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Fated Mates: Love Me Tomorrow / Secrets of the Wind / Warlord's Destiny
Warlord's Destiny by Delilah Devlin
Mora has no illusions she's anything other than the sacrificial lamb to ensure peace between her planet and the warlike world that demands a royal union with one of their own. However, when she meets the rugged warlord who will be her husband, Mora decides in that moment to win his heart—she'll settle for nothing less. When Lord Tetrik suspects his wife harbors tender feelings, he wonders if he can be the husband she desires. After all, love for a woman is a frivolous thing—and not a warlord's destiny.
Love Me Tomorrow by Sally Painter
Earth 2360.
Shalene Courers leads freedom fighters against the Demrons to retrieve a crystal that is the secret to Earth's defense. When she captures the mysterious Mecah—tall, blond and very sexy—desires flame and the interrogation soon melts under his scorching passion.
Mecah's possession of Shalene is more than lust—she's the kismet mate he's sought all his life, only she doesn't believe him. Shalene and Mecah join forces to turn the tide of war, but without winning the heart and soul of his fated mate he stand to lose his greatest battle.
Secrets of the Wind by Charlotte Boyett-Compo
Prince Ruan is in need of protection—though by his reckoning he can bloody well take care of himself. Ruan is in the sights of an assassin who will stop at nothing to kill him.
Major Chastain Neff is a lethal weapon in her own right. As one of the elite Riezell Guardians, she is an expert in all the deadly arts that have made her an accomplished bodyguard to the rich and important. When she is assigned to protect a man who believes she's the one who needs the protecting, she knows she's going to have her hands full with Ruan Cosaint.
Queen Annalyn is not a woman to leave things to chance, especially when the mystic's message pointed to a woman fated to become Prince Ruan's consort, the ruler of his heart, his protector and the mother of his children.
Mora has no illusions she's anything other than the sacrificial lamb to ensure peace between her planet and the warlike world that demands a royal union with one of their own. However, when she meets the rugged warlord who will be her husband, Mora decides in that moment to win his heart—she'll settle for nothing less. When Lord Tetrik suspects his wife harbors tender feelings, he wonders if he can be the husband she desires. After all, love for a woman is a frivolous thing—and not a warlord's destiny.
Love Me Tomorrow by Sally Painter
Earth 2360.
Shalene Courers leads freedom fighters against the Demrons to retrieve a crystal that is the secret to Earth's defense. When she captures the mysterious Mecah—tall, blond and very sexy—desires flame and the interrogation soon melts under his scorching passion.
Mecah's possession of Shalene is more than lust—she's the kismet mate he's sought all his life, only she doesn't believe him. Shalene and Mecah join forces to turn the tide of war, but without winning the heart and soul of his fated mate he stand to lose his greatest battle.
Secrets of the Wind by Charlotte Boyett-Compo
Prince Ruan is in need of protection—though by his reckoning he can bloody well take care of himself. Ruan is in the sights of an assassin who will stop at nothing to kill him.
Major Chastain Neff is a lethal weapon in her own right. As one of the elite Riezell Guardians, she is an expert in all the deadly arts that have made her an accomplished bodyguard to the rich and important. When she is assigned to protect a man who believes she's the one who needs the protecting, she knows she's going to have her hands full with Ruan Cosaint.
Queen Annalyn is not a woman to leave things to chance, especially when the mystic's message pointed to a woman fated to become Prince Ruan's consort, the ruler of his heart, his protector and the mother of his children.
202 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2005
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March 10, 2020
Love Me Tomorrow ***
Secrets of the Wind *****
Warlord's Destiny *****
Secrets of the Wind *****
Warlord's Destiny *****
June 22, 2009
Nice read-once. Multi-author anthology with the three stories on the theme of 'fated' mates. All of them are mildly futuristic, other planets and spaceships appear, but generally have little to do with the story. Love Me Tomorrow By Sally Painter is the exception - Earth was invaded by alien lizard-like creatures who are the ultimate 'consumers' and have been consuming Earth's natural resources ever since. The remnants of the human population are hiding underground. On a foray aboveground the heroine captures the hero, a psychic humanoid alien, and takes him back underground to be interrogated. He is overjoyed since he has found his Kismet, soul mate, and is busy making sure she feels it too. Through a series of sadly unbelievable events they have a lot of hot sexy mind melds plus lots of hot sex and they save the world. Charlotte Boyett-Compo's Secrets of the Wind mixes new and old; it starts in an futuristic city complete with hovercraft hot rods and ends up in a kingdom where they choose to ride horses instead. Heroine is ostensibly hired as a bodyguard for the Prince by the Queen but is actually 'bait' to get her son to wed rather than just bed... The author throws in a lot of weirdly spelled words which imply words in current use such as Caitliceachs/Catholics, Protastnuach/Protestant and dochtuir/doctor. In Warlord's Destiny By Delilah Devlin the barbarian prince was promised the fair flower of the royal house as the price for saving the kingdom. But her family plays 'bait and switch' by marrying him off to the OTHER princess. Of course he likes her MUCH better, the curves her people sneered at as chunky he recognizes as very, very sexy! The best part was the 'First Bedding' which ended up involving four other very limber people [at least one of which swung both ways:] and a VERY large bed.
