{"id":5411,"date":"2016-06-04T07:01:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T14:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/?p=5411"},"modified":"2017-09-09T09:37:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T16:37:29","slug":"camels-and-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emlynley.com\/blog\/camels-and-bulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Camels, Horses and One Amazing Bull #mmromance @dreamspinners"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of years ago, Brandilyn Carpenter asked me for my favorite places in the world. I can\u2019t find the list right now (that would have been a miracle!) but I do know that you\u2019d find Jaisalmer, India in one of the top spots.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been lucky enough to travel extensively around the world and even luckier to have been able to set stories in many of my favorite places so I can share the joys (and the occasional horror) of my own experiences.<\/p>\n

So I knew that eventually I\u2019d set a story in one of the most amazing places I\u2019ve even been: Jaisalmer. It\u2019s really like a golden city floating above the desert near the border of India and Pakistan. It\u2019s an old\u00a0 fortress, with thick walls not unlike those you\u2019d find surrounding a medieval European castle. Narrow walkways wind up to the top of the city past the old palaces that the Rajasthani royalty once occupied.<\/p>\n

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And like many cities in India there are plenty of cattle wandering around. I had\u00a0 my own intimate encounter with one up near the top of the Jaisalmer fort when I got caught in a narrow alley with a horned devil who didn\u2019t want to share the road. I don\u2019t have a scar, but lets just say that those horns are kinda sharp. It was one of those experiences that brought home that I was in INDIA!!<\/p>\n

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I ended up spending about four months traveling around India and though I saw many amazing and incredible places, Jaisalmer remains among my favorite experiences. I hope you\u2019ll feel that you\u2019ve made the journey when you read Holy Cow!<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>American med student Duncan Stirling is traveling around India with his two best friends, who have just married. Their last stop is the magical city of Jaisalmer, a fort in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan. He feels like a third wheel on their honeymoon, though the three friends had the trip planned for years, to celebrate finishing medical school and have a last adventure before they start their residencies back in the States.<\/p>\n

Akash Nandi is an Indian man from a wealthy and well-known family. At least that\u2019s how he appears. He hides the truth that his family is descended from Nandi, Lord Shiva\u2019s bull, and they\u2019ve guarded sacred places for millennia. Being gay and immortal is tough, especially when his family\u2019s expectations make finding the right mate impossible. As his grandmother, the family matriarch, nears death, a struggle for power puts Akash and his new crush, the charming American Duncan, in harm\u2019s way.<\/p>\n

A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2016 Daily Dose package “A Walk on the Wild Side.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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