Timeless

Title Timeless

by Nix Winter

Publisher: loveyoudivine

ISBN 978-1-60054-401-9

Genre: m/m, paranormal, sci-fi

Buy Link: http://tinyurl.com/nixwinter-timeless

Note: Timeless is part of the Immortal Fire Anthology and a bunch of us are chatting today. There's a contest for the print version of the anth! There's a chat today at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SixDreamWeavers/?yguid=339205342

Blurb: Prince Nathaniel is in love with a wizard, a foreign wizard from an enemy country. The prince's uncle wants to kill the wizard. Captain Denen, a commoner, a sea captain, who'd be more out of place in the palace than a cow dressed in flowers, wants to save the prince, but where there's magic there's more trouble than any honest man ought to be getting into. Brave, honest men don't always do what they're told to do though....

Dreams don't come out of nothing. Fine dark honey brown hair fanned across his face. Cream colored sheet draped across his chest, and he stretched across his bed, as relaxed and uncomplicated as pooling moonlight. He rolled, shimmering cloth slipping over his hip, pooling behind him. Moonlight took over the silk's role, caressing pale skin, slender body. A bookish prince, charismatic as a shadow in the day light, in the night, in his dreams, he was something more.

Black marble columns, moonlight, and he ran down the hall, long linen shirt tails fluttering behind him, curling around him as he spun. Eyes searched for his pursuer, for the darkness that left just a very slight noir fog at the base of the columns. The evil was nothing more than shadow, a whisper that he couldn't identify.

Strong arms went around him. Warmth came through the thin linen, hard body against his back, comfort around his body. Nathaniel closed his eyes and took a deep breath. With his eyes closed, the man holding him was easy to visualize. Tall, blond, powerful arms, vivid green eyes, and Nathaniel wanted to turn, to look at the man who appeared in his dreams all the time, but he knew if it did the man would disappear. “When will I find you,” Nathaniel asked. “Will I know you when I find you?”

The man leaned against him, a hand running up his belly, under the sheer linen night shirt. “I need you, my Prince. I am empty without you.”

Very sudden, without preamble or excuse, he imagined himself deep inside the other man, penetrating. The blond was under him, arching back against him, offering himself. Mounting the power of the other man, hearing the moans as he moved within him. “I need you! Where are you?”

He wasn't sure when he opened his eyes. The blink that followed felt just as surprising. The blond gone, in his place was a beauty with violet eyes, long swirling black hair. Nathaniel shivered, trembling in the arms of this more familiar man. Ears rose to points amid dark swirls of black silk. “Yee.”

“Nathaniel,” the foreign prince whispered. “Your dreams interest me, but you need wake up now, my love. We cannot fail in our plans.”

Nathaniel woke, eyes snapping open as he sat up. Panting, he fisted his sheets, trying to force calm. There would be peace. The war had to end. No matter what he had to do.

Immortal Fire Covers!

The cover for Adrianne's story in the Immortal Fire Anthology!

This project has been so much fun!  I can't wait to see the finished book!   My story is Timeless! I should just put all the covers in this post, ne?

I'm working on fixing up my page too... I don't know if I should use this blog or pay for hosting, or something. I guess I'll figure it out! 

So here are the covers for Immortal Fire! So many different styles. I think it's more important to be true to the story than to be true to a template though.

I love being with loveyoudivine.  Creativity is respected, encouraged. Being genuine is valued. Maybe that's not as mass market popular as Harlequin, but it is very good for the soul.

Now to do the print cover! :) 

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Nix

Dark Divas Interview

A new Interview!


Hi :)


The Splendid Dark Divas have interviewed me today :)


http://ddrreviews.blogspot.com/


Timeless is done and almost through the edits! Knowing Scars is coming along too... It's another story in the Toshiro series. This time he's going to leave his home to help a young woman who is struggling to recover her self image after a devastating car accident.


Please leave me a comment and stuff :) I'm thinking about having a contest for a large print of one of my book covers. Please let me know if that would be interesting for you, okay?


