{"id":9526,"date":"2022-10-30T11:37:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T15:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=9526"},"modified":"2022-10-30T11:37:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-30T15:37:49","slug":"i-dont-intend-to-explain-anything-scarlet-nights-weekendwritingwarriors-vampireromance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=9526","title":{"rendered":"I don\u2019t Intend to Explain Anything &#8211; Scarlet Nights #weekendwritingwarriors #vampireromance"},"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>It&#8217;s the Weekend Writing Warriors blog hop during which authors share 8-10 sentences from their work.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s excerpt from Scarlet Nights picks up where last week&#8217;s left off.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for stopping by!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last line of last week&#8217;s excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMay, that\u2019s utterly preposterous and &#8211;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019d rather not argue on our first day home. I have other things to worry about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch as?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you intend to explain to the other people in the village that you\u2019ve married your maid?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t intend to explain anything. It\u2019s none of their concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut &#8211;\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9477\" src=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/KH-ScarletNights-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/KH-ScarletNights-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/KH-ScarletNights-300x456.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/KH-ScarletNights.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>Scarlet Nights<\/b><\/p>\n<p>by Kate Hill<\/p>\n<p>Driven by rage at the death of his family, Blair dedicates his new life as a vampire to fighting evil. But when he fails to save a family from the fate his own suffered, he retreats to endure self-imposed starvation while he immerses himself in his art.<\/p>\n<p>Alone and penniless, May is hired to care for Blair&#8217;s country manor. She is soon infatuated with the handsome, tormented artist who has deeper secrets than she could ever imagine.<\/p>\n<p>The mysterious New Reign is seeking additional members. Their philosophy &#8212; recruit or destroy. Given the chance to resurrect his murdered first wife and children, will Blair now sacrifice the woman he loves &#8212; his wife and blood child, May?<\/p>\n<p>Scarlet Nights\u00a0 contains the previously published novellas<em>\u00a0Starving Artist, Hungry Novice,\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0Feasting With the Enemy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Purchase Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.changelingpress.com\/scarlet-nights-scarlet-nights-4-b-3410\">https:\/\/www.changelingpress.com\/scarlet-nights-scarlet-nights-4-b-3410<\/a><\/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 the Weekend Writing Warriors blog hop during which authors share 8-10 sentences from their work. This week&rsquo;s excerpt from Scarlet Nights picks up where last week&rsquo;s left off. Thank you for stopping by! Last line of last week&rsquo;s excerpt: &ldquo;May, that&rsquo;s utterly preposterous and &ndash;&rdquo; &ldquo;And I&rsquo;d rather not argue on our first day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[946],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wewriwa-blog-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9526","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=9526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9527,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9526\/revisions\/9527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}