KISMET’S KISS
2007 & 2009 Romance Writers of America
Golden Heart® Finalist
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Kismet’s Kiss is NOW AVAILABLE on the Amazon Kindle platform! Read it on any PC, Mac, iPhone, Android/Droid phone, or iPad as well as on a Kindle!
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“Magic, passion, and intrigue—Kismet’s Kiss has it all!
Cate Rowan’s uniquely compelling fantasy debut is set
in a fascinating and fully realized world where danger lurks
in every shadow. Rowan is definitely an author to watch!”
- Alyssa Day, New York Times bestselling author
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In the desert realm of Kad, a deadly epidemic strikes the palace of Sultan Kuramos. Only a magical healer from an enemy land may have the skill to save his household. He doesn’t realize that healer is a woman.
Varene finds her own surprises in Kad. She expects the sultan’s arrogance, but not his courage or his selfless care of the ill—or the possibility that the epidemic is the curse of a vengeful goddess.
Kaddite culture condemns Varene’s mystical talents and her presence triggers a plot to overthrow Kuramos. Yet as he and the healer toil for the cure, he loses his heart to her. She falls for him as well, but how can she relinquish her homeland and her principles for him—especially when he already has a harem and his family may be cursed?
To read the first four chapters of Kismet’s Kiss for FREE, click here.
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More praise for Kismet’s Kiss:
“A wonderful Arabian Nights story laced with humor and scheming with intriguing twists.”
– Robin D. Owens, RITA-winning author of Heart Thief and Guardian of Honor
“Kismet’s Kiss is a lush, inviting, immersive gem of a book. No one who loves being swept away by a great story should miss this. Utterly delicious fantasy…better than chocolate!”
– Kendra Leigh Castle, author of Call of the Highland Moon and Renegade Angel
“Kismet’s Kiss is a compelling tale of love and duty set amid the clash of cultures. A thoroughly enjoyable adventure!”
– Jana Oliver, author of the Time Rovers Series and Demon Trapper’s Daughter
“Kismet’s Kiss has everything a reader of fantasy could ask for—suspense, action, incredible world-building and magic. What captured me most was the electric chemistry between the Sultan and the Healer Varene, a romance so exquisitely crafted by the author that it kept me up all night, devouring every word until the very last page. Cate Rowan’s lyrical voice and ability to weave the most realistic relationship amidst a fantastical world left me a permanent fan. This story is a one-sitting read to be savored again and again by fans of all genres. I highly admire this promising new author and look forward to her next release!”
– Shelby Reed, author of The Fifth Favor and Midnight Rose
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ADDITIONAL NOVELS:
The Source of Magic
When perfectly normal Jilian Stewart lands in the midst of a magical battle clasped to a gorgeous man’s muscular chest, she thinks it must be another of her bizarre dreams. Plagued by an unnerving vision of this man, she’s sure it was brought on by the stress of her mother’s mysterious paralysis. Instead, she finds herself enmeshed in a mystical world of fantasy, family secrets, and treachery, opposing the one man who can make everything right. Prince Alvarr, her arrogant and unnervingly sexy abductor, offers a cure for her dying mother, but he won’t send Jilian home with it until she helps him destroy the mage threatening Teganne—with mystical powers she never knew she had.
The Ocean Between Us
(now in revisions)
Mareisa was born a mermaid and grew into a fiery beauty in Poseidon’s hedonistic underwater realm. One of the god’s jealous mistresses cursed Mareisa to live on two legs above the sea, burned by saltwater and damned to sing sailors to their doom.
Now Mareisa’s ruined life and island is invaded by a fierce and sexy mortal prince who seeks revenge on Poseidon—and who doesn’t yet realize she’s the Siren who destroyed his ship.
NOVELS IN PROGRESS:
Kismet’s Huntress
The brazen Princess Zahlia returns to her desert homeland and finds its Machiavellian ruler, her sister’s husband, tightening a sinister noose around their people. For Zahlia to overthrow him and free her sister, she must relinquish her cherished liberty and bind herself to a dangerous hunter, Khalid—the hot-blooded one-night-stand she’d sworn to her gods never to touch again.
Ambitious Khalid, long persecuted by the tyrannical ruler, stands to gain everything from the union—but wary Zahlia, who seduced him with a forest god’s magic spell, is the reward he really wants. Snared in a maze of deadly schemes and intrigue, can they forge a true bond from their passion and claim the thrones?
The Lure of Magic
(previously A Breach of Balance)
When the mage Rokad sacrifices his magical powers to protect his prince, he also forfeits his life purpose and his deepest joy. Asked to tutor the prince’s grown daughter Qiara, Rokad doubts whether anyone or anything could temper the fiery princess.
Will Qiara, a mage who craves a challenge to prove herself and her powers, discover how to heal Rokad’s broken soul—and win his heart?
The Faery Fiancée
A dangerous family secret forces the no-nonsense aristocrat Aleron on an insane quest: within ten days, he must woo, bed, and wed a woman with faery blood. And in that particular order.
A half-blooded faery, Zara, must procure an amulet to protect her newfound powers, or the god Hermes will filch her magic. The goddesses of Olympus are feisty Zara’s only hope, but to reach them, she needs skeptical Aleron’s help.
The last thing Zara wants is to behave like her wanton mother, but the hot-blooded Aleron has set his sights on her, and he is Temptation itself…
My Soul to Keep
Claire Alexander is a reclusive jewelry artist in California. She thinks her life’s working just fine, until she gets a mysterious package from her dead father. The green stone inside sends her soul into the body of Lyssa, an engaged and hunted woman on a medieval world. And soon Claire falls for dark and brooding Ronan, the best friend of Lyssa’s fiancé!
Can Claire unravel the secrets and undo the switch before both women’s lives are ruined—and will she be able to leave Ronan, the man who would give up his kin and his heritage to love her?