Nix

www.nixwinter.com

http://nixwinter.blogspot.com/

Windblown

Windblown releases today, folks. Another installment to the Immortal Fire Anthology.

http://www.loveyoudivine.com/index.php?main_page=document_product_info&cPath=24_30_51&products_id=548

With immortality, Triann and Garith expected lifetimes to love one another, not the windy, empty landscape of broken hearts, and one mortal man who could bring them back together, or tear them apart.

Blurb: Triann has spent years alone searching for any trace of the lover left behind when their world sank below the waves. Garith, swept out to sea on the ships meant to save the mortal people of their realm, never entered the sanctuary of Neo-Atlantis with Triann, and was doomed to spend his long years alone on the world of men.

Time outside the sanctuary does not pass as quickly, however, and Garith's will has not been strong enough to keep him alive, despite his immortality. He's fast fading to just a haunting voice on the wind, and Triann is determined to bring him home before he fades to a breath and nothing.

Neither Atlantian expects to encounter Tony, a man alluring and strong enough to tempt them both. That temptation could be their downfall. Or their saving grace.

Excerpt: Wind blew through the trees, tugged at the edges of him. The distant sound of traffic, not really a sound to him anymore, but a sense, trickled through the forest. Like the glitter of the snow; nothing tangible. Just a presence he knew. Intimately. Along lonely tracks to empty cabins, deserted and left to the snow and ice for the season, he meandered, stopping, sliding through an iron gate, caressing stone walls, howling over the chimney opening, blocked out of the warmth, the comfort, to wander alone. He touched it all, with senses that went beyond vision and hearing, so that brilliance cut, sound flattened him, scent pulled him taut. He resisted, huddled in on himself in a crevasse between stone and mortar, where he clung to a vague feeling of safety and strength, and dark, soothing softness as reality tried to pull him back into the blowing void.

"Leave me alone."

"You are alone," a voice echoed across the empty expanses.

Shock shattered him in every direction. He fled. Bits of self skittered across ice, sank into mounds of snow, danced up trunks to rattle in dead, dry leaves. A chuckle followed everywhere.

"Who?" He quested downward from the brittle canopy. "Where?" He lifted out of the soft drifts.

"Settle down."

He showered from above and rolled together, huddling in a dark hollow of a tree trunk.

"Come out."

"No."

"What are you afraid of?"

The words sighed around him, not words so much as ideas, thoughts, feelings he used to know about. The presence settled in everything. It surrounded him. Maybe it always had. He snuck out of hiding and felt a smile.

"Who?" What made him want to know? There was a word, a feeling. He couldn't remember.

"Does it matter who I am?"

It mattered. Identity mattered.

The presence settled, smaller, denser, close, and he flowed out of hiding to find it.

"Lost."

"Yes." The chuckle danced around him again. "You certainly are. Do you know what you are? Where you came from?"

He retreated, away from the trees, toward the people, the sounds, the vibration of traffic, noise, life and the nearest things to memories he had. He waited on the curb again. Beyond the hill, the bus roared, the orange pinpoints of light, the rush of air. He threw himself in front of it. The presence followed as he spun and twisted about the roadway.

Why didn't it work? It never worked. The only time he knew himself was during that moment of shattering, the split second of disintegration, when he should have become nothing. It hurt so much more, this state of not being dead. Much more than not living ever had.

D&D Character

I Am A: Lawful Good Elf Sorcerer (5th Level)


Ability Scores:

Strength-13

Dexterity-14

Constitution-9

Intelligence-18

Wisdom-14

Charisma-14


Alignment:
Lawful Good A lawful good character acts as a good person is expected or required to act. He combines a commitment to oppose evil with the discipline to fight relentlessly. He tells the truth, keeps his word, helps those in need, and speaks out against injustice. A lawful good character hates to see the guilty go unpunished. Lawful good is the best alignment you can be because it combines honor and compassion. However, lawful good can be a dangerous alignment because it restricts freedom and criminalizes self-interest.


