Celestial Bodies

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by Laura Leone


  “Yes?” she prodded huskily.

  “Been able to jump him and...”

  “In the condition you were in?”

  “Sure, I’m a...”

  “What, Nick?”

  By the time her panties lay on the floor beside her jeans, he decided to let the subject drop. No harm in letting her think he really was the Knight of Swords, just this once.

  The End

  Author’s Note

  When I look at Celestial Bodies with the benefit hindsight—a tale in which, as Nick and Diana both admit, there’s no rational or earthbound explanation for some of the things that occur—it’s easy for me to see now that I would start writing fantasy before long, though I had no notion of it when I was working on this book.

  Within a year of finishing this novel, I would be invited (mostly by luck and by chance) to write a short story for a science fiction & fantasy anthology. I enjoyed the work; and the prolific anthologist Martin H. Greenberg liked my story and invited me into more anthologies. Within a couple of years, I had sold twenty short stories and had won the John W. Campbell Award (Best New Science Fiction/Fantasy Writer). So people started asking me when I was going to write a fantasy novel—and that’s when I started thinking about it. Since then, fantasy novels have become the mainstay of my writing career.

  I always thought my interest in fantasy began with writing short stories (and I continued writing for Marty Greenberg until he passed away in 2011); but looking back at Celestial Bodies now, I can see that I was already enjoying playing with paranormal phenomena and otherworldly mysteries even before that. So I guess my fate found me, just as the characters in this story meet their fate, too.

  I hope that you have enjoyed Celestial Bodies. I’m reissuing the rest of my Leone romance novels in ebook format, so check your favorite ebook vendor to see what’s available. You might also want to try some of my fantasy novels, such as my Esther Diamond series, which are paranormal novels about a struggling actress who gets involved in supernatural misadventures while being wooed by a skeptical cop.

  You can find more information about my books, some fun extras, and various excerpts on my website at www.LauraLeone.com.

  Also By This Author

  Romance Novels (written as Laura Leone)

  (Singe Title Contemporary)

  Fallen From Grace

  Fever Dreams

  (Erotic)

  Nights of Fire

  (Category/Series Romance)

  Sleight of Hand

  Celestial Bodies

  Guilty Secrets

  Ulterior Motives

  The Bandit King

  A Woman’s Work

  Mastersons In Paradise

  I: Untouched By Man

  II: Under the Voodoo Moon

  Fame

  I: A Wilder Name

  II: The Black Sheep

  Oak Hill

  I: One Sultry Summer

  II: Upon A Midnight Clear

  Fantasy Novels (written as Laura Resnick)

  Esther Diamond Series

  (Urban Fantasy)

  Disappearing Nightly

  Doppelgangster

  Unsympathetic Magic

  Vamparazzi

  Polterheist

  The Misfortune Cookie

  The Chronicles of Sirkara

  (Traditional Fantasy)

  In Legend Born

  The White Dragon

  The Destroyer Goddess

  Non-Fiction

  A Blonde In Africa

  Rejection, Romance, and Royalties (The Wacky World of A Working Writer)

  Short Fiction

  (Collected Works)

  Highway To Heaven

  Maybe You’ve Heard of Me?

  The Muse Afire

  About the Author

  Laura Resnick is the author of many books, short stories, articles, and columns. Her Esther Diamond urban fantasy series, which features the supernatural misadventures of a struggling actress in New York, has received enthusiastic praise from Library Journal and Publishers Weekly. The author’s epic fantasy novels include In Legend Born, The White Dragon, which made several “Year’s Best” lists, and The Destroyer Goddess, which Publishers Weekly describes as “a marvel of storytelling.”

  Before she began writing fantasy, Resnick was the award-wining author of more than a dozen contemporary romance novels, which she wrote under the pseudonym Laura Leone. Her romance novel Fallen From Grace was a Rita Award finalist and has been listed by DearAuthor.com as one of the best 100 novels in the genre.

  A longtime opinion columnist, Resnick’s book Rejection, Romance, and Royalties: The Wacky World of a Working Writer is a collection of her previous essays about the writing life and the publishing industry.

  You can find her on the Web at: www.LauraResnick.com

  Table of Contents

  Cover

  Dedication

  Foreword

  Author’s Note

  Also By This Author

  About the Author

 

 

 


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