Bewitching Blog Tour: Let Us Prey - Jamie Lee Scott Review/Giveaway

Review

Title: Let Us Prey 

Author: Jamie Lee Scott

Format: Ebook provided by tour for review

From Goodreads:

Mimi Capurro, owner of Gotcha Detective Agency, has been hired to protect New York Times bestselling author, Lauren Silke, who was recently assaulted in the bathroom at a paranormal conference. Though Mimi is hired to act as bodyguard for Lauren’s upcoming book tour, plans change when Lauren's assistant is murdered and the slaying is a replica of a scene from Lauren’s newest novel. A novel that hit bookstores the same day as the killing. 
Now instead of playing bodyguard, Mimi is cracking computer code, and chasing down vampires. These vampires come alive on the streets of Santa Cruz, as part of a live-role-playing game. Mimi must find the connection between the vampires and the author to track down the killer. This would be much easier if Detective Nick Christianson wanted her investigating the case. 
Nick, Mimi’s old college fling, is the lead homicide investigator. 
Though he wants her off the case, he also wants to pump her for information. Nick may have used her in the past, but this time she’ll use him to try to catch the murderer first.

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This story is about Mimi, the owner of Gotcha Detective Agency. I think the name of her business perfectly shows you her sense of humor.  Mimi is a funny woman, and I loved her inner monologue.  She has wise comebacks and just her general tone was humorous.  She is also very intelligent - another bonus! 

Soon Mimi is hired to protect author Lauren Silke, who writes vampire novels!  Apparently someone beat the heck out of her, and she is worried about her upcoming book signing tour and more violence.  What starts as a bodyguard job quickly turns into a murder investigation though - and the list of suspects is growing.  

Enter The Camarilla. If you are into vampires, and role-playing then you would definitely be interested in this.  But they too, are suspect in the murder. 

From here the story takes a lot of turns.  You can’t figure out who the murderer really is because everyone seems to have motive or opportunity.  I really enjoyed that it was not plain to see, and frankly, I was a bit surprised when I did find out who it was. 

Mimi isn’t investigating alone, she has to work alongside Nick.  Nick is the lead detective on the case for the police department.  Oh, and he is also her ex-boyfriend!  This absolutely leads to some funny and interesting situations, and certainly enhances that whole snarky attitude she has quietly in her mind. I really liked the two of them interacting, but I tell ya – at times I just wanted to yell at them to get it on and get it over with already!  He's such a....a.....a man!! (haha, men, don't hate me!)  For some reason, Nick acts so aloof – barely even acknowledging Mimi as an investigator – let alone someone he has known intimately!  There were definitely times I just wanted to smack him, that’s for sure.  Nick and Mimi have a lot of sexual tension that is on a slow build.  

All in all, I really enjoyed this story.  It was fast pace and had an easy, almost conversational tone to the writing.  The author did a fantastic job of misdirecting the audience when necessary, and introduced a very interesting cast of characters that weren’t just black and white.  Definitely many shades of grey for this group!  I look forward to seeing more from Jamie Lee Scott, and luckily this book is first in the “Gotcha Detective Agency Mysteries” series.  Oh, and even more exciting - there is talk of bringing this story to the tv screen.  I will definitely set my DVR for that show!

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About Jamie Lee Scott

Jamie was born on the Central Coast of California, where she spent her entire childhood entertaining. She wrote plays and charged admission to her backyard stage so her friends and family could enjoy the performances. She wrote her first novel at the age of 10, for her 5th grade class project. The novel was called Cindy.

Busy with horses and school, Jamie rarely wrote through her teens and twenties, she was living a life most dreamed of (well, she dreamed of anyway), competing at barrel races, hanging out with cowboys, and traveling in rodeo circles with her friends. Money was tight, but life was good. Then Jamie met the man of her dreams. And low and behold he was not a cowboy, but a farm boy. They married and he swept her away to her little piece of heaven in Iowa. 

