More Than Prophecy [Paperback]

Shannon Leigh (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2005

According to ancient prophecy, a woman will come from Earth to bear a child who will end the warring between the Ramekah and Andreas clans, warring that has plagued the hold folk of Zandar for hundreds of years. On the tail of a magical zephyr, Cheyenne, a young Native American woman, is swept through the doorway of an interplanetary portal and whisked away from Earth in a dazing blur of motion. She's deposited, alone and half-naked, in a valley between the grassy knolls of the Rhian Mountains and the dreaded Goetic forest, just inside the boundaries of Andreas Territory.

It's there that Lord Darian Andreas, ruler of the mighty Andreas Clan and master of the powerful Andreas Territory, finds her. Although Darian is a just man who exercises kindness and incorporates mercy into his method of rule-which, in the barbaric world of Zandar, are rare qualities for a man-he's also used to getting what he wants, one way or another. And from the moment Darian lays eyes on the dark-skinned beauty, he knows she's meant to be his. If the Gods are willing, he'll make it so...

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...A thrilling ride from the very first page right up to the surprising ending!" -- Chere Gruver, Sensual Romance Reviews

About the Author

Amy Leigh is the pen name of romance author Brenda Smith-Beagley. Brenda grew up in the small mid-west town of Janesville, Wisconsin. The daughter of an artist, she tried her hand at painting and figured out early in life she was able to express herself better with words. Her mother is a talented seamstress and floral designer and gave up any hope of her daughter ever following in her footsteps when Brenda tore out the zipper of her Home-Ec skirt nine times and still sewed it crooked. Upon graduation from Craig High School (Go Cougars!), she accepted a scholarship to play basketball for the University of Missouri, where she enrolled in the School of Journalism. At Missouri she met her future husband who followed her from economics to philosophy class MWF. After two years, warm weather and the Pac-Ten beckoned. She transferred to the University of Arizona at Tucson where she was a starting center and team Co-Captain for the Lady Wildcats. Go Wildcats!! While at Arizona, Brenda developed an interest in fiction writing. Who else but a future author would take fiction writing classes as electives? She graduated with a BA in Radio-Television. Shortly after she married her college sweetheart, in a five-minute ceremony in Las Vegas, they moved to Phoenix. Her husband's career in Public Relations has taken them to Arizona, California, New Jersey, Colorado and Texas, where she currently resides. Aside from writing, she substitute teaches and keeps busy attending her young son and daughter's sporting events. Much to the dismay of the coaches, Brenda is one of those obnoxious parents who can be heard from the stands shouting instructions to the kids. She is a member of Romance Writers of America, North Texas Area Romance Writers, and The Heart of Denver Romance Writers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 378 pages
• Publisher: Amber Quill Press, LLC (January 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592798071
• ISBN-13: 978-1592798070
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,730,595 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Shannon Leigh is a practicing registered nurse who graduated with a B.S.N. R.N. from the Indiana University School of nursing in May of 1996. She lives in Indiana with her husband, four sons, dog, and cat. Shannon and her family enjoy camping, fishing, and sitting out back while a cozy fire crackles in the fire pit. In her spare time, Shannon likes to decorate cakes, scrapbook, draw, read, write, and watch movies.

Despite a hectic schedule, Shannon tries to dedicate a couple of hours every day to writing, usually sometime between the hours of 9 P.M. and 3 A.M., after everyone else is in bed. She likes to curl up on the couch with her laptop, a cup of hot tea, the cat, and become engrossed in her characters.

Along with reading other romance genres, Shannon loves suspense, fantasy, and horror, but paranormal fiction remains her favorite. She has several stories available at Amber Quill Press as well as a short story published with Wild Child Publishing. While most involve some paranormal aspect, she has dabbled in contemporary, and more recently, science fiction.

Her full-length novel, More Than Prophecy, is a paranormal romance involving interplanetary travel to a world known as Zandar, and is currently available in both e-book and print format. In addition, she has several short erotica stories available as e-books. With such an active imagination, she always has something in works.

To find out more about Shannon's writing and her published stories, please visit her website.

Shannon Leigh
http://shannonleigh.org
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Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars Alternate worlds, February 9, 2006

By 

Jean Cooper "eleanordew" (Charlottesville) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: More Than Prophecy (Paperback)

[Note: This review is of the digital edition of this book.]

Cheyenne had just gotten off work as a nurse at the hospital when she was caught up in a storm of wind and lightning. When the lightning had died down, she discovered that she was no longer in the Southwest U.S. - she was in a grassland of rolling hills that was totally strange to her. At first, the place seems deserted, but then she sees a group of men on horseback riding toward her. As they get closer, Cheyenne realizes that these are not people from Earth, but strangers with swords! Unfortunately, the men have seen her and, although she struggles, they take her captive. Now trapped, Cheyenne must learn how to survive in this strange world, where her presence is considered the answer to a prophecy that is hundreds of years old.

I was quite wrapped up in this novel of alternate worlds and, in spite of its super-size length, I read it in one day. This is a very enjoyable novel about a modern Native American woman being drawn through a rift in ... time? space? ... and coming to the planet of Sandra to face her destiny. The heroine must come to terms with the changes in her life, and with the disparity of what she had thought was her future to what it will actually be. The character of Cheyenne is complex and carefully developed, and matures throughout the book from an untried girl into a woman. The other characters - mostly male - are more simplistic and less complex, and never displace Cheyenne as the center of the novel. The sex scenes are sensual and emotional, but not too graphic or explicit. There are numerous scenes of jeopardy in which the heroine is threatened by violence, but not to worry - she perseveres. I must say that the author has, even taking into account its length, skillfully written an engrossing novel and I recommend it for fans of futuristic romance. -- Jean, Fallen Angel Reviews (courtesy of Fallen Angel Reviews)

4.0 out of 5 stars An old tale, new twist, February 22, 2005

By 

Linda Suzane "Linda Suzane" (www.midnightblood.com) - See all my reviews

This review is from: More Than Prophecy (Paperback)

A rather old and trite tale. Someone from our modern world is magically transported to a primitive world. If the person is male, invariably he becomes a great warrior, a champion who saves the world. If a female, she is kidnaped and ravished by an arrogant, virile barbarian warrior, whom she falls desperately in love with despite the overbearing way he treats her.

MORE THAN PROPHECY begins just that way. Cheyenne finds herself on Zander in the hands of a exquisitely handsome, but extremely arrogant barbarian. In a world where women are considered possessions to be fought over, Cheyenne struggles to keep her virginity and her self respect, all the while succumbing to Darian's irresistible attraction.

If you are one of those lovers of romance where the two characters fall instantly in love, then spend most of the book fighting their attraction and being hurt over silly misunderstandings, then you will find MORE THAN PROPHECY just the kind of book you enjoy, with no surprises. Well, maybe some.

After what I considered an overly typical, albeit romantic beginning, the story takes off as Cheyenne finds herself kidnaped and threatened with rape, more than once, and of course rescued. When she and Darian finally get all those silly misunderstandings out of the way and acknowledge that they love each other, then the story gets interesting. For it has been prophesied that a girl from Earth, bearing a mark (her tattoo), will give birth to a great leader that will end the fighting between the clans. Now every clan leader wants to bed her and sire her child. Can she and Darian somehow manage to make sure that it is the only man that she truly loves who will win her?

Shannon Leigh has done a good job at adding an interesting twist to the old classic storyline. She definitely has enough romance in this book to satisfy the romance lovers, spunky heroine, macho pigheaded males, and gobs of sexual tension. If the fantasy world is a little shop-worn and the reliance on prophecy a little too contrived, it is still a romance novel in all its glory.