My Coffee Pot Guest: Griffin Brady – The Hussar’s Duty

Book Title: The Hussar’s Duty

Series: The Winged Warrior
Series

Author: Griffin Brady

Publication Date: May 18,
2023

Publisher: Trefoil Publishing

Page Length: 538

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Read An Excerpt

Excerpt #2: Chapter 23 – Tremors

Oliwia had
donned her cloak and exited the castle walls, making for St. Lawrence’s vaulted
vestibules, black-and-white marble tiled floors, and high windows that threw
down prismed light. She should have arranged for a male escort, but said males
in her party were engaged in the tiltyards. Besides, Nadia walked beside her,
they were within the walls of the city, and the sun was high in the early
afternoon sky.

They
scurried across Viche Square into the welcoming embrace of the cathedral’s
walls. Nerves that had been jangling off and on for days suddenly calmed as she
dipped her fingers in the font’s cool water, genuflected, and crossed herself
under the watchful eyes of the archangels high above the glorious altar. She had
come to love those angels.

The
place was stunning … and mostly empty, which gave her an opportunity to linger
as long as she pleased. She lit candles for each of her children, her brother,
and Jacek, before selecting a pew close to the front. Kneeling, she bent her
head over her hands clasped in prayer, dimly aware that Nadia sat several pews
back.

Mary, Mother of God, I beseech
you, please protect …

How
long her prayers ran on and how much she repeated them, she could not say. When
she lifted her head, shadows moved across the high windows. Glancing over her
shoulder, she glimpsed Nadia sitting, rather than kneeling, and the maid seemed
to be asleep. Oliwia suppressed a smile and sent one last prayer heavenward.
She made to rise, but her knees and lower legs had gone numb. Eyes cast
downward, she rearranged herself and grasped the pew to heave herself to her
feet. A looming shadow, followed by a rank smell, had her eyes flying fully
open. A man she did not recognize stood beside her, broadside to the altar so
that he faced her side.

He
crowded her. “Ain’t this a fortunate coincidence?” Breath fouled with the smell
of decaying teeth and spirits blasted her, and his raspy voice sent alarm bells
clanging in her head. She knew that voice! She turned to run, but a viselike
grip clamped down on her arm. “Such a fine, fine lady. I have been dreaming of
you ever since our encounter, my pet. Let’s go somewhere quiet where we can
become better acquainted and tend to our unfinished business.”

My pet?

Terror
seized her, and she kicked out, landing a blow to the man’s inner thigh. She
had missed her mark, but he howled nonetheless, giving her a split second to
whirl and run to the main aisle. Nadia startled to life and took off in the
opposite direction toward one of the chapels. Behind Oliwia, the man thumped
his way along the pew, though his steps were clumsy, uneven.

Finally
unhampered by the pew, Oliwia ran shrieking down the aisle. “Help!
Highwayman! Help!”

A
stunned priest and several worshippers were congregated in a portal. The priest
shouted for a guard, and Oliwia slowed enough to look over her shoulder. Her
would-be attacker was headed for the sanctuary with all haste, but Nadia …
Where was Nadia?

About the Author

Griffin Brady is an award-winning historical fiction author with a keen interest in the Polish Winged Hussars of the 16th and 17th centuries. She is a member of the Historical Novel Society and Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers. Her debut novel, The Heart of a Hussar, was a finalist for the 2021 Chaucer Early Historical Fiction Award and a 2021 Discovered Diamond.

The proud mother three grown sons, she lives in Colorado with her husband. She is also an award-winning bestselling romance author who writes under the pen name G.K. Brady.

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