Well, then Iowa didn't turn out to be such heaven, Jamie again turned to fiction. This time she wrote to relieve the stress of living so far from her family, and from running a business with her husband. Funny how she now found it cathartic to kill people, only on paper of course.

Before she finished her first full length novel, Jamie was contracted to write the book, Hiking Iowa for Falcon publishing. In a year, she hiked 75 trails in the state of Iowa and mapped the trails, landmarks and distances. And this was before GPS. It was tough work for the measly advance, but it was a writing credit. So now, Jamie writes the mystery series featuring the Gotcha Detective Agency.

Jamie has written three novels, Let Us Prey, the soon to be released Death of a Sales Rep, and Give a Dog a Bone. She is currently writing screenplays. She is co-founder of Scriptchat on Twitter www.scriptchat.com & TWWriterChat www.tvwriterchat.com, and is the former president of RWA’s screenwriting chapter, Script Scene.

Jamie still lives in Iowa (though she visits California as often as possible) with her husband, 2 dogs, 2 cats and 2 horses. She writes with a few from her 6 acre farm.

http://www.jamieleescott.com/

https://twitter.com/#!/jamie_ld

http://www.facebook.com/jamielee.scott2

  

Bewitching Blog Tour: Entanglements by PR Mason Guest Post/Giveaway

Check out what author PR Mason has to say about Urban Spelunking and how it was an inspiration for her character, Kizzy.  I have to say, it sounds like fun!  Afterwards, enter for your chance to win a digital copy of Entanglements AND Fated Hearts!

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Spelunking for a Character, by P.R. Mason

Inspiration for plot, characters and settings can spark at the strangest times and from the weirdest sources. For my novel ENTANGLEMENTS, an urban fantasy/paranormal romance, I knew I wanted the heroine, Kizzy, to be engaged in a hobby that reflected the feisty but reckless aspects of her personality. The hobby also had to lead her into a setting that would serve the plot, which by that time I knew would involve Kizzy's accidentally opening a vortex to a dangerous alternate dimension. The hobby also had to fit with my hero, Rom, an athletic alpha male who is soldier-tough and bent on doing his duty. The idea for the specific hobby that would fit my needs ultimately came from an anonymous Facebook posting.

But let me digress for a moment. To explain this properly, I have to go back to my appreciation of a television program called Ninja Warrior or Sasuke. I first found Ninja Warrior when, while catsitting, I flipped through channels until I arrived on one that the cat wanted to watch—signaled by vigorous meows and jumping up to sit in front of the screen. Anyway, Ninja Warrior includes contestants who must successfully pass through an increasingly difficult series of physical challenges to get to the final stage, which is a hand-over-hand rope climb up a metal mountain. My attention was caught by an American contestant not only because of his gorgeous muscles and aquiline nose, but also by the brief comment that his hobby was urban spelunking. I'd never heard of such a thing. A quick search of the Internet revealed spelunking is cave exploration and urban spelunking is exploration of abandoned buildings and tunnels.

Then I found this post on a Facebook page of a group devoted to urban spelunking in NYC: “If you’re interested in going on a spelunk ask yourself these questions: (1) Am I okay with getting arrested? (2) Am I afraid of getting tuberculosis, inhaling intoxicants, etc? (3) Am I okay with getting cut up?  (4) Do I know how incredibly dangerous and stupid this is?”

Since Savannah, Georgia—the setting—has a number of tunnels connected to nefarious activity or tragic circumstances, I knew I'd found the perfect hobby for my heroine. I'd found the hobby that would lead Kizzy into an abandoned building, through a reportedly haunted tunnel, and ultimately, into another world.

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Entanglements

By P.R. Mason

Blurb:

Teen KIZZY TAYLOR is just hoping for an evening of fun when she joins her friends in a spelunking expedition through an under-city tunnel. But fun turns bizarre when Kizzy accidentally opens a vortex and her stepsister is swept through to an evil alternate dimension. The only way to rescue her stepsister is to reopen the vortex and go in after her. But is her new boyfriend, ROM CALIXO, going to help Kizzy or try to stop her? And if she can get past Rom, will she be able to get back home?

