by Mary Jo
October 6th is the release date for A Distant Magic, the final book in my Georgian paranormal historical trilogy.
The Trilogy
In Book 1, A Kiss of Fate, Duncan Macrae is the most powerful weather mage in Britain.
In Book 2, Stolen Magic, Simon, Lord Falconer, is the Guardian enforcer.
In A Distant Magic, Nikolai Gregorio is a crusader, and his life and soul are dedicated to ending slavery.
by Mary Jo
Stolen Magic,Book 2 of my long out of print Guardian paranormal historical trilogy, will be released tomorrow (September 8th) in ebook and print. (The audio is already available.) As with all my stories with fantasy elements, I use the name M. J. Putney to differentiate them from straight historical romances.
The Characters and Story:
Duncan Macrae, the hero of book 1, A Kiss of Fate, is dark and Scottish and literally a force of nature, a weather mage who could call the winds and change the course of battles. His lady, Gwynne Owens, is English and a Guardian who thinks she has little magic. Until passion unlocks her powers, which are great enough make her Duncan's match, and his nemesis.
Simon, Lord Falconer, the hero of Stolen Magic, is English, blond, and very different from his close friend, Duncan Macrae. As the chief enforcer of the Guardians, he is known for his immense power combined with rigorous control and integrity. This makes Simon respected, feared, and sometimes hated. He believes he is doomed to be forever alone until a mission to punish the rogue Guardian Lord Drayton goes horribly wrong and he is transformed into a unicorn.
Simon escapes with the aid of Meg, another of Drayton's victims. She's a mysterious 
sprite with wild magic unlike anything Simon has ever seen before, and she can temporarily restore him to his human form. They pledge to do whatever is necessary to bring down Drayton. The need for each other’s magic binds them together–and releases the more ancient magic of passion. But even the combined powers of Simon and Meg may not be enough to stave off catastrophe for all Britain. Only a desperate act of love may win back the future–or destroy all they hold dear.
by Mary Jo
A Kiss of Fate, Guardian Trilogy #1
I'm delighted to finally be re-releasing my Guardian paranormal historical trilogy, the last of my backlist trilogies that were still in the closet The stories are set in the 18th century Georgian era and the main characters are Guardians, people who have magical abilities and are sworn to use them to help others. But being sure of when that's the case can be a challenge!
The heroes and heroines are strong, the romances are intense, and the stories are woven around real, powerful history. All three show what happened behind the scenes to make history turn out the way we know it.
If you enjoy the intelligent, honorable characters who star in my traditional historical romances, I think you'll love these stories as much as I do. (I use M. J. Putney for all my stories with fantasy elements so readers can tell which are straight historical and which have some magic.)
Photo above by Beth Miller
by Mary Jo
It is not news that Britain is an island. Not just an island, but part of an archipelago, a wide flung collection of islands including Ireland, the Hebrides that are the wild western fringe of Scotland, Shetland and Orkney away to the north, the Scilly Isles scattered southwest from Cornwall, the yachting Isle of Wight to the south, and many more: there are two major islands, Great Britain and Ireland, some middling sized ones, and over 6000 smaller ones, some not much larger than rocks, but still… (Photo at left from Wikipedia by Jeff Schmaltz, Modis/NASA.)
