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Elements of the supernatural seem natural in fall
WELCOME TO Lyndi’s Adventurous Friend AUGUSTINA van HOVEN!
I love the fall. It’s my favorite time of year. I love the changing of the leaves and the varying colors of orange, yellow, copper, and brown. It’s also the time of the harvest. I’m an avid gardener and this is when I get the payoff for all the planting, weeding, and watering. All these things are important to me, but the thing about Fall that I look forward to the most is Halloween.
To this day, I still dress up in costume to answer the door and pass out candy to the trick-or-treaters. This year I will be dressed up as the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland. This goes a long way to explain why I write paranormal romance. For me a good romance involves a vampire, a shifter, time travel, aliens, or magic. Anyone of those elements hooks me every time. I love the adventure and the danger that the paranormal elements bring to a story.
As my tribute to Halloween, I created the Eldritch Series. This is not a romance, but supernatural suspense. The first book in the series is HARBINGER. The series takes place in 1880 in the town of Dante’s Hollow, Maine. Nicholas Harwood, is an apothecary who has grown up with the knowledge of the supernatural. It is the legacy of his family. He is able to see and speak to the dead. Nicholas and his unlikely group of companions—a druid sorcerer, a witch, a medical doctor and a ghost or two—protect the town from the supernatural threats around them.
Book 2 of the series, CURSED, releases on October 4th. This time Nicholas and company, face a new threat. A werewolf has come to town and they must stop it before the body count grows.
Cursed
Not everything is beautiful under the light of a silvery full moon.
A new evil walks the night in the woods near Dante’s Hallow. Nicholas Harwood and his companions-a druid sorcerer, a witch, his best friend and a few ghosts, race against time to stop this new creature before the body count grows higher. Can they save the town without alerting the local people to the truth about the supernatural?
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cursed-Augustina-Van-Hoven-ebook/dp/B0BD9FTY3Z/
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cursed-augustina-van-hoven/1142200851?ean=2940166695857
Apple: https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6443377961
KOBO: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/cursed-220
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Excerpt
He was approaching a tight curve in the road where the forest grew thicker on both sides. Brutus stopped and stamped his feet, trying to turn around and head back to English Point. Nick had a hard time controlling the animal. “Easy boy, what is it what you sense?”
Nick stayed in the saddle. If he dismounted, Brutus might bolt. Something was frightening the horse, something the creature could sense but Nick couldn’t. Brutus acted like this when Nick tried to get him closer to the cemetery than the maple tree. Something was nearby, and standing here in the middle of the road with thick trees and brush on either side was a good way to get ambushed.
He adjusted his grip on the reins and tapped his flanks to signal the animal to run. Brutus obeyed. They raced along, coming quickly to the tight curve. They rounded it, and the horse reared, dumping Nicolas onto the gravel.
Brutus disappeared into the foliage, leaving Nick on the ground. When Nick finally caught his breath and sat up, there, several feet in front of him was a handcart filled with fish and ice and a man stretched out on the ground.
But that wasn’t what nearly stopped Nick’s heart, or what had terrified the horse.
It was the thing that was leaning over the man pulling his heart from his chest—a gigantic black wolf.
Augustina Van Hoven is a paranormal romance author who lifts the veil on the secrets hidden in the world around us. Whether it’s traveling through a crack in time, interacting with the dead, or meeting the supernatural creatures living among us, her characters find love in unexpected places. What would you do if you actually met a shifter? Or woke up a hundred and fifty years in the past? Or looked into a mirror and found the face staring back at you wasn’t your own? Come and read stories that show you what is possible if you will only believe.
Augustina was born in The Netherlands and currently resides in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and three cats. She is an avid reader of romance, science fiction and fantasy. When she’s not writing she likes to work in her garden or in the winter months, crochet and knit on her knitting machines.
Website: https://augustinavanhoven.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/augustinavhoven
Giveaway and book tour!
Secrets of the Ravine
The MacKenzie Chronicles Book 1
by Brenda Whiteside
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Lies can haunt, but the truth will kill.
Magpie MacKenzie doesn’t believe in coincidence. But when a ringer for her long-dead love walks into her life the same day skeletal remains are unearthed, she’s convinced the universe is sending her a message. Fearing her father will be accused of the crime, Magpie will do whatever it takes to find the truth. Even risk her heart on this familiar stranger who may hold critical clues to the unsolved mystery.
While visiting purportedly haunted Joshua, Arizona, lawyer Zack Peartree is instantly drawn to the free-wheeling shopkeeper. His attraction propels him on a collision course between past and present where digging up secrets could prove fatal.
Using decades-old clues and Zack’s déjà vu moments, the couple embark on a treacherous race to prove her father’s innocence before Magpie becomes the next victim. Can they save her from a murderous fate, or will love be the final casualty?
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Mystery on Spirit Mountain
The MacKenzie Chronicles Book 2
The past never sleeps, and the truth never dies.
Only Harlan MacKenzie can sense the troubled history of the Big Purple House. When he’s hired to restore the historic mansion, he doesn’t foresee the insidious secrets—secrets that entangle his family in deceit and murder.
Phaedra is selling the house that has been in her family for decades. As her friends-to-lovers relationship with Harlan escalates, she’s forced to choose between her way of life or his, even though she risks losing him forever.
After a stranger comes to town, weaving her web of deception, hell-bent on correcting an old grievance connected to the house, dark revelations of the past implode the present. Harlan and Phaedra are plunged into a dangerous mystery, risking their love, their future, and their lives.
Curse Of Wolf Falls
The MacKenzie Chronicles Book 3
Secrets can protect what the truth will destroy.
Elidor MacKenzie has a gift she can’t return—the ability to absorb the joy, pain, and suffering of others. She’s spent her life running from what she considers her curse. Now, her best friend is dead, and she alone holds the key to an archaeological discovery that could destroy a culture. With newfound inner peace, Elidor has returned home to make amends and guard the secret revelation. But greed-driven scavengers have followed her. Once again, the energies of Joshua will stir the hurricane, with her at the deadly center.
Jules never got over Elidor. Twenty years and a famous journalism career later, he’s back in Joshua—and so is his first love. If his heart can stand the torture, he’ll risk reviving their relationship. But saving Elidor from herself and the secret she won’t give up may be the death of them both.
With Jules by her side, Elidor is determined to outrun the scavengers, guard the secret, and renew their love. But fate is coming after her, and there’s nowhere the couple can hide.
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Brenda Whiteside is the award-winning author of mystery romance and suspense. She’s penned a couple of historicals and straight romance, but she’s found villains and danger make a good story that much better. After living in six states and two countries—so far—she and her husband have settled in Central Arizona. They admit to being gypsies at heart so won’t discount the possibility of another move. They share their home with a rescue dog named Amigo. While FDW fishes, Brenda writes.
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