BLURB:
"Sparkling
debut...a nice twist on the modern girl's search for prince charming." --
Publisher's Weekly
Once upon a time
there lived an outspoken fashion editor named Kat, who certainly was not your
typical damsel in distress. But when a gypsy curse sent her back in time to the
days of King Arthur, she found she'd need every ounce of her 21st century wits
(and pop culture references) to navigate the legend. After all, surviving a
magical plot, an evil prince, and a case of mistaken identity--all without
changing history or scuffing your Manolos--takes some doing!
Luckily, she's
got her very own knight in shining armor, Lancelot du Lac, on her side. The
honorable-to-a-fault and devastatingly handsome champion insists on helping her
out, even though she's not quite sure she wants him to. After all, shouldn't he
be off romancing Queen Guenevere or something? Will Kat manage to stay out of
trouble long enough to get back to her beloved lattes, cosmopolitans and
cashmere? And what will Lancelot's forbidden love mean for the kingdom of
Camelot?
EXCERPT:
"What
do you want to ask, Kat?" Lancelot prompts me with a tender voice. He
takes an embroidered handkerchief from a small bag tied to his belt and blots
my tears. For a medieval knight, he realty is a nice guy. Honorable. Stable.
Loyal. The kind of man I should look for in my real life, instead of the
I'm-in-a-rock-band-and-have-no-job losers I always end up with.
But
should I tell him I think I've traveled back in time? He's going to think I'm
majorly screwed up in the head. But, then again, what do I have to gain from
his thinking I'm normal? And truly, I'm sick of keeping all these crazy
thoughts to myself. I need desperately to share.
"This
is going to sound insane," I say, offering the disclaimer up front.
"But what I was asking is when am I? 'Cause to me it seems a lot like I'm
back in the days of King Arthur. And that's a time zone I don't belong
in."
Lancelot
looks surprisingly unpuzzled, and he continues to stroke my hair. His touch is
comforting, supportive, and gives me the courage to go on.
"What
would you say if I told you I was really from the twenty-first century—like, a
thousand years into the future? And that somehow I have traveled back in
time?"
Instead
of freaking out, Lancelot offers a fond smile. "I would say you already
told me that last night. About thirty-five times, in fact."
I
stare at him in shock and awe. Did I really already spill the time-travel beans
while drunk off my ass the night before? I know I have a tendency to babble
and, worse, repeat my babble when drunk, but would I really have told him that
I was a girl from the future not once, but thirty-five times?
Oh,
man, I am never, ever drinking again.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Mari Mancusi is a two-time
Emmy award-winning television producer and author of novels for adults and
teens. A graduate of Boston University, she now lives in Austin, Texas, with
her husband and young daughter. When not writing or producing she enjoys
traveling, snowboarding, reading fantasy novels, and her favorite guilty
pleasure: video games.
website: www.marimancusi.com
Twitter: @marimancusi
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