Lily of the Valley - Book Tour and Giveaway

​ A hunted princess. A reclusive woodcutter. A laughing forest.  

Lily of the Valley
by Megan Derr
Genre: Fantasy Romance  

 Lily is the first crown princess her kingdom has ever had, and many look forward to having a queen on the throne someday. Others are vehemently against it, and the anger stirred up by dramatic and severe changes to certain laws is causing even more turmoil.

When that tension finally explodes, Lily finds herself running for her life, forced to leave behind everything she knows and plunge blindly into the dense, dangerous forest that surrounds the royal palace. A forest said to be filled with ancient ruins, monsters, and ghosts who laugh at unwary travelers.

Instead of finding monsters and ghosts, Lily is found by a woodcutter, gruff and quiet and clearly not pleased to be saddled with an uninvited guest who doesn't even know how to fetch water from a well. But Lily has nowhere else to go, and no way of getting home safely, not when there are people still looking to remove her head.

If she hopes to live long enough to claim her throne, she must first prove her worth to the woman who can't wait to be rid of her.


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​ Lily closed her eyes more tightly, pressing her balled up hands to her temples, desperately trying to will away the memory of her father being shot. Bleeding out in front of her. She hadn't even gotten to say goodbye.
Had any of her friends survived? Or had they been cut down by those despicable Black Wolves? Lily would round them up and hang them, the bastards. She'd make Ferdinand watch and then stab him in the face.
First, though, she needed to heal. She couldn't do anything else until she could walk properly.
The door opened, bringing in the smell of earth and recent rain—and a tall, broad woman who looked like she spent more time with bears or wolves than people. At that, she probably did, living all the way out in the middle of nowhere.
"You're awake," the woman said, shrugging off the fur draped over her shoulders and hanging it on a hook by the door, along with an axe and other items. "How do you feel?"
"My feet and ribs hurt, but that's to be expected. Thank you for saving me, Mistress…?"
"Scout. Just Scout. Ain't nobody's mistress," Scout said brusquely. "Who are you, then?"
Lily started to reply, then froze. Giving her real name would be the height of stupidity. "Aubrey. Brey, if you prefer." That was her middle name, and common enough. "Where am I?"
Grunting, Scout moved further into the cabin, setting down what appeared to be some recently killed hares before going to stoke the fire. She was a handsome woman, broad and solid like an oak tree. Her skin was white, but heavily tanned, which made sense. Her hair was cut as short as any man's, barely long enough to get a grip on, though what a strange and errant thought that was. Lily couldn't see the color of her eyes, but they were probably brown or something equally as rustic and woodsy as the rest of her. "You're in the Laughing Forest, girl. Right near the heart of it. What foolishness brought you out here to nearly get yourself killed?"
"Foolishness?" Lily said, bristling. "You act like I want to be here, like I chose to be chased down by a bunch of nasty, cretinous wolves after they—they attacked the royal palace and all of us had to run for our lives."
Scout turned sharply, her eyes almost seeming to flare with blue light for a moment, but that made no sense. It must be some strange trick of the light. "What do you mean, wolves? A pack of wolves?"
"A pack of men," Lily replied bitterly. "They're called the Black Wolves. Murdered the king, other people. I was there when it happened, and ran before they could kill me too." There. That was close to the truth, so she didn't have to keep track of lies, without revealing anything about herself that would put her in danger.
"That's quite the tale," Scout replied.
Lily drew herself up, shoulders back, chin up, ignoring all the pain that screamed in protest of her movements. "It's not a tale."
"We'll see." Rolling up her sleeves, Scout retrieved the rabbits and vanished through the door next to the fireplace.
Of all the nerve.
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 Megan is a long-time resident of queer romance and keeps herself busy reading and writing it. She is often accused of fluff and nonsense. When she’s not involved in writing, she likes to cook, harass her wife and cats, or watch movies. She loves to hear from readers and can be found all over the internet.


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