Are you someone’s hero? Maybe you haven’t pulled anyone from a burning building lately. Or discovered a cure for cancer. Or overthrown an evil despot. Maybe no one’s erected a statute to you. But despite the names of “important figures” that history records, there are plenty of unsung heroes who walk among us.
That’s one reason I’ve chosen to let two ordinary heroes star in my next book, DANGER’S KISS! When it comes to medieval fiction, we’ve all read about lords and ladies and forced marriages for political gain, but what about the common folk who were free to marry for love?
In DANGER’S KISS, Desiree of Canterbury is a medieval scam artist, a thief who runs into trouble when she starts pulling her tricks in the shire of the fierce lawman, Nicholas Grimshaw. It’s sort of an Artful Dodger meets The Sheriff of Nottingham, and for a long while, Nicholas doesn’t know whether to kiss her or kill her. But while they’re sorting out their obvious conflict of interest, they can’t ignore the passion growing between them, which culminates in their joining forces to foil a nefarious noblewoman’s treacherous plot.
DANGER’S KISS was great fun to research and write! I strolled down medieval cobbled streets, cooked up a lot of pottage, and rubbed elbows with peasant re-enactors at Renaissance fairs. In fact, a wonderful magician called Silvermane showed me the sleight of hand Desiree uses in the book!
Intrigued yet? DANGER’S KISS comes out in May, but it’s available for pre-order now. Just go to my website, www.sarahmckerrigan.com, and click on Sarah’s Bookstore. (You’ll be buying it from Amazon.)
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day this month, I’ll be signing books at The Los Angeles County Irish Fair and Music Festival on Sunday, March 9th at the Pomona Fairplex in Pomona, California. Look for me at the Tea & Sympathy bookshop, and come prepared with your best blarney!
If you’re interested in becoming a genuine hero, visit www.kiva.org. There, you can make micro-loans of as little as $25 to people in Third World countries, who will invest the funds to start their own small businesses and repay the money, which you can then re-loan to someone else!
May you always be a hero to someone!
