Today on Carly's View, I would like to welcome author, Maggie Mundy. Maggie is the writer of the Midworlder Trilogy available now on Amazon.
Read on to learn more about, Unknown Protector, book one in the series...
Nicole finds herself fighting off a Demonic Midworlder
who wants to impregnate her so his alien boss can come to Earth. Plus she has
an ex priest who wants to attach a demon to her so he can save his friend. She
is tough, but has to admit she could do with some help from Ridge, who is as
alluring as he is annoying. Amongst all the fighting they manage to fall in
love, but nearly lose each other, and their unborn child. What they don’t know
is that if they stay together things may change not only for them, but for the
future of the world. New rules will have to be drawn up as aliens, humans and
Midworlders learn to live with the situation.
Heath’s
wings erupted instantly from his back as he swooped down from the car park roof
and caught Evie in his arms before she hit the ground. A fall from that height
would have killed her and he refused to lose another person. It had been
hundreds of years since he had lost someone before and it wasn’t happening now.
Not on his watch and in his area.
Lightening cracked through the sky and his whole body
tingled as if he was absorbing the energy as he grabbed her. For a moment he
wasn’t sure if the energy was coming from her and not from around them as they
hovered unmoving. It didn’t matter for now. Charles would be out of action and
paralyzed from the waist down, but it wouldn’t last for long. He needed to get
Evie over to Pergor and get her a guardian before any more demonic Midworlders
showed up. Fighting one he could cope with, but fighting a group of them would
incapacitate him for too long.
Something else was up as well as his messages were not
getting through to his enclave. Help wouldn’t be coming anytime soon. The last
thing he said to his people was he had received a message from an Angelic about
to pass over, and that she had found a human in distress. If he had known the
distress was that the human didn’t have a guardian he would have brought a
whole crew with him to protect her.
There were a lot of questions he needed to ask this
female. That wasn’t going to happen in hurry as she had passed out. He wasn’t
sure if it was from the fact she had been caught by a man with wings or the
burst of energy. As he peered at her he could swear he could see little sparks
of energy all around her. It made her glow like a light bulb. His own body
still tingled from the burst. He could recover from being hit by lightning but
he wasn’t sure how a human would cope.
Of course she might have passed out because most
humans don’t have this sort of thing happening to them. He had picked up from
her mind she had just lost her father. To be coping with such grief and the
attack from Charles made him admire this woman’s tenacity. She had brought a
smile to his face when he had seen her boot connect with Charles’s groin.
He stopped ascending into the sky and hovered and
allowed himself a moment of reflection as he gazed down at her face. What was
going on here? She cradled against his chest and he had to admit he liked the
sensation. He didn’t touch people unless he had to and had forgotten what it
felt like to have a human pressed against you. It brought out protectiveness in
him.
Her reached up and touched her cheek with his
fingertips. The glow was gone from around her body, but the tingle still
remained. She felt warm, too warm, as if she was running a fever. He moved his
hand away surprised at himself. He never let his emotions show and yet he felt
drawn to this strange woman with the wet and bedraggled fuzzy hair. It must
have been the jolt of lightening affecting him. She looked so vulnerable and
yet he had seen her be tough against Charles. She hadn’t known what she was
taking on but she had fought well. He didn’t know her but he liked her
feistiness. It was irrelevant. He needed to stop these pointless contemplations
and concentrate on saving her.
The other people in Pergor who he would ask questions
of were never keen to give answers, but answers were what he needed. He had
seen what the people from his Homeworld were like this past year. His friend,
Ridge, in America had found his life partner, but had struggled to get any
information from Pergor, their outpost between Earth and home used to be a
place of solace but these days distrust was the word he would use to describe
it. When Ridge had gone to Pergor with Nicole, no responses had been
forthcoming and they had even attacked her or had been willing for her to die. In
that instance her Angelic guardian had been removed by Sayell, a demonic
Midworlder. How the hell did Evie end up without a guardian at all? It didn’t
make sense. How long had she been like it? He had to assume Charles had been as
surprised as him or he would have brought his own back up as well. More
questions.
