Today's guest has shared treasures with us before but she's still relatively new to our blog so please give Toni V Sweeney a great big welcome with her brand new book, Sinbad's Triumph.
Sinbad’s Triumph is Book 5 in the Adventures of Sinbad sci-fi series
published by Class Act Books.
Blurb for Sinbad’s Triumph:
The
most wanted smuggler in the Galaxy is now a Felidan businessman. Breaking his
promise to his wife, Sinbad sh’en Sigh intended to again become a smuggler, but
the Federation spoils his fun by declaring his efforts a legitimate enterprise.
Things
are going smoothly until an old rival threatens to steal Sin's newly-acquired
territories and the resulting war brings a terrible price. The House sh’en
Singh is forced to witness the most difficult challenge to Andi’s love for
their pride chief when Sin crashes his ship and doesn't walk away from the
wreckage.
Now a disabled invalid, Sin must learn to depend
on others with his own stubbornness and Andi’s love to keep him going.
Excerpt:
In perhaps
the fastest ceremony ever performed, Adam and Shalimar found themselves husband
and wife. When the priest asked for the ring, Sin had to loan his son his own marriage band because Adam had always refused to follow the Felidan custom of wearing a
mate’s ring in his left earlobe. Once the ring was slipped onto Shali’s finger,
they were ushered into the dining room where the cook had concocted a hasty
wedding meal.
As Adam
escorted his bride to her seat, Shali was deluged with hugs from Andi, N’Sagar
and Andrea, while Kas, his uncle Allan, cousin Tran, and half-brother Andrew Tas again
ave Adam good-natured slaps on the back. Extricating his wife from her new
in-laws’ embraces, he pulled out Shali’s chair, made certain she was
comfortable and sat
beside her.
After the
uproar and the haste of the ceremony itself, the meal was subdued. To the men’s amusement, Adam ate his food as
fast as he could, devouring whatever was offered to him as if he couldn’t clear
his plate fast enough, while Shalimar picked delicately
at her portions the way she generally did.
“God, Uncle
Adam.” The exclamation burst from Andrea. “Don’t eat so fast. You’re going to
get indigestion.”
“Yeah,” her
twin agreed. “You can’t enjoy your wedding night if you’ve a bellyache.” Then,
he blushed, studied his plate and mumbled, “Sorry.”
Wiping his
mouth with his napkin, Adam dropped it to the table and got to his feet. He
looked around the table. “I want to thank all of you for being here, especially
on such short
notice, and I don’t want to appear rude, but my bride and I have a number of
items to discuss.”
Reaching
for Shali’s hand, he pulled her to her feet, kissed her quickly, then swept her
into his arms and ran through the door. The sound of his boots on the stairs floated
back into the room, accompanied by a low feminine trill.
Andi looked
surprised. “I don’t think I’ve ever heard Shalimar giggle before.”
“Perhaps
she’s never had anything to giggle about,” Sin said mildly, standing also. He
caught Andi’s hand. “Thank you all for coming. Stay and enjoy the dessert
Cook’s prepared.
Now, if you’ll excuse us, your grandmother and I have a few things of our own to
talk about.”
Before
anyone could speak, he caught Andi around the waist and swung her into his
arms, copying Adam’s dash for the door.
Behind
them, came Andrew Tas’ sarcastic comment, “Who are they kidding? Nobody’s going
to be discussing anything tonight.”
This year, Toni V. Sweeney celebrated her 74th birthday
and penned her 74th novel.
Toni has lived 30 years in the South, a score in the Middle West,
and a decade on the Pacific Coast and now she’s trying for her second 30 on the
Great Plains.
Since the publication of her first novel in 1989, Toni divides her
time between writing SF/Fantasy under her own name and romances under her
pseudonym Icy Snow Blackstone. Her novels have garnered awards from The
National Writers Association, Preditors & Editors, The Maryland Writers
Association, and The Paranormal Romance Guild. In March, 2013, she became
publicity manager for Class Act Books. She is also on the review staff of the
New York Journal of Books. Recently she
was named a professional reader by netgalley.com.
More about Toni at:
Twitter: @ToniVSweeney
Sinbad’s
Triumph was released March 15, 2017 by Class Act Books. It will be available later this week at Amazon,
Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, and Draft2Digital.
Thank you so much Toni, for sharing your new release with us. Good luck and God's blessings wit it! AND, Thank You, Friends, for visiting and supporting Toni today, I pray you enjoyed the excerpt and that you'll stop by each week for Tuesday Treasures, Thursday Thoughts and Saturday Spotlight.
Until next time, take care and God Bless.
PamT
3 comments:
I, too, write series - what a challenge! Yours sounds positively fascinating! Best wishes for continued success.
I only intended to write one novel but somehow the characters demanded 7 more! Thanx for stopping by,Susan.
The excerpt is intriguing. I always admire people who take on known stories and add their own twists.
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