{"id":728,"date":"2015-10-26T13:01:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T17:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/?p=728"},"modified":"2015-10-18T18:39:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T22:39:18","slug":"vampire-week-character-interview-with-murdina-from-vampire-highland-fling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/2015\/10\/26\/vampire-week-character-interview-with-murdina-from-vampire-highland-fling\/","title":{"rendered":"Vampire Week Character Interview with Murdina from Vampire Highland Fling"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Vampire<\/a>How long have you been a vampire?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m Celtic fey, a baobhan sith. I\u2019m vampiric but not a human who died and became a vampire. I have been a baobhan sith or you can say, dancing vampire, all my life. A woman never tells her age but it\u2019s well over 5000 years just to give you an idea.<\/p>\n

What’s the worst thing about being a vampire? <\/strong><\/p>\n

The worst thing is the fey live without love. Don\u2019t get me wrong, under hill (the fey realm) is wonderful and I love being fey but we don\u2019t have love. Now there is lots of lust and attraction but not the strong human emotion called love. I became curious about human men and love after my sister Sorcha fell in love with Ian, a human. I yearned for this powerful, life-changing completeness the humans call love.<\/p>\n

Are you a magical creature or are you a different species?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Magical. The baobhan sith are fey beings from Scottish lore. We are more powerful than any druid or enchantress. The most powerful goddess underhill, Morrigan, is like a mother to us. Though she is not always pleased with us, especially when we fall in love with humans.<\/p>\n

Where are you from?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I live in a round house under hill (the other world) with my sisters. It is also called the land of forever summer. The weather is always pleasant. Sunlight there doesn\u2019t cause us any harm but the earth\u2019s sun does. We can only come to earth at night.<\/p>\n

Do you have a love interest?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, Cameron, a human. Underhill we\u2019d call him a bard. He plays the bagpipes at weddings. When he performs he wears a kilt draped around his strong thighs. He has sandy hair, a broad chest, and the manly touch of a light bit of hair dusting his strong jaw, above his lips and on his firm chin. And when the wind blows his kilt up\u2026well I won\u2019t say anything more about that except that no one it to look but me. After all\u2026he\u2019s my man.<\/p>\n

What makes you happy?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I love to dance the Highland Fling as Cameron plays his bag pipes. With a hand on one hip and the other in the air, I bounce on one foot while I side-kicked the other and I switch back and forth. My long hair swings across my back and I\u2019m filled with a happy zeal.<\/p>\n

Vampire Highland Fling<\/strong> \u20142nd<\/sup> in the Dancing Vampires series<\/p>\n

Murdina a vampiric fey is hunting for a man, but this time she wants love not blood. She spots Cameron just as a strong wind lifts his kilt, she takes a good look and decides he\u2019s the one.\u00a0Cameron meets a mysterious beauty, who dances the Highland fling for him, and his blood boils for her. Soon Murdina and Cameron are doing more than dancing. But their time together is limited. Is their love strong enough to overcome the threat posed to Murdina\u2019s heart and to Cameron\u2019s life? http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/ndzll63<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Excerpt: <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMurdina, you are so beautiful, my dancing\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDancing baobhan sith.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before he could answer, shrill beeps pierced the air. He leapt off the bed. \u201cWhat is it? What now?\u201d<\/p>\n

As she pulled herself to a sitting position, she smelled smoke, something was burning. She coughed. \u201cI forgot about the eggs.\u201d<\/p>\n

He ran to the kitchen, turned the oven off and the fan on, and opened all the windows to rid the house of smoke. He grabbed a magazine and stood under the round, white gadget making that horrid noise, and fanned the smoke away from it until the beeping stopped.<\/p>\n

Murdina plopped onto the sofa, heaving with laughter. \u201cThey\u2019re burnt. You want a sandwich? We don\u2019t have to cook that.\u201d<\/p>\n

She nodded her head, she couldn\u2019t stop laughing. Cameron grabbed the loaf of bread and took out four slices. He pulled out a container of cold ham and a jar of mayonnaise and assembled a sandwich for each of them. He put each one on a small plate and grabbed two plastic bottles of Irn-Bru from the fridge. The orange carbonated drink had a subtle citrus taste. The more she drank it, the more she liked it. After they munched on the sandwiches and devoured the Irn-Bru,<\/p>\n

Murdina tossed the bottles into the trash can in the kitchen and set their two plates in the sink. Now that their stomachs were satisfied, they could deal with their other hunger. She clutched both of Cameron\u2019s hands and tugged him back into the bedroom.<\/p>\n

About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cornelia Amiri, who also writes under the name of Maeve Alpin, is the author of 28 Celtic and Steampunk romance books. She lives in Houston Texas as does her son and granddaughter and her cat, Severus. Severus is a writer’s cat, he loves books. He likes to knock them off the bookshelf, sit on them, and sniff the open pages. He also uses the computer, he sits on it, lays on top of it, and walks across the key board almost constantly. http:\/\/CelticRomanceQueen.com<\/a> https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CelticRomanceQueen<\/a>, Twitter: @CorneliaAmiri & Pinterest: https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/corneliaamiri\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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