ambition and a rogue prince’s lust
for power? Trust is almost as foreign as the idea of love, but to save herself
from certain death, she must risk both on the good man who deserves them . . .
from someone worthy. Trapped by the only one who believes in her goodness, will
she betray him and run for her life . . . or stay and destroy him with a long
hidden truth?
“Turow. I know you can hear me.”
He answered with a low rasp. “You have
nothing to say that I want to hear.”
“You’d be wrong.”
Slowly, he lifted his head to regard her, his
stare a searing blue against blackened eyes. “I doubt it. Why would I believe
anything that came out of your mouth?”
“Because I don’t want to see you die.”
“Then don’t watch.”
She struggled not to wince at the harsh slash
of his tone. “I’m trying to save your life.”
He stared at her, betraying no reaction.
“Did you hear me? He’s going to kill you!”
A soft laugh. “What did you think would
happen? There’s no way I was coming out of this alive.”
And Sylvia would never be able to close her
eyes if she was the cause of his death.
“What if I let you go?”
Her calm question shocked a response from
him. He blinked, brows lowering in a moment of confusion. “Why would you?”
“You stood up to Cale when he would have
killed me. Granted, you were willing to let him torture me, but you saved my
life. I’d return that favor.”
“James would know it was you. How do you
think that would end?”
“Badly. Unless I went with you.”
He concealed his surprise better this time.
Slowly, his eyes narrowed. “With me where?”
“Home. I want to go home. This,” she gestured
to their cold, grimy surroundings, her voice thinning with desperation, “wasn’t
what I signed on for. Cale forced me to run, to leave everything dear to me
behind. My mother. . . my mother is dead. I have nothing else, nothing to
lose.”
She looked sincere. She sounded hopeful. But
she was lying.
Turow knew better than to believe what she
wanted him to see. What he wanted to see. He ached all over from his last
lesson. Better to die with some dignity intact than to lead this lovely serpent
to the bosom of their family.
Sylvia unfurled a cat-in-cream smile. He
stared at the key she dangled before her. To his cuffs and his freedom.
“When he finds it gone,” she continued with
less amusement and more trepidation, “I’ll be in his sites, too. Swear you’ll
protect me, Turow, and we can go home.”
Such a sweet, deadly deal, one like
everything Sylvia offered, too good to be totally true. He had no desire to
remain chained to this chair until James arrived with a machete. But, once
burned and scarred by this female more deeply than any of his brother’s
tortures, he didn’t jump at the opportunity.
“There’s only one way I can protect you if we
return to the compound.”
She regarded him warily, sensing bad news
behind his smooth offer. “I agree to whatever it is.”
A slow, grim smile. “You’d better hear it
first.”
She swallowed then tipped her chin up to an
arrogant angle. “What is it?”
“You return to our mountain wearing the mark
of our bond.”
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Nancy Gideon is
the award-winning, bestselling author of over 60 romances ranging from
historical, regency and series contemporary suspense to dark paranormal, with a
couple of horror screenplays tossed into the mix, and is currently testing the
“Hybrid Author” waters of self-publishing. When not at the keyboard, this
Central Michigan writer feeds a Netflix addiction along with all things fur,
fin and fowl. She also has written under the pen names Dana Ransom, Rosalyn
West and Lauren Giddings.
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