Monday, June 24, 2019

*Book Tour & Giveaway* The Knights of Camelot by Sarah Luddington-GUEST POST


Lancelot and the King
The Knights of Camelot Book 1
by Sarah Luddington
Genre: M/M Historical Fantasy Romance 

A love long-held, the love of a knight for his king, a love which must be denied.

Lancelot is banished from Camelot in disgrace, not only has he lost his honour and country, but too late he realises he has lost his love.

When duty calls him to return, Lancelot doesn’t think twice and once more puts on his armour. If his king needs him and he is called to the sword, he knows where he must be.

His country is threatened, the dark wings of war are gathering and his love... that will just have to wait.

The needs of one man’s heart cry for peace, but Lancelot understands what he must do.

He will stand shoulder to shoulder with the man he loves and if they survive the battlefields, if they can survive the peace, then maybe, just maybe, a knight and his king can put aside their call to arms and listen to the call of their hearts.

The Knights of Camelot series is a reimagining of the Arthurian legends. Each book features two (or more) men in love with one another, steamy encounters, and more. These books are not intended to be read as standalones, so be sure to start at the beginning with Lancelot and the King.




Lancelot and the Sword
The Knights of Camelot Book 2

A powerful new threat looms over Camelot and the fleeting sanctuary of love is shattered. Maybe beyond repair.

Lancelot and Arthur must place their joy on hold to save the kingdom.

As chaos takes hold over the land, the time for tender passion has passed. This is the time for heroes, the time for a king and his greatest knight to make a stand and lead their country through the fires of war.

But in the midst of the battles sometimes the needs of the moment demand sacrifice and a trust is broken.

With the blood of betrayal still running, Lancelot finds himself drawn to another. Perhaps in Tancred’s tender embrace he might just find the peace he so desperately craves.

But a jealous king is a dangerous creature and the ghosts of the dead are intent on hounding a broken soul to the grave.


Lancelot and the Grail
The Knights of Camelot Book 3

A broken and shattered knight hides from the world and from the man who destroyed him. Betrayed by the man he loved, Lancelot vows that the only way he will return is to see the heart of his king staining the floors of Camelot.

Then one day, a gentler soul tracks down the tormented knight and sets to repairing a mind so damaged, there may never be a way back. When Tancred finds Lancelot, he is barely recognisable.

The revenant of a once powerful knight, with a heart which burns so intensely, it is only the pain which gives life.

But Tancred is not going to lose a soulmate he has spent a lifetime waiting to find.

Lancelot will return and his sword is thirsty for blood. The power of the Grail and the fury of Excalibur are turned on the enemies of Camelot in a race to save a kingdom and a brotherhood bound in blood.




Lancelot’s Challenge
The Knights of Camelot Book 4

With King Arthur’s blood still fresh on Lancelot’s hands, a deal is struck. A deal which will bind the knight to an evil power in return for the life of the man he loves.

Lancelot is forced to work for the fey in a bargain which is set to unleash a new terror on the lands. A force so powerful that even the gods step back to watch.

With Tancred at his side, the vengeful knight must bide his time and play the fey’s games.

Games which will cost Lancelot his soul if he cannot find a way to defeat the evil which grows. But when the final prophecy is revealed, Lancelot must challenge his fate alone.




Lancelot’s Burden
The Knights of Camelot Book 5

The gods play games, and Albion’s gods seem to enjoy the chase. When chaos descends the gentlest soul will break.

When that soul belongs to the man to whom Lancelot has given his heart, death is coming for the tormenters.

Lancelot is now the king of Albion and his sword will destroy her enemies. Even if those enemies are more powerful than anything he could have dreamed.

But first he needs to save his love. A man so destroyed that his thirst for revenge will not stop until the kingdom runs red.

Forced to make alliances with once hated enemies, the needs of war forge dangerous bedfellows.

To save a kingdom may just cost Lancelot the only thing he has left. His soul.




Lancelot’s Curse
The Knights of Camelot Book 6

With only one chance to save his lover, and his land, Lancelot must make a new deal with the gods.

They will demand everything Lancelot holds and take the last threads of hope from his heart.

The torment that the god of chaos and misery sets to work in Lancelot’s life, threatens to destroy Albion and Camelot, but the god never figured on the power of love and with Arthur’s help, there may just be a way to survive such sadness.

Lancelot must find a way to stop their destruction before Camelot, Albion and Tancred are lost forever. This time there is no hope, no battle he can win, no twist to save his cursed life.

The knight turns his eyes to the heavens and his curse follows on a swift sword.

His only hope is that the sacrifice he gives proves to be enough to save his lost love.




Betrayal of Lancelot
The Knights of Camelot Book 7

For six hundred years, Lancelot has been lost.

Lost in a world so far from Camelot that his blood stills and his soul craves nothing but oblivion. Six hundred years of fighting other men’s wars and bedding other men’s lovers. Six hundred years of death.

But Fate wants her hero back and Lancelot must give up this new world of machines and cities to return to Albion.

The gods are rising and Mordred has a new ally.

An ally more fearsome than any Lancelot has ever encountered.

With Arthur once more by his side, they face what they believe will be their final battle. An appointment with the darkest soul in Albion and his even darker god.




Passion of Lancelot
The Knights of Camelot Book 8

When the battle rests, the hearts are laid bare.

Lancelot has destroyed the person who loved him and who brought him back from the dead. Tancred lies broken and Arthur will never release his hold on Lancelot.

But wars have no time for broken hearts and the three men are all that stand between Camelot and the advancing armies in the north. Somehow they must find a way to put the pain of broken love to one side before all is lost under the gathering evil.