Entanglements: She is driven by love. He is bound by duty. Together they are swept through a vortex into a world of adventure and danger.  Read it and find out why the reviewer for the Anipal Times said “I totally fell in love with the hero, Rom, ...Entanglements captivated me."

P.R. Mason writes steamy contemporary and paranormal romance under the name Patricia Mason and young adult paranormal romance and urban fantasy as P.R. Mason. She escaped from the snowy Midwest winters of her youth. She now lives in Savannah Georgia where her home is ruled by two black cats. For more titles by the author, visit www.prmason.net and www.patriciamason.net. You can also follow the author @prmason on Twitter. 

Bewitching Blog Tours: Vala Agendas by JF Jenkins: Guest Post

Please allow me to welcome JF Jenkins as she speaks about something near and dear to every author's heart, I imagine.  Thank you very much for stopping by Fictional Candy, and best of luck with your release!

Vala Agendas

By J.F Jenkins

 Synopsis:

Cheyenne Loveless was just a boring sixteen-year-old girl. Then Denver Collins bit her and everything changed. Her plants start talking to her, she finds out she’s a Nymph, and a witch and the angel of death show up at her doorstep to take her away to the prestigious Vala School and Seminary. Oh, and she has no choice in the matter.

All she wants to do is blend in and return to being invisible, but the more time that passes, the harder that becomes. Plus she’s a daughter of the Divine, an exclusive secret society which rules the world of myth, and discovers she is a key ingredient to an ancient covenant created before she was born. A covenant that will reshape the order of the world.

Adjusting to a new school is difficult enough, but adding on everyone else’s hidden agendas is the icing on the cake. Cheyenne must learn to see through the lies in order to find her place — and possibly even love — in this new world.

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By JF Jenkins

Today I was thinking about writing: what was popular, what sold well, and comparing that to what I wrote most of the time. I thought about the publishing business and the directions it was going in, and I was trying to decide how I wanted to keep moving in my career. There's the option of traditional publishing, self-publishing, and e-publishers. So many options. And I started to do the numbers game. What would sell best, what would get me the most hits and put me at the number one ranking on the big retailers.

I had to stop myself because not only was I getting depressed and jealous, but I started thinking about writing for the wrong reasons. I always told myself I wasn't going to become obsessed with numbers. For the most part, I don't check to see how many books a day I sell. There's a way to do it, but I don't want to know. I'll check to see how the rank is doing, if it went up or down or stayed the same, and if I have any new things up on goodreads. Beyond that, I try not to think about how well I'm doing because I don't want to get to the point where the numbers mean more than my work. Why? Because I don't want to forget why I started writing.

Tell the story, that has always been my goal. If people stick around to listen, awesome. If not, then at least I told it for my own sanity. Someone once upon a time tried to talk me out of this mentality, saying it was wrong of me to not want other people to read my work. I believe it was in “Little Women” where there was a scene about the budding author. Jo had just gotten published in the paper for the first time, and was celebrating her success. She shared it with her love interest and he said: “Vampires and corpses, is this the kind of thing that interests you?” She said, “No, but it's what people want to read about.” And he said something along the lines of, “Forgive me if I'm insulting you, but it makes me sad to hear you not write about the things that you are passionate about.” Again, it's a paraphrase, but the message has always stuck with me.

It's the motivation I try to keep when I'm writing. If I write about vampires and werewolves or whatever else is popular right now, it's not because it is popular. It's because it is what interests me. In my novel “Vala: Agendas” there is a character who is vampiric in nature. He sucks blood, woos women, and loves the night. He's not a stereotypical vampire though. When “Twilight” became popular, I almost scratched him out and changed the whole story because I didn't want people to think that I was trying to take advantage of a market.

I kept Denver Collins in my story because I loved him as a character. And that's what's important. That I love him and write him the way the story needs to be told.

