Hard Day's Knight

Informationen zum Autor Katie MacAlister lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and dogs! and can often be found lurking around online game sites. Klappentext The "USA Today" bestselling author of "The Corset Diaries" pens a sexy new contemporary romance that follows one determined woman on her quest to find a man at a modern-day Renaissance fair. Original. "Right, so where are all the good-looking men in formfitting tights?" "Probably rehearsing. You can set that down next to the cooler." "Rehearsing? Rehearsing what? Hunky men in skintight clothing don´t rehearse! They´re far too manly for such a sissy thing. Actors rehearse. Men in tights ... well, they just don´t. Unless ... hey! You wouldn´t drag me out here to the middle of nowhere by promising me really handsome, dashing guys in extremely cool knight getup without telling me they were all gay, would you?" CJ grinned as I deposited a box of toilet paper, napkins, and assorted towels on top of the red plastic cooler. "I´m sure some are, but not all. Don´t worry; you´ll have lots of manly-man guys to slobber over." "I´d better," I muttered darkly as I stomped off to the car to fetch another load of camping accessories. Twenty minutes later I returned from the wilds of the parking lot. "You know, I always imagined ye old days of medieval yore had a whole lot more dashing, daring knights hanging around, and fewer steaming piles of poop." I stepped carefully over the huge pile of fly-bespecked horse manure, and staggered toward the ever-growing collection of bags, boxes, coolers, food hampers, and suitcases that contained those items my cousin deemed vital to our continued existence. "Oh, no, poop was everywhere back then. Open sewers, you know," CJ answered from where she was on her knees digging into a rucksack, muttering to herself as I dropped a box of canned beans and packages of freeze-dried hiking food next to her. "I still haven´t seen even one man in tights. There´s a couple of women a few tents down who are dressed like knights, but that´s it. So help me, Ceej, if you dragged me out here on false pretenses ..." "I didn´t!" CJ all but climbed into the rucksack, her voice muffled as she tried to placate me. "They´re rehearsing, I promise. Everyone rehearses before opening day. The vendors are probably vendoring or setting up their booths. And the jousters are doing practice runs." "Okay, but I´d better start seeing some soon. You promised me great big herds of manly guys being knights and rogues and swashbuckling pirates." I peered around at the sea of tents that surrounded us. The flat, open field adjacent to the fairgrounds housing the Faire served as a tent city of Faire performers, vendors, employees, and joust participants. Most of the tents were blocky squares and rectangles of dull gray or green, like the one CJ had provided for us, but at the far end of the tent city were clustered beautiful striped tents of all colors, some with pennons and flags bearing coats of arms waving lazily in the late afternoon summer breeze. Other than the two women I´d seen coming from the car, the tent city was strangely devoid of human life. "I´m not seeing even a small flock of manly knights, much less a herd of them. In fact, there doesn´t seem to be anyone here at all. Are you sure that this Faire is a hotbed of romance and dishy guys?" "Would I lie to you?" CJ pulled herself out of her rucksack, a smile lighting her happy gray eyes. "I personally know of six couples who met because of the Faire in the last two years, and they´re all happily married. So don´t worry; there are oodles of manly knights here, all of them dashing and daring and wildly romantic, just like my lamb." I rolled my eyes as I started back toward the car, located a hot, sweaty half mile away in a distant field. "Oh, yeah, your lamb, the man known to everyone as t...

Product details

• Authors: Katie MacAlister
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2004
• EAN: 9780451213860
• ISBN: 978-0-451-21386-0
• Dimensions: 108 mm x 171 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Signet Eclipse; Signet Eclipse
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature