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To
Love a Highland Dragon
Dragon
Lore, Book 1
Ann
Gimpel
Publisher: Taliesin
ISBN: 978-1-962916-004-7
Release Date: 9/5/13
Genre: Urban Fantasy/Romance
71,000 words
A
modern day psychiatrist and a dragon shifter stranded in time can’t escape
their destiny, no matter how unlikely it seems.
Book
Description:
In a cave deep beneath Inverness,
a dragon shifter stirs and wakens. The cave is the same and his hoard intact,
yet Lachlan senses something amiss. Taking his human form, he ventures above
ground with ancient memories flooding him. But nothing is the same. His castle
has been replaced by ungainly row houses. Men aren’t wearing plaids and women
scarcely wear anything at all.
In Inverness for a year on a
psychiatry fellowship, Dr. Maggie Hibbins watches an oddly dressed man pick his
way out of a heather and gorse thicket. Even though it runs counter to her
better judgment, she teases him about his strange attire. He looks so lost—and
so unbelievably handsome —she takes him to a pub for a meal, to a barbershop,
and then home. Along the way the hard-to-accept truth sinks in: he has to be a
refugee from another era.
Never a risk-taker, Maggie’s
carefully constructed life is about to change forever. Swept up in an ancient
prophecy that links her to Lachlan and his dragon, she must push the edges of
the impossible to save both the present and her heart.
About
the Author
Short
Bio:
Ann Gimpel is a clinical
psychologist, with a Jungian bent.
Avocations include mountaineering, skiing, wilderness photography and,
of course, writing. A lifelong
aficionado of the unusual, she began writing speculative fiction a few years
ago. Since then her short fiction has appeared in a number of webzines and
anthologies. Several paranormal romance novellas are available in e-format.
Three novels, Psyche’s Prophecy, Psyche’s Search, and Psyche's Promise are
small press publications available in e-format and paperback. Look for three
more urban fantasy novels coming this summer and fall: To Tame a Highland
Dragon, Earth’s Requiem and Earth’s Blood.
A husband, grown children,
grandchildren and three wolf hybrids round out her family.
@AnnGimpel (for Twitter)
Long
Bio:
Ann Gimpel is a mountaineer at
heart. Recently retired from a long career as a psychologist, she remembers
many hours at her desk where her body may have been stuck inside four walls,
but her soul was planning yet one more trip to the backcountry. Around the turn
of the last century (that would be 2000, not 1900!), she managed to finagle
moving to the Eastern Sierra, a mecca for those in love with the mountains. It
was during long backcountry treks that Ann’s writing evolved. Unlike some who
see the backcountry as an excuse to drag friends and relatives along, Ann
prefers her solitude. Stories always ran around in her head on those journeys,
sometimes as a hedge against abject terror when challenging conditions made her
fear for her life, sometimes for company. Eventually, she returned from a trip
and sat down at the computer. Three months later, a five hundred page novel
emerged. Oh, it wasn’t very good, but it was a beginning. And, she learned a
lot between writing that novel and its sequel.
Around that time, a friend of
hers suggested she try her hand at short stories. It didn’t take long before
that first story found its way into print and they’ve been accepted pretty
regularly since then. One of Ann’s passions has always been ecology, so her
tales often have a green twist.
In addition to writing, Ann
enjoys wilderness photography. She lugs pounds of camera equipment in her
backpack to distant locales every year. A standing joke is that over ten
percent of her pack weight is camera gear which means someone else has to carry
the food! That someone is her husband. They’ve shared a life together for a
very long time. Children, grandchildren and three wolf hybrids round out their
family.
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