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AUTHOR BIO:

J.F. Jenkins lives in Minneapolis Minnesota with her husband, son, and two cats. She graduated from Bethel University in 2006 with a degree in Media Communication with minors in both writing and film. When she is not busy writing, she spends her free time playing games, reading, and spending time with her family.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jfjenkinsauthor

Twitter: @jfjenkinstweets

Bewitching Blog Tour: Pride's Run - Cat Kalen - Interview/Giveaway

Synopsis:

Seventeen year old Pride is a tracker—a werewolf with a hunger for blood. Taught to trick and to lure, she is the perfect killing machine.
Kept leashed in the cellar by a master who is as ruthless as he is powerful, Pride dreams of freedom, of living a normal life, but escape from the compound is near impossible and disobedience comes with a price.
When she learns her master intends to breed her she knows she has to run.
But Pride soon learns that if she is to survive in the wild, she must trust in the boy who promises her freedom, the same boy she was sent to hunt.
With life and death hanging in the balance the two find themselves on the run from the Paranormal Task Force—officers who shoot first and ask questions later—as well as her master’s handlers.
Can Pride flee the man who has held her captive since birth and find sanctuary in the arms of a boy who has captured her heart? Or will her master find her first?

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INTERVIEW

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First of all, I want to thank author Cat Kalen, for taking the time to interview with me. Cat, I’m sure your schedule is very hectic, and I’m very excited to interview you today! Welcome to Fictional Candy, my little home on the internet! I hope you enjoy your time here, and hopefully you will visit us again!
Thanks you so much for having me. I’m excited to be here!

First, Cat, I loved Pride’s Run. I thought it was a really good story showcasing a shifter point of view that we don’t see often (that of a teenage girl). Was Pride inspired by anyone in particular?
I’m so thrilled that you loved Pride’s Run! Pride wasn’t inspired by anyone in particular, but when the idea came to write a dark werewolf story with tortured characters kept in captivity, I knew Pride had to be a very special girl if she wanted to thrive and survive in the scary environment I placed her in.
Pride is a young girl that was born into captivity, and she longs for a life outside the wall. Personally, I feel Pride is a character that is a really great positive role model for younger fans. How do you think younger girls will feel about her?
I’m so glad you feel that way. I adore Pride in so many ways and was hoping to make her an inspiration for young girls (and for adult readers who love YA!). I wanted Pride to be a character everyone could relate to, admire, look up to and gain courage and strength from. Pride comes up against numerous obstacles and while she doesn’t always make the right choices, she always faces each challenge with strength and courage because her inner drive to help and protect those she cares about keeps her going.

”Pride Unleashed” is going to be released in February, is that going to be the last we see of Pride?
No, I just finished Pride Unleashed and in the end of the book she has a few big decisions to make, and then there is a plot twist that just begs for a third story! I have a few other commitments but I’m hoping to write Pride’s Pursuit very soon! Great, I will definitely keep an eye out for that one!

And in my research, I learned that you have two teenage children. How do they feel about Pride?
First, I think they are sick of hearing me talk about her like she is one of my own kids. J Seriously though my 17 year old daughter loved it and when I needed to work out a plot issue she was always there to brainstorm with me. She’s really looking forward to Pride Unleashed and she will be one of the first readers, because she always spots my mistakes! My 18 year old son hasn’t read it. He is a first year university student and is so busy. He has a copy and he keeps telling me he’ll read it as soon as he can, but after listening for me talk about Pride for the last year, there will be no surprises for him.

And in this story we learned bits and pieces about Pride’s family. Are there any plans for a book about her mother?
Hmmmm, let me just say this. Her family will become very important in the second story. Lots of surprises in store for you all!

Ok, now for the juicy stuff...Team Logan or Team Stone? (and, Why, of course!)
In Pride’s Unleashed, the tension between the three really heat up because in order to survive the two feuding alphas have to work together. I think readers will be surprised by her choice in the end of Pride Unleashed, which is why we need the third story!
Ok, maybe now its time for some easy questions! Hope you are ready!

