WICKED WEDNESDAY
I love character driven fiction. In my own books, the characters come to me long before their stories. This cast of characters from Hunter is enough to make your skin crawl. I think that's her point. Tell us about them, Hunter.
Mephos the Innocent is a handsome,
dark-haired, copper-eyed young man still lanky and raw-boned from his last
growth spurt centuries ago. It’s easy to mistake him for a nineteen-year-old
party guy burning through his inheritance on the beaches of the Mediterranean.
In fact, he is the owner and operator of a collection of very exclusive spas in
Andorra. Europe’s rich and beautiful flock to the secluded mountain spas for
the medicinal waters of the springs, but there’s more in the waters than just
curative properties. A nearby hell gate is tainting the springs with dark magic
and the vampires are cashing in.
Celene, at first glance, is
Mephos’s arm candy. With long midnight red hair and tantalizing curves, she
wields her ability to enthrall like a billy club. Only dangerous when she’s let
off her leash, look for a startling revelation about Celene towards the end of
the book, and prepare yourself for her voracious sexual appetite.
Bertrand brings the class to this
horrid little ensemble in his over-sized, manly way, but his hammered features
and numerous scars suggest a not so polite past. As a former crusader and
Knight Templar, Bertrand is haunted by his deeds, and abandoned by a church
that drove him to the brink of madness. Even if time hasn’t healed all his
wounds, they are cauterized, field-dressed, and mostly forgotten. Bertand’s
long golden hair, faded blue eyes, and gladiator muscles turn heads most
anywhere he goes.
Rasmus of Gomorrah was a priest not even God could kill. Caught at the edge of town by a biblical curse whist fleeing the famed city of Gomorrah, Rasmus’s inhuman regenerative abilities keep him from eternal rest as, every second, the will of God still tries to tear him apart. The resulting agony has left him insane. Couple that with his talent for scheming and manipulating and you have a desperately dangerous entity with planet-ending plans for God and man alike.
If that’s still not enough wicked, add in rotting ghouls, cursed-dripping mummified thieves, and a sect of pain-loving heretics and you’ve got a proper love story. A Shiver of Shadows packs plenty of wickedness, but the touching romance between Melisande and three-hundred year-old corporeal ghost, Colonel William Grayford is the beating heart of this romantic tale of rescued love and new beginnings.
Blurb:
You'd think stopping Armageddon would buy a
girl a bit of R&R with her freshly resurrected boyfriend. But things go
south again when celebrity soul wrangler, Melisande Blythe, is abducted and
dragged to Europe.
There's more to the darkness hiding in the reclusive, mountaintop country of Andorra than just garden variety evil. There's something dangerously wrong with her beautiful immortal hosts too.
Gifted with flesh again by the Grace of God, three-hundred-year-old former
ghost, Colonel William Grayford, will move heaven and earth to find his
beloved. But Europe's most wicked monsters stand in his way. Something more
painful than death awaits Mel, if Grayford can't find her in time.
The world's been living on fifteen thousand
years of borrowed time and it's just run out.
Buy Links:
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Shiver-Shadows-Hell-Gate-Book-ebook/dp/B09191NNXT/
Barnes & Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-shiver-of-shadows-hunter-j-skye/1139146113?ean=9781509235988
Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/a-shiver-of-shadows
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Hunter J. Skye was born with a rare nightmare
disorder, and was raised in a haunted Victorian home. Those two factors
predestined her to write ghost stories. With a Bachelor of the Fine Arts,
Hunter first went into museology, but her love of the written word drew her
back to the keyboard. She now writes full time and paints part-time.
Hunter's debut novel, A Glimmer of Ghosts, won four RWA awards pre-publication.
It is the first book in an urban fantasy/paranormal romance series set in
coastal Virginia. Book two, A Shiver of Shadows, just released on May 24th 2021
from The Wild Rose Press. Book
three, A Rapture of Wraiths, is expected to release in 2022.
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Website https://hunterskye.com/
Feeling oh so wicked today! Anybody else have a delicious villain I should know about? XOXO
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