November 18, 2013
For an anthology called "Fated Mates" there wasn't a whole lot of Fated Mates, or even many HEA's. Hell the first story, "Warlord's Destiny" I wouldn't say ended with a HFN. The hero makes a gesture and the heroine "accepts" that he doesn't love her so she'll just love him and their kids enough to make him love her. WTF? And there wasn't a fate mate of any kind to be seen.
Love Me Tomorrow was weird and it seemed like the "Kismet" stuff was an afterthought for the Lizard Aliens (just go with it). But there was fated mates and a HFN, so yay?
Secret's of the Wind had no place being in an anthology. It starts in a hopefully already established world, but either way I had no clue what was going on. There was talk of a lot different countries with bizzare names and all sorts of (I assume) political intrigue and warring going on. The "hero" sleeps with another woman after meeting Chas, actually that's not true, he finds a maid and has sex with her, doesn't get off and then demands she fellate him. No world-building was done, the characters were awful or just there and the "fated mates" connection was "explained" in two sentences. And it really didn't make a hell of a lot of sense. Also the heroine a bad-ass soldier spends the whole book pretending to be a demure lady.
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Love Me Tomorrow was weird and it seemed like the "Kismet" stuff was an afterthought for the Lizard Aliens (just go with it). But there was fated mates and a HFN, so yay?
Secret's of the Wind had no place being in an anthology. It starts in a hopefully already established world, but either way I had no clue what was going on. There was talk of a lot different countries with bizzare names and all sorts of (I assume) political intrigue and warring going on. The "hero" sleeps with another woman after meeting Chas, actually that's not true, he finds a maid and has sex with her, doesn't get off and then demands she fellate him. No world-building was done, the characters were awful or just there and the "fated mates" connection was "explained" in two sentences. And it really didn't make a hell of a lot of sense. Also the heroine a bad-ass soldier spends the whole book pretending to be a demure lady.
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May 24, 2008
3.5 to 3.75 stars
"Fated Mates" contains three stories by Delilah Devlin, Sally Painter, and Charlotte Boyett-Compo. The only author I was really familiar with was Delilah Devlin. I was pleasantly surprised to find I enjoyed all three stories.
"Love Me Tomorrow" by Sally Painter is a futuristic tale of humans fighting to regain their planet. The story tells what happens when a female Earthling warrior captures what she assumes is an ally of her enemy, but turns out to be her fated mate.
"Secrets of the Wind" by Charlotte Boyett-Compo has a more historical feel in the tale of a female bodyguard chosen to protect a wild Prince. What she doesn't know is that she has also been selected to be his mate!
"Warlord's Destiny" by Delilah Devlin. Although Mora has been given in marriage to secure protection for her world, she's not willing to settle. She WILL teach her barbarian how to love.
Definately erotica, but also very interesting in the ways each author approaches relationship building when both partners are strong.
"Fated Mates" contains three stories by Delilah Devlin, Sally Painter, and Charlotte Boyett-Compo. The only author I was really familiar with was Delilah Devlin. I was pleasantly surprised to find I enjoyed all three stories.
"Love Me Tomorrow" by Sally Painter is a futuristic tale of humans fighting to regain their planet. The story tells what happens when a female Earthling warrior captures what she assumes is an ally of her enemy, but turns out to be her fated mate.
"Secrets of the Wind" by Charlotte Boyett-Compo has a more historical feel in the tale of a female bodyguard chosen to protect a wild Prince. What she doesn't know is that she has also been selected to be his mate!
"Warlord's Destiny" by Delilah Devlin. Although Mora has been given in marriage to secure protection for her world, she's not willing to settle. She WILL teach her barbarian how to love.
Definately erotica, but also very interesting in the ways each author approaches relationship building when both partners are strong.
December 19, 2013
I didn't like any of the stories, granted they are all short but yikes pacing was off in all three, characters are not fleshed out at all and the storylines would just finish, stop. I have read stories by all three of these authors and these three shorts are not indicative of their usual writing and story telling skills.
July 29, 2010
Fun sexy read. Interested in the others in this series.
January 7, 2011
Secrets of the Wind by Charlotte Boyett-Compo: 2 stars
Warlord's Destiny by Delilah Devlin: 3 stars
Love Me Tomorrow by Sally Paintr: 3 stars
Warlord's Destiny by Delilah Devlin: 3 stars
Love Me Tomorrow by Sally Paintr: 3 stars
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