Do you have any rituals or things you like to do, eat, listen to, while writing?
I absolutely cannot have any music playing when I write. I need quiet! No rituals, really. I get up write for a few hours, work out, eat, then back at the desk until the kids come home looking for food!
If you could have your favorite meal with any other author, alive or dead, what would the meal and the author be?
 Oh my goodness. I thought you said these were the easy questions. LOL. I LOVE sooo many authors and would love to sit down with quite a few but I think if I had the chance to have a meal with any author it would be Lori Foster. She is one the most generous authors I’ve ever known and I got my start through her when she held a contest for aspiring writers. As for what we would eat? Hmmm….I’m going to say, chicken Caesar salad! Great choices! I think I would have a terrible time trying to narrow that down also.

Pride’s Run is about werewolves, which so many of us adore. If possible, would you become a werewolf?
Nope! I’d hate to hunt wild animals on shift night! And shifting is just too painful. I’m a wimp.
And what is your favorite snack or treat?
Now this one is easy. Chocolate Brownies. Yumm 

You can never go wrong with brownies :)

If you won the lottery, what would be the first “fun” thing you would do?
I’d go on a cruise to Hawaii. It’s something I’ve never done and long to do!
And lastly, do you have a favorite music group/band/singer?
I really don’t. I’m not much into music and listen to what my kids call ‘bubble gum’ music on the radio. You know, the oldies.
That is about it for today. Thank you again, Cat, for taking the time for me. I wish you the best of luck with both Pride books, and with the rest of your book tour here with Bewitching Blog Tours. I can’t wait to read Pride Unleashed in February!
Thanks so much for having me. Have a great day!

Thanks, and you too!

Author Bio:

Cat Kalen is a multi published author in the romance genre under two pen names, Cat is a wife, mom, sister, daughter, and friend. She loves dogs, sunny weather, anything chocolate (she never says no to a brownie) pizza and watermelon. She has two teenagers who keep her busy with their never ending activities, and a husband who is convinced he can turn her into a mixed martial arts fan. Cat can never find balance in her life, is always trying to find time to go to the gym, can never keep up with emails, Facebook or Twitter and tries to write page-turning books that her readers will love.
A maritime native and former financial officer, Cat has lived all over Canada but has finally settled down in her childhood hometown with her family.

Links

www.catkalen.com

www.yabeyond.com

Twitter: @catkalen

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Pride's Run - Cat Kalen

Title: Pride's Run
Author: Cat Kalen

Format: Ebook provided by author for Book Tour Review

From Goodreads:
Seventeen year old Pride is a tracker—a werewolf with a hunger for blood. Taught to trick and to lure, she is the perfect killing machine. 

Kept leashed in the cellar by a master who is as ruthless as he is powerful, Pride dreams of freedom, of living a normal life, but escape from the compound is near impossible and disobedience comes with a price.

When she learns her master intends to breed her she knows she has to run.

Pride soon learns if she is to survive in the wild, she must trust in the boy who promises her freedom, the same boy she was sent to hunt.

With life and death hanging in the balance the two find themselves on the run from the Paranormal Task Force—officers who shoot first and ask questions later—as well as her master’s handlers.
Can Pride flee the man who has held her captive since birth and find sanctuary in the arms of a boy who has captured her heart? Or will her master find her first? 

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I really enjoyed this story.  It was refreshing to get a wolf shifter story from a completely different point of view - a teenage girl.  

Pride is a young girl, an orphan, who lives in captivity.  She is forced to track and hunt for her master, while given only the basic necessities in life.  Failure to follow the rules is a painful price.  But there isn't a moment that she isn't planning, watching, and waiting for her chance to escape. 

And there are a couple things that stand in her way.  One, she has a tracking gps chip, two, there is a government group called the Paranormal Task Force that hunts her kind and will not hesitate to kill her if they find her.  So when she sees the opportunity to escape, she does.  But suddenly she has a "partner in crime"  - Logan, the subject of her latest assignment from her master. 

