Illium and Elena in Conversation

Guild Hunter #17.1

by Nalini Singh

This is a deleted scene, which is one of the author's short stories that you can locate through the newsletter or through the website.

5 pages, ebook

Published August 14, 2025

About the author

I've been writing as long as I can remember and all of my stories always held a thread of romance (even when I was writing about a prince who could shoot lasers out of his eyes). I love creating unique characters, love giving them happy endings and I even love the voices in my head. There's no other job I would rather be doing. In September 2002, when I got the call that Silhouette Desire wanted to buy my first book, Desert Warrior, it was a dream come true. I hope to continue living the dream until I keel over of old age on my keyboard.


I was born in Fiji and raised in New Zealand. I also spent three years living and working in Japan, during which time I took the chance to travel around Asia. I’m back in New Zealand now, but I’m always plotting new trips. If you’d like to see some of my travel snapshots, have a look at the Travel Diary page (updated every month).

So far, I've worked as a lawyer, a librarian, a candy factory general hand, a bank temp and an English teacher and not necessarily in that order. Some might call that inconsistency but I call it grist for the writer's mill.

Reviews

[Lissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

elena admires the amber ring Aodhan made for Illium. Then Illium teases Elena about how quickly she traded amber.

[Lover of Romance · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a really cute read....it just left a smile on my face and man it would have been amazing to have this in the book too.