Taming the King
by Samantha Winston

King Henri of Bavars has a problem. When his wife, Queen Fairlight Summer Willow, died in childbirth, he promised to remarry only a woman who looked just like her. Many years later, Marquisa, a fairy related to his late wife, shows up and demands he keep his promise...by marrying her.

Henri's problem is compounded by his intense feelings for another fairy, Fairlight Winter Violet Frost. Violet has spent the last 18 years raising Henri's orphan daughter, Princess Water Lily. She has managed to hide her feelings for him, knowing he was in mourning all those years for his lost wife.

Now Henri must choose. He must either honor his late wife's dying wish, or follow his heart, the one leading him to Violet.

Samantha Winston's Bio

Samantha Winston is the pen name for Jennifer Macaire, an American freelance writer/illustrator. She was born in Kingston, NY and lived in Samoa, California and the Virgin Islands before moving to France. She attended Parsons school of design for fine art, and Palm Beach Junior College for art and English literature. She worked for five years as a model for Elite. Married to a professional polo player, she has three children.

After settling in France, she started writing full time and published short stories in such magazines as Polo Magazine, PKA's Advocate, The Bear Deluxe, Nuketown, The Eclipse, Anotherealm, Linnaean Street, Inkspin, Literary Potpourri, Mind Caviar and the Vestal Review. One of her short stories was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. In June 2002 she won the 3am/Harper Collins flash fiction contest for her story 'There are Geckos'.

As Jennifer Macaire, she has written a series of seven fiction novels based on the life of Alexander the Great -- the first, Time for Alexander published by Jacobyte Books in April 2002. Book two, Heroes in the Dust, will appear in March 2003, also with Jacobyte. Her science fiction novel Virtual Murder will be published by Novel Books, Inc. in March 2003, and Angels On Crusade, a fiction novel about the ill-fated eighth crusade, will appear in October 2003.

She's had several novels accepted from Ellora's Cave, the first of which is A Grand Passion.