Title: Blind Lust
Author: Annie
Seaton
Publisher: Musa
Publishing
Length: 21,000
words
Genres: Paranormal
Romance
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Blurb:
A wager between the gods can change
your life. Even if you are a witch…
When Venus has a wager with Cupid,
that prudish librarian, Lizzy Sweet cannot be enticed to love, she neglects to
tell her son that Lizzy is a three hundred year old witch. The first man Lizzy
sees after Cupid shoots his arrow is Josh Deegan, a famous country and western
singer who has come to town to rediscover his muse, in an old farmhouse haunted
by a culinary ghost. Local warlock, Wesley Gordon, who has been hitting on
Lizzy to no avail for over one hundred years, is not impressed. The quirky old
folk of Silver Valley watch fondly as the battle between love and lust plays
out. Leaden and golden arrows zing around, spells are magicked, potions
stirred, and ghosts hunted. Who will fall in love and who will let the other go
forever?
Excerpt :
“Do you believe in
ghosts, Josh?” she asked quietly.
He laughed uneasily,
shaking his head. “If you had asked me that a couple of days ago I would have
said you were crazy, but honestly now I don’t know.”
“What about witches?” She
paused. “Magic spells and potions?”
“Give me a break,” he
said, running his fingers through his shaggy hair. She was silent as she
gathered her thoughts.
“You’ve been here for a week, haven’t you
Josh?” she asked softly.
He nodded.
“Have you felt your Aunt
Helen’s presence?”
He looked at her without
answering and a strong gust of wind rattled the kitchen windows. The storm
clouds scurried across the moon, the sky cleared and a shaft of moonlight shone
through the kitchen window. Lizzy stood bathed in moonlight, the lace of the
curtains fracturing the beam, and the power of the moon goddess entered her
strengthening her will.
“Thank you, mother,” she
breathed, her eyes closing as she let the power do its work. She stood
motionless for a full minute.
“Lizzy, are you all
right?” Josh sounded wary.
She stood tall and
straight, holding her hand out to him. “It’s all right Josh, I’m sorry I upset
you.”
He hesitated before
crossing the kitchen and taking her hand. The look of adoration in his eyes
sent sparks running along her nerve endings, all she needed was his touch.
Closing her eyes, Lizzy focused on the power of the mother within, to resist
succumbing to temptation once again.
Review: This was a short read, but very satisfying. It combines one part mythology with one part paranormal and the result is a super cute story that you will wish was just a little bit longer so you could spend more time with Josh, Lizzie and Wesley.
There was a lot of things to love about this story.
1. It is a unique plot: witches and cupid and Venus. Not a likely combination to appear in most stories.
2. A hot sexy country star and a librarian? Yeah this is great!
3. Did I mention the librarian was a witch? And she has a warlock friend that is hot for her?
4. There's a curse!
Anne manages to weave a story with all these things and then bring it to a conclusion that is more than satisfying, as well as a little surprising to the reader.
I read this one my computer, which is something I seldom do with ebooks, and I couldn't stop, even though I was getting a crick in my neck!
Definitely worth reading!
Rating: 5 stars
About the Author:
Annie Seaton lives on the beautiful east
coast of Australia, where she loves sitting in her writing chair, gazing at the
ocean and writing stories. She has always been fascinated by all things
historical and has found her niche writing contemporary romance and steampunk,
where strong heroines and brooding heroes fight together to make their
alternative world a better place.
Her debut novel, Holiday Affair, a contemporary romance set in the South Pacific
was released as part of Entangled Publishing’s Indulgence line in March. The
sequel Italian Affair is currently
underway Watch out for the story of Tom and Brianna the sex therapist who
spices up his life!
Winter of
the Passion Flower was released through Lyrical Press at the same time. Currently immersed in the creation of Book Two, a full length novel, the
adventures of Sofia and her Scottish laird, Annie is already looking forward to
the rest of the series, particularly the adventures of Indigo’s four boys: Jago
and Jory, Ruan and Kit. Strong sassy heroines and rebellious heroes have a
rollicking good time as they work to make the world a better place--albeit their own
steampunk world.
Blind Lust, a paranormal novella
will be released by Musa Publishing on 15th June.
Annie lives with her husband, and ‘Bob’ the dog
and two white cats, in a house next to the beach in a small coastal town of New
South Wales. Their two children are grown and married and she loves spending
time gardening, walking on the beach and spoiling her two grandchildren.
Website: http://annieseatonromance.com
Twitter: @annieseaton26
1 comment:
Leaving a comment since I can't put a url in the rafflecopter since I already left one for today. Kinda hard when you can only do that once a day and there's more than one site to visit each day. Blind Lust really looks interesting and I'd really like to read it.
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