I really thought the two of them made a great pair as they  made their escape.  He was an alpha, seemingly knowledgeable about what was happening and the best course of action.  She was a young girl, wise beyond her years, full of fire and a strong sense of whats wrong and right.  

There was a lot of action in this story, and the scenery was perfect.  I really loved the scenes where they were in wolf form.  As I've said in the past, I love shifter books because its like getting two stories in one.  And the way the author wrote from the wolf's point of view in Pride's Run really made me feel like I was seeing things as a wolf.

And we can't forget Stone, the alpha wolf at the compound whom Pride is sure hates her.  Stone seems like a Grade A Jerk for the most part.  And I really loved the little twist that his character brings to the story.  

All in all I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who loves wolf shifter stories.  It has a lot of action, some romance, and a lot of promise for a great series!  The sequel, Pride Unleashed, comes out in February 2012.  

Author Bio: 

Cat Kalen is a multi published author in the romance genre under two pen names, Cat is a wife, mom, sister, daughter, and friend. She loves dogs, sunny weather, anything chocolate (she never says no to a brownie) pizza and watermelon. She has two teenagers who keep her busy with their never ending activities, and a husband who is convinced he can turn her into a mixed martial arts fan. Cat can never find balance in her life, is always trying to find time to go to the gym, can never keep up with emails, Facebook or Twitter and tries to write page-turning books that her readers will love. 
A maritime native and former financial officer, Cat has lived all over Canada but has finally settled down in her childhood hometown with her family. 

Links

www.catkalen.com

www.yabeyond.com

Twitter: @catkalen

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Bewitching Blog Tours: Demons of Infernum - Rosalie Lario

Title: Blood of the Demon

Demons of Infernum, #1

Author: Rosalie Lario

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Length: 254 pages

Release Date: August 2011

ePub ISBN: 978-1-937044-14-5

Print ISBN: 978-1-937044-15-2

http://www.entangledpublishing.com/blood-of-the-demon/

DEMONS OF INFERNUM - Book One by Rosalie Lario

Keegan lives to exact revenge on the evil demon who sired and abused him. When his father devises a plan to bring on the apocalypse, he and his three half-brothers, interdimensional bounty hunters for the Elden Council, are charged with capturing and delivering their father for punishment.

Art gallery owner Brynn Meyers has no idea that her ability to read memories embedded in objects and drain people of their life force means she has demon ancestry. Unfortunately for Brynn, she’s also the key to raising an ancient zombie army, which puts her on every demon’s Most Wanted List.

And no one wants her more than Keegan’s father.

Keegan must protect Brynn from his father by any means necessary, but he’ll have to learn to harness the other half of his genetics—the far deadlier, uncontrollable half—when he starts to fall for the one woman standing between him and the vengeance he so desperately seeks. The one woman he’ll never be able to resist.

“This thrilling new series mixes danger with demons and romance with rocket-paced action! I can’t wait for the next one.” ~ Alyssa Day, New York Times bestselling author

“BLOOD OF THE DEMON grabs hold of you from page one and doesn’t let go. It’s a wild and hot paranormal ride readers will love.” ~ National bestselling author Cynthia Eden

“The hot and wild fusion of demon, dragon, and desire had me burning through the pages!” ~ Jessa Slade, author of Vowed in Shadows

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Excerpt for Blood of the Demon (Book 1):

Wait a second... his face.

“Your nose, it’s healing.” She stumbled toward him, surveying him, then his brothers. Taeg’s and Dagan’s wounds weren’t disappearing, but Ronin... “You, too, your wounds are healing. How is—how is that possible?”

“Brynn, go back into the room,” Keegan ordered.

Keegan and Ronin could heal themselves? Amazing. No wonder they were so badass.