Race:
Elves are known for their poetry, song, and magical arts, but when danger threatens they show great skill with weapons and strategy. Elves can live to be over 700 years old and, by human standards, are slow to make friends and enemies, and even slower to forget them. Elves are slim and stand 4.5 to 5.5 feet tall. They have no facial or body hair, prefer comfortable clothes, and possess unearthly grace. Many others races find them hauntingly beautiful.


Class:
Sorcerers are arcane spellcasters who manipulate magic energy with imagination and talent rather than studious discipline. They have no books, no mentors, no theories just raw power that they direct at will. Sorcerers know fewer spells than wizards do and acquire them more slowly, but they can cast individual spells more often and have no need to prepare their incantations ahead of time. Also unlike wizards, sorcerers cannot specialize in a school of magic. Since sorcerers gain their powers without undergoing the years of rigorous study that wizards go through, they have more time to learn fighting skills and are proficient with simple weapons. Charisma is very important for sorcerers; the higher their value in this ability, the higher the spell level they can cast.


Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)

A New Forth of July

hi hi

I made a little anime for this contest! It's only 30 seconds long.. please come see it! :)

http://www.aniboom.com/animation-video/389867/A-New-Forth-of-July/

Nix

Why Health Care reform is good!

Crazy stuff that people are putting out!

No one has anything legitimate to say against President Obama or his programs so they come up with CRAZY and outrageous stuff that makes the Patriot Act look like a nursery rhyme.

I expected more from the American people than to throw verbal rocks at a man who has restored the constitution and the rule of law. That people could say horrible, un reasoning slanders against a man whose plans and actions have begun to restore our economy is inconceivable to me.

I really do not understand the hysteria. On health care - if we stream line costs, change pay structures so that doctors get paid for healing people, not for the number of tests that are run, encourage competition between insurance companies and prevent them from having very anti-consumer practices like kicking sick people off their programs or only allowing healthy people on, get pharmaceutical companies to charge reasonable rates, have a national database for doctors to CONSULT about best practices, make patient information more easily available to authorized persons so we prevent double testing, misdiagnosis, and arrive at correct diagnosis sooner, if we pay for things while their cheap, like diabetes check ups, then we don't have to pay for amputations because the person didn't get the care they needed.... Personally, I think people would rather have a check up rather than an amputation. I should also point out, just it's clear.. the current system will get you an amputation...but it won't get you the cheaper check ups. Or maybe.. even better idea.. pay for care BEFORE someone's diabetic and keep the costs lower, the person healthier, and all of us happier.... And the crazy thing is... it's CHEAPER! to give preventive care to people so they live healthier lives than it is to do our CURRENT system, but if we prevent disease.. insurance companies and those that profit from the system now will make less money...

Now, given that some people are making a lot of money now.. and a lot of people are suffering with inadequate care... who is spreading crazy rumors to cause fear so that things will not change?

Panic and unreasoning hysteria are more motivating that cold logic and fact, but they're also more painful and let a person be control by liars.

The death panels... that's just the most horrible bait and switch...

So what we have right now is a bunch of profit minded insurance executives who WILL deny your care if they think it's too expensive, if you've spent too much money over the course of your life, or if you can't keep up with your payments to them. Those same persons of power WILL give you a cheaper, less effective treatment, especially if it'll keep you paying or you'll die before they have to lose anymore money. They'll deny you coverage at all if they don't think you'll be profitable for them.

Someone suggests that we ought to make health care companies cover everyone equally and that treatments should be in reasonable alignment with those suggested by a respected panel of impartial doctors - and people freak out because impartial doctors might be choosing to make sure that the most effective treatment options are offered to them, not that they and their doctors couldn't chose some other path of treatment, but that the effective ones will not be blocked because they might not be as profitable. That's a terribly scary idea - that doctors should be choosing what treatments should be offered to patients. Insurance executives have so much more to lose when picking treatment options, so we should let them pick what we're offered....

But opponents think that impartial doctors are way too scary and want to keep profit motivated health insurance executives.

I'm not sure I think that's a good choice.

*chews gum quietly*

Nix