{"id":8295,"date":"2020-03-07T18:48:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T23:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=8295"},"modified":"2020-03-07T19:59:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T00:59:55","slug":"inside-the-temple-weekendwritingwarriors-8sunday-sciencefictionromance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=8295","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Temple &#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 \/>\nWelcome to the WeWriWa blog hop, in which writers share 8-10 sentences from one of their stories.<\/p>\n<p>In this week&#8217;s snippet, Ari Tobias, second in command of the warrior priests, has escorted Selena, Elspeth, and their guards into the temple.<\/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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chanting male voices echoed faintly in the enormous foyer. A gray stone staircase stood to one side of it and an archway to the other. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe high priests\u2019 barracks is upstairs.\u201d Ari Tobias pointed. \u201cThe ones for the field priests are on the other side of the training ground and there is yet another with homes for priests with spouses and children. I\u2019ll take you to the prayer hall. A session is about to start, if you would like to join us.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWe\u2019d be honored,\u201d Elspeth replied. Her gaze hadn\u2019t left Ari Tobias for a second.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Welcome to the WeWriWa blog hop, in which writers share 8-10 sentences from one of their stories. In this week&rsquo;s snippet, Ari Tobias, second in command of the warrior priests, has escorted Selena, Elspeth, and their guards into the temple. &nbsp; Chanting male voices echoed faintly in the enormous foyer. A gray stone staircase stood&#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-8295","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\/8295","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=8295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8297,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8295\/revisions\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}