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I like to say that I was Gothic before Gothic was fashionable. I was a teenager in the 1960s and incredibly intrigued both by all things paranormal and by all things romantic. At that time the only romance novels readily available happened to fit my desires perfectly\u2026the Gothic romances.\u00a0 I slurped up every one of them I could get my hands on.<\/p>\n
So when I began writing some years later, it was pretty natural that the novels I wrote had a definitely Gothic flavor, even though Gothic\u00a0romances had gone out of\u00a0fashion. If you called them Romantic Suspense, that worked. Now that vampires and werewolves are all the rage, a variety of Gothic is back in fashion, though it\u2019s more often called either paranormal romance or urban fantasy.<\/p>\n
Not surprisingly, given my interest in Gothic stories, Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. I love the decorations, the change in the weather, the kids in costumes, the goodies, the eerie stories… All of it. And I love writing stories with Gothic Halloween-type themes. There are\u00a0just so many opportunities!<\/p>\n
And speaking of that, I’ve just released a new one!<\/p>\n
Librarian Jess O\u2019Rourke already has\u00a0 her hands full with her father\u2019s declining and health and the under-staffed,\u00a0 under-funded library she runs. A new preacher in town waging war on her books is\u00a0 just an annoyance at first, but an attractive mysterious stranger warns her\u00a0 that there\u2019s more behind the reverend\u2019s campaign than she can guess. The new\u00a0 preacher is a human possessed by a demon and he\u2019s searching for an old grimoire\u00a0 that\u2019s part of an uncatalogued collection of books stored in the library\u2019s\u00a0 basement.<\/p>\n Gabriel Sutton has been the guardian\u00a0 of the book for a long time, a very long time, he claims, since that has been\u00a0 his penance for crimes he committed as a soldier during the Civil War. He\u00a0 convinces Jess that she needs to find the grimoire and use it to return the\u00a0 demon to where he belongs.<\/p>\n Their time gets short when the\u00a0 reverend realizes she\u2019s searching for the book and resorts to desperate\u00a0 measures to either retrieve or destroy it.<\/p>\n You can read the first chapter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Buy Links:\u00a0 Amazon<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nook<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Smashwords<\/a><\/p>\n Contests:<\/p>\n 1. Comment here to be entered in a drawing for a copy of the ebook of your choice from any of the books I have available!<\/p>\n![\"Guardian](\"http:\/\/www.kmccullough.com\/covers\/Guardian_200.jpg\")
Guardian of the Grimoire<\/strong><\/p>\n