KNIGHT'S FORK by Rowena Cherry

Book Title: Knight’s Fork


Back cover:

Carpe Scrotum! Seize Life By The Testicles.
~Electra-Djerroldina

The Queen Consort of the Volnoth needs a sperm donor, and only one green-eyed god has the right stuff. Little does she know she has pinned all her hopes on the crown jewels of the fabled Royal Saurian Djinn. Not only is he the son of her greatest enemy, but he has taken a vow of chastity.


"When forced to choose between two evils, pick the one you’ve never tried before... SEX."
—'Rhett


The Saurian Knight is caught between a problem father who has all the moral integrity of a Mafia Don, and a married Princess who would stop at nothing to have his seed in her belly. No matter which way he turns, he's "forked."


"Why would a male both hope for and fear a lover? ...Ah! Inexperience perhaps?"
—Tarrant-Arragon


Taking the wrong lover...in the wrong place, at the wrong time...is dangerous. And when the High and Mighty intervene, it can be fatal. Can true love and a pure White Knight's virtue triumph, when society loves a right royal scandal?


KNIGHT'S FORK

Coming in October 2008
http://www.dorchesterpub.com

ISBN 0-505-52740-5
ISBN 978-0-505-52740-0

Third book in Rowena Cherry's award-winning alien romance series "god-Princes of Tigron" (aka "the mating books") that began with Forced Mate

Paperbacks:

1. FORCED MATE (2004) also e-book (2005)

2. INSUFFICIENT MATING MATERIAL (2006)

3. KNIGHT’S FORK (2008)

Other:

Prequel : MATING NET (2005) e-book


Genre:
Futuristic Romance

Heat level:
Some villainous language by the villain.
Some explicit, non-violent heterosexual fantasies.


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Excerpt:

Prince Djarrhett ('Rhett) is too far on his way to Earth to turn back, when to his horror and fury he discovers a stowaway.




"I'm at your service in this, Ma'am. I've never refused a fight."

I've never lost one, either!

To his surprise, instead of making a pass at him, she sauntered over to join him at the service niche. She took up an Imperial armorers' sponge in her fingers, and began cleaning and disinfecting the blade of an épée, which showed that she knew what she was doing.

Her curled hand stroked firmly up and down the long shaft, leaving a gleaming trail of moisture where the sponge in her palm had pressed. The erotic suggestion was almost certainly deliberate.

Two could play at that.

Two probably would. They both had a lot to learn, and most of it was about sex, one way or another.

"Are you ready to demonstrate your prowess at sword-play, Your Majesty?"

"Let's make this interesting," she whispered. "I challenge you to a proper duel. To the drawing of first blood. If you lose, you will impregnate me."

He untangled his weapon and stepped back. It was such an unusual reversal of the way these things usually played out that it took a moment to come up with a suitable rebuff.

"If I lose, I impregnate you?" he rasped a follow up question when their actions brought them close enough to whisper again.

"And if you win, you don't have to." She was breathing heavily, and her words could be heard by their audience.

She was shameless! She turned morality upside down. She was in sore need of a very stiff lesson.

"It seems to me," he said slowly, striving for the right balance of arrogance and legal pedantry, "that I don't 'have to' anyway."

Her heart rate increased. Hearing the faster beat excited him. As they circled and feinted, he found himself eyeing her with indecent interest.

The superb, layered cut of her outfit allowed for a surprising range of movement. When she twirled, the panels of her coat-dress top flew wide, revealing a glossy, lipstick red lining. Her reflection in the long wall of mirrors showed her long, slender, racehorse legs.

Nice legs. Shame about the... morals.

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Early Reviews of Knight's Fork

"Rowena Cherry is a brilliant writer. Blending humor and romance is much harder then most people believe and she does it effortlessly. Her third Djinn novel is an excellent example. KNIGHT'S FORK had me laughing from the first chapter all the way to the end.
Rhett is a hot and smart leading man that had me thinking of old Carey Grant movies and some of the great one-liners he delivered on the silver screen. Electra is an intelligent, beautiful woman who captures the reader's heart from page one. These two are thrust together through a series of hysterical misadventures that lead to a sizzling romance.
This novel has it all and I would recommend it to everyone. One thing to keep in mind, though, is that this is the third book in the series and makes reference to characters and events in the previous books. Readers might want to read this series in order and not as stand alone books.

Five Mystique Moons and Class Two sensuality. Cosmic
~Sarah Gentili, co-owner of Mystique Books




"Entertaining, fascinating, exotic.... and exploding with pent up sensual tension."
~ Susan Kearney, USA Today best selling author of SOLAR HEAT


"A stellar ride through far-reaching outer space and the inward roads of personal inner space... Cherry's trademark style of space skullduggery continues to amaze me..."
~ Brenda, Mystiquebooks.com


"I never laughed so hard in my life at the antics of Tarrant-Arragon and Djarrhett in this book, Knight's Fork. Poor 'Rhett is in a terrible position thanks to Tarrant-Arragon, and it is made even worse by his father's attempts to benefit and manipulate the matter to his own ends. Add to that, misunderstandings and meddlesome women, and Rowena Cherry gives us yet another fantastic read!"
~ Rose Brungard, Romance at Heart


More Praise for Rowena Cherry

"If you haven't read one of Rowena's novels, I highly recommend them. She is one of the wittiest writers I know."
~ Joy Nash, USA Today bestselling author of
IMMORTALS: THE AWAKENING AND DEEP MAGIC


"If you look up the word spellbinding in the dictionary of authors - Rowena Cherry is right at the very top.
She writes about alien universes as if they exist, she's lived there and about characters as if they are real and she's know them. Fantasy fiction at its very best.

If you look up the list of fans of Cherry- I'm right at the very top."
~ M.J. Rose - international bestselling author of
THE REINCARNATIONIST


"Rowena Cherry is one of the best sub-genre writers due to her skill at placing the heroic characters in impossible scenarios."
~ Harriet Klausner, Affaire de Coeur