The large gash down the center of Keegan’s nose closed itself. Other than a few stray droplets of blood, his nose seemed untouched. She took another step toward him, but her foot collided with a hard object. She’d run into one of the downed men. She lifted her gaze back to Keegan.

Wait!

Doing a double take, she stumbled backward to get a closer look at the figure of the man at her feet. No, he wasn’t a man. Not a man!

His characteristics were definitely male and his body mostly human, save the gray pallor of his skin. But his face—it was all wrong. Five eyes instead of two. Rhinoceros-like horn instead of a nose. Ridged spikes covered his forehead. His nauseating stench burned her nostrils, like a horrid mixture of wet dog and burning asphalt.

Warm hands gripped her arms, and someone shook her. “Brynn.

Brynn.”

She looked into Keegan’s face. His lips moved, but she couldn’t hear him over the loud, shrill sound of an alarm.

He shook her harder. “Brynn, stop screaming!”

She realized with a start that he was right. Shutting her mouth abruptly, she moved her gaze back to the thing on the floor. She couldn’t help it.

“Look at me,” Keegan said, his voice harsh.

She focused on his eyes, his lips, his nose—his fully healed nose. When she found her voice again, she sputtered, “What the fuck is that thing?”

Another figure on the floor moaned and stirred. Taeg strode over and kicked him, and he stopped moving. But even from here, it was obvious he wasn’t human.

“What are they?” she whispered.

Keegan closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he reopened them, they blazed with the intensity of some unspoken emotion. Almost like he felt sorry for her. But when he spoke, all he said was, “Demons.”

“Demons?” She laughed. Then laughed some more. In some distant part of her brain, she recognized she bordered on hysteria. “Demons?”

Keegan just stared at her.

“Are you kidding me? Demons?”

“You freely accept people with special abilities,” Ronin said as he moved next to Keegan and pinned her with his gaze. “Is it too much of a stretch to believe that demons might also exist?”

“Yeah, but... ” What were they going to tell her next, that aliens were real, too? “But I have special abilities.”

Dagan coughed. “You also have dem—”

“Dagan,” Keegan snarled, followed by a string of foreign words. Dagan yelled back before whirling around and stomping out the front door.

She concentrated on reading Keegan’s expression. “You actually expect me to believe those were demons?”

He nodded. “Yes.”

She took several deep, calming breaths. “How? How do you know all this? How can you tell me with such certainty that these are demons?”

He exchanged a serious, telling glance with Ronin before answering her. “Because, Brynn... I am one.”

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Deadly Obsession - Kristine Cayne - Guest Post

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When an Oscar-winning movie star meets a department-store photographer…

Movie star Nic Lamoureux appears to have a playboy’s perfect life. But it’s a part he plays, an act designed to conceal a dark secret he carries on his shoulders. His empty days and nights are a meaningless blur until he meets the woman who fulfills all his dreams. She and her son are the family he’s always wanted—if she can forgive a horrible mistake from his past.

A Hollywood dream…

Lauren James, a widowed single mother, earns barely enough money to support herself and her son. When she wins a photography contest and meets Nic, the man who stars in all her fantasies, her dreams, both professional and personal, are on the verge of becoming real. The attraction between Lauren and Nic is instant—and mutual. Their chemistry burns out of control during a photo shoot that could put Lauren on the fast track to a lucrative career.

Becomes a Hollywood nightmare

But an ill-advised kiss makes front-page news, and the lurid headlines threaten everything Nic and Lauren have hoped for. Before they know what’s happening, their relationship is further rocked by an obsessed and cunning stalker who’ll stop at nothing—not even murder—to have Nic to herself. When Nic falls for Lauren, the stalker zeroes in on her as the competition.

And the competition must be eliminated.