Thunder roared around him as he
opened his mind to form the conduit to Pergor. The lightning and thunder became
faint as the sky grew dark and starless around them. He would not let anyone
hurt her. He would die protecting her if he had to. After all dying would be a
relief from this existence of coping with the failure of the past.
“What the fuck is happening?” Evie
yelled.
Heath peered down and even in the
darkness he could see she was wide eyed as she struggled to get away and pushed
against his chest. There was no tranquil female in his arms now. Where she
thought she was going was beyond him as they were high above the ground. To be
honest he couldn’t blame her for freaking out. He had to consider what to say
next. At this close range he could try and convince her to hand over her
thoughts to him, but he already had a feeling she would not be willing to do
that after everything she had seen so far.
“We’re leaving Earth, to go
somewhere to get you a guardian angel,” he said, as he flapped his wings as the
stars started to disappear around them. He hovered in the space between worlds
not yet able to make the contact with Pergor. He could feel the pain start to
build in his temple knowing the connection was trying to form.
She thumped his chest as she
wriggled and yelled. “If a guardian angel is what I’ve seen on people for
years, I don’t want one. Half of them are dark creatures waiting to kill
whatever they see and the other half look like self-serving pixies after what
they can get, so get stuffed and take me home. I just want to be left alone.”
What she said just added more
questions to the list. “Evie. There’s nowhere for you to go. You can’t stay
here between the worlds, and I won’t let you go back or you will be found again
by Charles and his associates. I offer the only alternative.” She huffed but
stopped wriggling. He changed his mind and considered she was more annoyed than
scared. “I want to reassure you I’m not associated with those dark guardians.”
“You sure? You look pretty dark to
me. If I have to choose I’ll go with a pixie angel like dad had. Will it keep
that creep Charles away from me?”
“I will certainly try to get you an
Angelic guardian, and no, Charles won’t be able to touch you then. You have to
trust me while I take you to a place not of this world. I know it is a lot to
ask after what has happened, but you should give your mind over to me.”
“You can take me wherever you want as I don’t seem to
have much choice. Go for it, but I’m not giving my mind over to anyone. Trust
me you wouldn’t want to be in there anyway. You lot think you’re dark and yet
you don’t know anything.” Evie mumbled, as she shook her head as if to rid
herself of a buzzing bee. “If you knew my life you wouldn’t even be suggesting
going anywhere near my mind.”
She grabbed on tight around his neck and his whole
body tingled in the same way it had when they had been in the middle of the
lightening. He needed to concentrate on making the connection with Pergor, but
instead he found he was thinking more about how Evie smelt as she held her face
close to his. She had the aroma of lemon and vanilla and he closed his eyes as
he drew her cent in as she pressed close to his chest. It had been a long time
since he had felt anything more than the general need to protect. He wanted to
make things right for this human as he sent his thoughts out to the post on
Pergor. He could feel himself harden which often happened when their wings came
out; the difference was he felt it was the closeness of this woman affecting
him. He never let such basic instincts take over and yet again wondered what
was happening with this female.
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Want to learn more about Maggie Mundy?
Maggie Mundy lives in Adelaide, Australia and is a
member of Romance Writers of Australia, and the local chapter SARA (South
Australian Romance Authors). She recently completed a Bachelor of Arts in
Drama, English and Creative Writing at Flinders University. She had a short
story published in the RWA Topaz Anthology Little Gems in 2010 called Sea and
Vines. She has four books out with Rogue Phoenix Press. Two erotic novellas
called Blood Scent and Blood Oath and paranormal romances called World Change
and World Apart. She also has a supernatural thriller with Soul Mate Publishing
called Hidden Mortality and a paranormal romance called Unknown Protector.
She has also performed for many years in corporate
entertainment for which she wrote her own sketches, which probably explains why
her head is so full of characters. She loves writing romance but thinks falling
in love can be scary.
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