I’m swapping blogs today with author friend Catherine Bybee. Catherine writes awesome time travel romances and quite a few of them feature handsome and brawny Highlanders. Her latest release is Silent Vows, and you can meet her hero, Todd Blakely below. Come on. Say hello. Ask him a question or two…and when you’re finished pop over to Catherine’s blog to say hello to Lucien.
Name: Todd Blakely
Profession: Anaheim Police Officer
Age: Late twenties
Appearance: Tall, about six two. Solid build with arms that should be yielding a sword and not a 9-millimeter. His strong jaw and piercing eyes bring on the confessions of many.
First Impressions of Myra: Liar! Plain and simple. He believes in amnesic women popping out of nowhere about as much as he believes that the moon is made of cheese. Yet how is it that when he gazes into the big doe eyes of Jane Doe he isn’t able to look away?
First Problem: Everything Myra says is a lie. Her association with a missing woman places her on a suspect list. Damn if he can’t turn her in. He should turn her in.
Second Problem: Someone is watching them, and Myra is terrified. When she reveals whom she is running from, Todd is forced to believe everything she’s told him.
Third Problem: Myra proves she isn’t a liar, but now she’s gone.
Todd’s thoughts
Todd sat on the cold, hard ground. His eyes were dry and refused to blink. Jesus, she was gone. She was really gone.
The only thing that remained to remind him she had been there was a black circle where fire had scorched the earth, evidence from the circle of stones that tossed them all from one time to another.
If he hadn’t seen it, he wouldn’t have believed it possible. Even now, sitting alone in the dark with mist starting to rain from the cloudy skies, he couldn’t wrap his mind around the facts.
“Damn. What did I do?”
Silent Vow’s Blurb:
Myra, a medieval virgin druidess, flees five hundred years into the future to escape death at the hands of a cursed witch and lands in the arms of a handsome but cynical twenty-first century cop.
Officer Todd Blakely knows Myra is hiding something, but can’t resist her innocent charms. Destiny throws them both into a world of intrigue and mysticism. Can Todd be the true white knight she needs? Or will magic and the winds of time tear them apart?
Excerpt:
“I want you,” he whispered in her hair, not willing to break their contact.
She stiffened when his words registered. “I don’t—”
“You want the same thing, Myra. Don’t try and deny it.”
“I don’t know what I want. I’ve not ever…” She didn’t finish her sentence.
“Not ever what?”
“No one has ever kissed me the way you do. Let alone anything more.”
A virgin? Was that even possible? “You mean you’ve never…?”
“Never.” She lowered her head and removed her hands from his shoulders.
“Hey.” He caught her gaze. “It’s nothing to be embarrassed about.” He kissed her again, briefly, then placed a protective arm over her shoulders and walked her home. “So are the men in Scotland blind?”
She laughed. “Nay.”
“What then?”
“My father is very protective.”
“Does your father know you’re here?”
“Much to his dismay, but we had no choice.”
Interesting, a protective father who sent his daughter away to a different country without any money. Something wasn’t lining up.
They were within a block of his home when Myra stiffened, and all color washed from her face. She stopped and spun in a slow circle.
“What is it?”
“Someone is watching us.”
“Some of the neighbors are busybodies.”
“No, Todd. The one who watches wants more than to gossip.”
Now the hair on his neck stood on end.
Silent Vows – Amazon Top 100 in Time Travel Romance
Available in Trade Paperback and E-Book
The Wild Rose Press
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Visit Catherine Bybee at www.catherinebybee.com
Do you have any questions for Catherine or for Todd?
Congratulations on the release of Kilt Worthy, Catherine. It’s lovely to have you visit today. Tell us a little about yourself and your new release. 
