Eilean Donan in a Fantasy World--Sale on Dreaming of a White Wolf Christmas!

A picture of Eilean Donan in a fantasy world. I added cliffs reflecting in the water on the Isle of Skye (just love how glassy the water can be and the beautiful reflections that can be captured in Scotland!)…so that it looks like the fairy mushrooms are now a long distance from the castle, and the castle is no longer floating in the sky. I love both, but this just gives a different story.

Here is a picture of a snow leopard I captured in a shot at the Omaha Zoo. In Loving the White Bear, a polar bear shifter story set in Alaska, three brother snow leopards also live, and this is Simon. He and his brothers are on vacation in a nice fantasy spot. It appears he is grooming himself after he went fishing. Do you think the koi will catch the dragonfly? Nope! He makes a narrow escape. And that’s my story!

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Witches and warlocks hide their true identities from the rest of the human population, while three teens with demon heritage living with human families, become unlikely companions in a race against time to deal with a demon threat to humankind in their own quirky way.Alana Fainot, a witch and half Kubiteron demon, witnesses a Matusa murder his summoner, and she knows he’ll target her next. Raised by her mother, she has no idea who her demon father is. But when she’s pulled to a demon portal, she meets Hunter Ross, half Matusa, half human, who returns demons to their world, but who’s been poisoned by a Matusa and is more dead than alive. His human mother gave him up for adoption, and he doesn’t know who either of his birth parents are. His friend Jared Kensington, full blooded Elantus demon, less powerful than the Kubiteron, is a whiz at electronics and helps Hunter track demons in the city, but was abandoned by his parents on Earth world for reasons unknown. He’s determined to find help to save Hunter. Alana knows aiding any Matusa is a mistake, but when she learns Hunter is half human, she makes a deal—he protects her against the Matusa who will come for her, and she helps find his dad in the demon world to save Hunter’s life.
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Dreaming of a White Wolf Christmas

Oct 2017

Tangling with a White Wolf―Best Christmas Ever, or Real Trouble?
Romance writer Candice Mayfair never missed a deadline in her life―until an accidental bite from a werewolf puppy turns her into an Arctic wolf shifter. She’s forced to isolate herself in the wilderness to cope with her unpredictable shifting while she works on her deadlines. After all, for Candice, Christmas is just another day.
Enter private investigator Owen Nottingham, a wolf shifter hired to find Candice so she can collect her inheritance. They have a real problem: she must arrive home in human form, and that’s not happening during the full moon. Besides, Owen has a new mission: to convince the pretty she-wolf her best move is to join his pack in time for Christmas…and to prove he’s the only wolf for her.
White Wolf series:
Legend of the White Wolf
Dreaming of a White Wolf Christmas (Book 1)
Flight of the White Wolf (Book 2)

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Fog in Texas and Scotland is Beautiful

Fog before sunrise, summer

 Fog at Dawn, spring

Fog after sunrise, summer

Fog in Scotland when we drove around a bend in the road, October.

Fog in Crawford, Texas, winter

Fog in a peach orchard, my next door neighbor’s, pink flowers blossoming in spring.

Fog bow over Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland, September.

Fog is beautiful. Evocative, mystical, spooky, beautiful.

Foggy Days Remind Me of Fall.

Fog in Scotland, Morning Sunrise, September

Fog is fall, winter, spring and summer. Reflection of the fog in the lake. Beautiful.

Terry
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Rainbows in Scotland and Goodreads Giveaway! & 99 Cent USD Preorder Price!

Magical Rainbow, mist and reflection of Eilean Donan Castle in loch

I thought how pretty the mist was the morning we left and was happily taking pictures when I realized a misty rainbow arched over the castle. Funny thing was the day before, I’d said how it would be fun to capture a rainbow over a castle.  And we’d never seen Eilean Donan in the mist either, so I thought that was just so pretty, mystical, and fairy-like.

Rainbow over mountains

We saw another rainbow while we were on a bus, but not sure mine came out. Couldn’t find it. It was amazing that with all the clouds, mist, and sun, we didn’t see more. But I was glad we saw a few.


