Multi-published and award-winning Raleigh author, Nancy Lee Badger, presents a paranormal romance set in North Carolina filled with a fabulous art museum, the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the terror of the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Hatteras. A love of art, especially the bronze sculptures by the French master, August Rodin, helped give her ideas that brought this story to life. Although previously published by a small publishing house, this series never had a chance to get into the hands of many readers. She has re-edited Heaven Sent Warrior and will widely distribute the series. This is a stand-alone full-length book is the first book in the Warriors in Bronze novels to be followed by Heaven-sent Highlander. Heaven Sent Warrior released 4/15/25!
Asleep inside a bronze statue, a naked Frenchman wakes a century later to save a half-Fae, museum curator from a demon bent on ruling our present-day world.
Henrí Chevalier’s last memory, before stumbling naked into a museum’s moonlit garden, was Auguste Rodin and his dusty Paris studio in 1886. To escape his broken heart, Henrí volunteered to sleep inside a statue until needed. Expecting to die, he discovers he must learn to use the unexpected powers Heaven has given him. Without them he will fail his mission against otherworldly creatures, such as demons and faeries.
Kenzie Mackintosh, a dedicated art museum’s curator, spies a naked man hiding among bronze statues. A quick glance ignites desire within her, but she is too tied-up in work to act on it. Unaware of her fae heritage, their relationship heats up as he disrupts her job. While Henrí tries to process modern buildings, cars, and a broken elevator, a demon attacks and forces Henrí and Kenzie to enlist the aid of her powerful fae relatives. When the demon possesses the body of her ex-lover and threatens to kill him, then use her to take over the world, Henrí and Kenzie must learn to trust each other, even if Kenzie’s death might be the only answer to the world’s salvation.
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“We’re trapped.” Kenzie’s whispered words made Henrí’s shoulder muscles tense. She twisted her fingers into claws that gripped his waist and trembled.
He gathered her close, while fear rattled him.
Mon Dieu! My nightmare has come true.
This time period seemed fraught with more dangers than any he had faced during the Siege de Paris. The battle against the Prussians had caused his sixteen-year-old self to grow up fast. Henrí forced memories of death, blood, and needless carnage back inside the dark place in his mind.
Concentrate on here and now. On her.
“Are you okay?” she asked with a shaky voice.
“This is strange and makes dark memories return,” he answered. She smelled wonderful, of meadows in spring, and forests filled with the rich scent of moss. He focused on her fragrance to calm his thudding heart. Fear fed on fear. He had learned that on the eve of battle, from his commanding officer. If he showed no fear, and she followed his example, she would tell him what to do next.
“The elevator might start by itself. We can wait a few minutes. Tell me more about . . . Rodin,” she whispered.
“I recall how regally my master had stood before me in that cold, dark studio. Rodin said he planned to send me into the beyond inside a statue.”
“And you said yes? Were you crazy?”
“Oui, I agreed by reciting the pledge.”
“Why would you do such a thing?” Her hand stroked his cheek in the dark confines of the unmoving moving room.
Heat penetrated his skin, making him feel more alive than when he first awoke. The dark interior of the small space warmed, and his body inched forward until his chest pressed against her. He blinked, though the darkness did not waver.
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Nancy Lee Badger grew up in Huntington on New York’s Long Island. After attending Plymouth State, in New Hampshire, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree and met and married her college sweetheart. They raised two handsome sons in Rumney, New Hampshire while she dreamed of being a writer. When the children had left the nest, and shoveling snow became a chore, she retired from her satisfying job as a 911 Emergency Medical Dispatcher and moved to North Carolina, where she writes full-time.
Nancy is a former member of Romance Writers of America and its local chapter, The Heart of Carolina Romance Writers, as well as the Fantasy-Futuristic & Paranormal Romance Writers. She is currently a member of the Triangle Association of Freelancers based in the Raleigh area. She finds story ideas in the most unusual places.
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