Today I have the great pleasure of welcoming author Kristine Cayne to the site for a guest post!  Thank you, Kristine, for taking the time to post here.  I wish you the best of luck on your new release.  And readers, read through, at the end of the post is a giveaway for an Ecopy of Deadly Obsession on this site, and a link to win a signed print copy (one tour wide winner)

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I’m excited to be visiting Fictional Candy to celebrate the launch of my new book Deadly Obsession, as well as my Virtual Book Tour presented by Bewitching Book Tours. Today, I’m talking about music and how it helped me write Deadly Obsession. I’ll also talk about how I incorporated music into the storyline.

Nic Lamoureux, the hero of Deadly Obsession, is an Oscar-winning movie star. Like most people, he has a cell phone and enjoys assigning specific ringtones for the people in his life. At one point, the heroine, Lauren James, speculates as to what ringtone Nic might have assign her. Although she doesn’t find out in this book, she does come up with her own choices.

Nic’s Ringtones

I have to admit that I had a lot of fun searching for the “right” ringtone to assign to the various characters in the book. Let’s see if you can guess the role of the character based on the ringtone Nic chose for them. Some are a lot more obvious than others J

·         Lauren – She hopes he picked  Savage Garden’s Truly Madly Deeply but thinks he’s picked Depeche Mode’s Photographic

·         Rachel –  Dave Matthews Band – Sister

·         Ranch –  Daughtry – Home

·         Summer – Hall and Oates – Maneater

·         Vivian –  Mick Jagger – She’s the Boss

These aren’t mentioned in the book, but here are the rest of the ringtones from Nic’s cell phone.

 Jason – SpongeBob SquarePants - Goofy Goober

 Lauren – Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody

 Kaden – Nickleback – Savin’ Me

Rémi –  Habs Fans - Nanana Heyheyhey Goodbye Hopefully, Nic has a better recording, LOL.

Roles: Agent, best friend, bodyguard, girlfriend, girlfriend’s son, home, sister, starlet. Can you match up the roles to the ringtones?

Nic’s Un-official Theme Song

In order to meet Hollywood’s expectations, Nic and his agent create Nic The Lover. He’s a smooth-talking flirt who makes women… well, I’ll talk about Nic’s superpower some other day J After reading a scene in which Nic and Lauren are having dinner at a restaurant, one of the writing group members told me she had “the perfect song for Nic.” The song was about candlelight dinners and wining and dining. I was skeptical, but after listening to her suggestion, I realized she was right.  Shaggy’s Luv me, luv me is the perfect fit for Nic The Lover. The song makes me smile and I can’t help but to get up and dance!

Stalker Scenes

In order to get into the right mood to write the stalker scenes, I created an “obsessive love” playlist. Researching this was eye opening to say the least. I’d never before realized how many songs out there dealt with this theme, including some top hits. Here are a few examples.

 Garbage – #1 Crush

 Good Charlotte – My Bloody Valentine

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – From Her to Eternity 

The Police – Every Breath You Take

National Stalking Awareness Month

In Deadly Obsession, Nic Lamoureux is pursued by a stalker who is unphased by anything, even murder. But contrary to popular belief, you don’t need to be a celebrity to have a stalker. In fact, 3.4 million Americans are victims of this crime each year. The odds are that someone you know has been stalked.

To raise awareness, January 2012 has been named National Stalking Awareness Month. Throughout the month, I’m blogging about stalking—types of stalkers and their behaviors, famous cases, and stalking in popular culture. Please visit my blog (http://blog.kristinecayne.com) to learn more about this crime and how we can all help its victims.

Where Can I find Deadly Obsession?

Deadly Obsession is available in print and/or e-book format at the following retailers :

·     Amazon

·    Barnes & Noble

·       Smashwords

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GIVEAWAY

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Please comment below, and enter the rafflecopter for your chance to win an ecopy of Deadly Obsession by Kristine Cayne.  

Giveaway runs from January 10, 2012 til January 16, 2012 midnight EST. Winner will have 48 hours to respond to winning notification or a new winner will be chosen.  Prize of one ebook will be emailed after tour ends, February 6, 2012.

ALSO!

Kristine Cayne will be giving away one signed print copy of her book tour wide (Open to US only)!  

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