They must learn to trust each other once more, if only for one last time. Camelot needs its greatest knights now; there will be time enough for hearts to heal when the battle is done.

If they survive.



Revenge of Lancelot
The Knights of Camelot Book 9

When a god strips you of everything you love, what is there left to do but fight?

Lancelot, Arthur and Tancred face their god of madness and chaos in the centre of the world. Fate holds her breath as the three heroes draw on the last of their strength to bring peace to Albion.

But can a warrior ever be still? Is there a place where heroes can sleep? Or is there only death for those who made death their lives?

Lancelot knows he is facing his final battle, but it is not the battle of the sword he fears, it is the battle of the heart.

If he is victorious, he will secure peace for Albion for eternity. Yet still his heart aches.

The fiercest knight that Camelot has ever known is fearful of the fragile soul his battered body conceals.

There may be only one answer and the thought scares him more than any enemy he has ever faced.




Lancelot- The Lost Years: The Spear
The Knights of Camelot Book 10

The voices of the past are often too strong to resist. I have been away from Camelot and Albion for five long centuries. Occasionally though, a soul brushes against mine and I feel it... I feel love in all its forms regardless of the cost. No one can replace Arthur or Tancred, but there are souls in this long lonely life that make it bearable, even happy, and I live only for those candle flashes of hope.”



Lancelot is cursed to walk the world alone. His is the immortal Knight of Camelot, cast adrift after angering the god Balar. Time drifts endlessly for him until he finds a reason to live.

Lady Elizabeth Rothschild is a noble of the Great British Empire and she is going to prove that a noble woman can control just as much as a noble man. Her tool for this mission is a man called Lance Ash, a drunkard, a whoremonger, a wastrel, but someone very good at his job. He is her treasure hunter, and she wants him to find the Holy Spear which pierced the flank of the true God.

Lance Ash knows exactly how dangerous such a quest can be for all involved, but when he meets the Lady Rothschild’s half brother, Lance Ash is lost and Lancelot du Lac is reborn.

A Knights of Camelot story which takes place between Lancelot’s Curse and Betrayal of Lancelot.





Sarah Luddington is the author of historical gay romance and contemporary gay romance. She is a gay rights activist, holds three martial arts black belts, a degree in Medieval History and far too many dogs. She lives on a mountain in Spain and in her spare time writes and reads LGBT fiction.

Come and visit her website at www.romanticadventures.net or Facebook for more information. She always welcomes contact with her readers.
Many thanks.



GUEST POST
Do the characters all come to you at the same time or do some of them come to you as you write?

Most of the characters come to me as I write. In the Camelot series Tancred doesn’t appear until book two and was supposed to die at the end of Lancelot and the Sword but… Spoiler alert – Lancelot couldn’t let him go so he stayed and didn’t that ever create a love triangle to end all love triangles!

What kind of research do you do before you begin writing a book?

I generally think: What if (insert exciting thought of the day), then start writing, then I realise I don’t know enough and start reading around a subject. For my latest project, Fortune’s Soldier, I’ve become an expert on Armenian railways… Why? Because my boys have to blow one up and I had to get it right. I also know more about Russian politics and Iran and Syria than I did three months ago. I’ve been reading action and adventure stories written by special forces operatives like they are crack to an addict so I can learn all the tec speak of SEAL teams and the SAS.

Do you see writing as a career?

If only to keep the voices in my head quiet, I need to make this my career.

Do you read yourself and if so what is your favorite genre?

I read all the time. I have Kindle Unlimited without which I couldn’t afford my habit. I love gay romance, especially if they are complex and political, Tal Bauer and Cole McCade are two of my favourites. I love action and adventure stories and urban fantasy as well.

Do you prefer to write in silence or with noise? Why?

I have a playlist or favourite album going in my ears most of the time, but my house is always noisy so I’ve learned to write even with the TV on and dogs barking at the local goat herd.

Do you write one book at a time or do you have several going at a time?

I usually have at least two, and number three taking shape as I take the dogs out for long walks.

If you could have been the author of any book ever written, which book would you choose?

Lord of Rings. I’d have done a better job of cutting out all the endless backstory.

Pen or type writer or computer?

Computer. My first computer set me free! I have dyslexia and the endless mistakes I make with a pen and paper used to make me cry, so when I bought my first second hand PC it was like being given a gift from God. The freedom to explore strange new worlds…

Advice they would give new authors?

Practice. Take advice but trust your gut. Don’t get hooked into all the ‘traditional publishing is best’ nonsense. We have Amazon, use it! Then practice some more. Learn about how to tell stories, from using the correct grammar, to how to form a compelling plot. And practice. Never give up. Never stop learning. Never be afraid of ditching a project if you lose the thrill. And yes, more practice.

What is your writing Kryptonite?

Depression, which is a tricky one because sometimes writing causes it, sometimes I get it because I’m not writing enough. Day job. Having to leave the house and think about ‘normal’ stuff.

What’s the most difficult thing about writing characters from the opposite sex?

Tricky one this because I always write from a man’s point of view except for my first two books and the women in them aren’t exactly normal. I can’t write ‘normal’ women, they usually turn out to be strong good guys or bad guys. Domestic situations aren’t my thing so they can use a sword, give and order or, for my latest one, shoot someone, just as easily as a man.

How long on average does it take you to write a book?

My latest took nine weeks, some take a lot longer. Men of Sherwood took a year because I was distracted by trying to write a different book half way through but that one failed to make the grade, so I think about three or four months is normal.

Do you believe in writer’s block?


Yes and no. It doesn’t stop me writing but it can stop me writing well. I’ve ditched dozens of stories I’m half way through because of it.
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