{"id":8268,"date":"2020-02-22T16:51:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T21:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=8268"},"modified":"2020-02-23T08:56:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T13:56:16","slug":"a-sign-of-good-faith-weekendwritingwarriors-8sunday-sciencefictionromance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=8268","title":{"rendered":"A Sign of Good Faith &#8211; #weekendwritingwarriors #8sunday #sciencefictionromance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/wewriwa.blogspot.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-cWrW5h1cKkY\/UQaGUcSiNeI\/AAAAAAAABAA\/UxDMpIoXpJk\/s1600\/wewriwa_button.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s time for the the WeWriWa blog hop. In it, writers share 8-10 sentences from one of their stories.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s snippet continues where last week&#8217;s left off. Priestesses Selena and Elspeth and their two guards have finally arrived at the Warrior Priests&#8217; temple and are about to enter and meet the priests&#8217; second in command.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kate-hill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/covercomingsoon.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>At the gate, the guards questioned Selena and her companions, scanned them, and checked their identification. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As a sign of good faith, they allowed Grant and Franklin to keep their weapons. They were about to enter a temple that housed about two thousand warrior priests, so even armed, Grant and Franklin weren\u2019t too threatening. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A shiver ran down Selena\u2019s spine now that she faced the reality of their potentially dangerous situation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The guards allowed them to pass. Another warrior priest met them at the gleaming black door. About six feet tall and blue-eyed, he looked in his late thirties or early forties. Like the other priests, he wore his long, blond hair braided down his back. A red symbol and a white one were embroidered on the collar of his uniform. The white signified his high priest status. He studied the women with cool detachment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About Warrior Priest<\/p>\n<p>(Science Fiction Romance)<\/p>\n<p>What happens when a warrior priest from a strict religion meets a free-spirited priestess from a new age commune?<\/p>\n<p>Jade and Selena are as different as two people can be, but to facilitate an alliance between their worlds, they engage in a cultural exchange. With their galaxy in danger from a planet that wants to conquer or destroy all others, they realize the importance of their assignment, but it is difficult for a warrior priest and a nonviolent priestess to understand each other.<\/p>\n<p>Selena is both attracted and appalled by his old school masculinity, and Jade is tempted to break his vow of celibacy until marriage due to his powerful desire for her. Will this unlikely pair not only find common ground, but unconditional love?<\/p>\n<p>Coming in 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read snippets from other authors in the Weekend Writing Warriors Blog hop <a href=\"http:\/\/wewriwa.blogspot.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s time for the the WeWriWa blog hop. In it, writers share 8-10 sentences from one of their stories. This week&rsquo;s snippet continues where last week&rsquo;s left off. Priestesses Selena and Elspeth and their two guards have finally arrived at the Warrior Priests&rsquo; temple and are about to enter and meet the priests&rsquo; second in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[946],"tags":[783,794,472],"class_list":["post-8268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wewriwa-blog-hop","tag-blog-hop","tag-featured","tag-science-fiction-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8271,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8268\/revisions\/8271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}