Found it on my phone. We saw this one from the bus in Edinburgh.

A rainbow makes everyday a little more magical.

And a Goodreads Book Giveaway! A Silver Wolf Christmas release is coming soon!!

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A Silver Wolf Christmas
by Terry Spear

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Eilean Donan Castle Part 2

I'm continuing my post from last week about Eilean Donan Castle. This is the most famous castle in Scotland and is considered a Scottish icon.

Evidence shows that the whole castle was reduced in size during the 15^th century to around 528 square meters. No one knows why. The keep remained in about the same place and a courtyard was placed around it. The keep at this time had four stories and a pitched roof made of slate. It also had a walkway around the roof and projecting towers.

During the 16^th and 17^th centuries what is known as a hornwork and bastion were added to the east wall. The purpose was to make use of cannons, a new weapon at the time. A survey was done on the castle in 1714 by Lewis Petit des Etans, only five years before it was destroyed. But by this time it had fallen into disrepair.

 

 

How was the castle destroyed? First a tiny bit of history… King James VII (II of England) was kicked off the throne in 1689. His Scottish supporters, the Jacobites, had several uprisings as they attempted to put him, his son, and his grandson back on the throne of Great Britain. Their ultimate failure at this came in 1746 at Culloden. But in 1719, during the third uprising, Eilean Donan was garrisoned for the Jacobites by 46 Spanish soldiers. A magazine for gunpowder was placed in a low building at the rear. On May 10^th, three government frigates were sent into Loch Duich. Two of them, the Worchester with 48 guns and the Enterprise with 44 guns, bombarded the castle. After this near utter destruction, Captain Herdman of the Enterprise was sent ashore to accept the garrison's surrender and to blow up the remaining 343 barrels of gunpowder. After this explosion, little was left of the castle. 

The sad ruins of the castle sat abandoned on the island for nearly 200 years… until Lieutenant Colonel John MacRae-Gilstrap and his Clerk of Works, Farquhar MacRae, came along. The two men dedicated twenty years of their lives to restoring Eilean Donan to its former glory. Farquhar had a dream about how the castle should be rebuilt to make it like the original. Later, when old plans for the castle were found, they discovered that his dream or vision was perfect down to the last detail.

The ground plan from earlier phases was used when restoring the castle. The north wall of the keep was rebuilt and the south wall incorporates much of the earlier structure. The mass of the thick walls was reduced through the use of passages, closets and stairs cleverly built into them. They also inserted large Gothic windows.

 

The stones used in the rebuilding was quarried locally, dragged to the shore by horses and transported to the island by boat. Wood and ironwork came by train from Edinburgh to Kyle of Lochalsh. The thick green roof slates came from Caithness. The project cost a quarter of a million pounds and was completed in 1932.

 

Loch Duich

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Chief Torrin MacLeod vows to possess and wed the spirited lady who stole his heart the previous winter. But Lady Jessie MacKay wants naught to do with the dangerous warrior, no matter how devilishly handsome and charming he is. When Torrin arrives unexpectedly at Jessie's home, along with Gregor MacBain, a man Jessie was formerly handfasted to, she is thrown off-kilter. She never wanted to see either man again, but now they are vying for her hand. Torrin promises to protect her from the devious MacBain, but how can she trust Torrin when she has witnessed how lethal he is?

The more time Torrin spends with the strong and independent Jessie, the more determined he is to win her heart. Once she allows him a kiss, he feels her passion flame as hot as his own. After she knows Torrin better, Jessie finds herself falling for the fearsome Highlander. But the odds are stacked against them. The sinister MacBain is bent on kidnapping Jessie, making her his bride and killing Torrin, while Jessie's conniving younger brother, Haldane, is determined to use Jessie to take over the castle in his older brother's absence. Jessie fears she can never be with the man she loves, while Torrin will do everything in his power to ensure they are together forever. In his heart, she is the only lady for him.

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