Sunday, December 31, 2006

Days late, dollars short

The Crapometer is closed, and yet I can't stop writing hooks. Here are two for the price of one:

(This is a paranormal romance that Silhouette probably wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole, and it's called Desert Magic.)

It took Lexie Ryan years of archaeological detective work to find the lost city of Khansbarak.

Turns out that was the easy part.

As the excavation begins, Lexie and her team have to deal with sandstorms, equipment mysteriously going missing, and mass hallucinations. Lexie also has to deal with Kaveh Feroz, an observer from the local government who is attractive and charming, but has a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Then Kaveh reveals that he isn't human at all but an ifrit, a spirit whose life is bound to the city's well-being. If the dig continues, he will die. Lexie has to chose between the find of a lifetime and the man she has fallen in love with.

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(No title yet. True to form, until I have a real title, I am calling it something entirely goofy just to make myself laugh. It's currently known as "The Coed, The King, The Magician, and His Lover.")

Beth has a perfectly nice boyfriend; she's not supposed to fall in love.

Then again, deposed 15th-century kings are not supposed to turn up at modern-day liberal arts colleges.

Edward knows who wanted him out of the way. What he can't figure out is why his uncle and the corrupt court magician wanted him so far out of the way that they sent him over six centuries into the future. More importantly, he doesn't know who wants him and Beth dead in the present day.

When Beth and Edward turn to Calvin Mathiesen, the world's most famous (and most inept) magician, for help, the three of them discover a plot to thwart the proper course of history and take magic out of human hands entirely. Can they make things right before it's too late?

Friday, December 29, 2006

Someday this will be a real journal - I'll probably use it for writerly stuff, since I use my Livejournal (darkluna) for whingeing and squeeing and making fun of people.

I created it mostly 'cause I couldn't find a way to register without making one, and I wanted to comment over at Miss Snark's place.