Welcome to Wednesday Women and Yvonne Heidt's Sisters of Spirits universe! In order to enter the giveaway, for the chance to win an ebook of Book 1, you know what to do: Leave a comment here on the blog, together with your contact info (email is best, in case you are the lucky one) Ends next Tuesday, noon EST as usual.
Thank you, Yvonne, for bringing the Sisters of Spirits to the table!
Next week, writing due Wodke Hawkinson will tell all about their leading lady in peril, but for now, let Yvonne introduce you to the world of the Sisters of Spirits
Paranormal Society:
First of all, I’d like to thank Barbara Winkes
for the opportunity to guest blog here on Wednesday’s Women.
I’d like to take this time to introduce the
women in my Sisters of Spirits Trilogy - a kick ass group of psychically gifted
women who met when they were eleven years old. As adults, they created a
business featuring each of their strengths – along with the Sisters of Spirits
Paranormal Society, dedicated to help others understand what they can’t see,
and find the truth behind their hauntings.
The Awakening: Book One, is Sunny’s story.
Sunny Skye, a psychic medium, is the head investigator and
founder of Sisters of Spirits. She is excellent at finding ghosts but finds it
difficult to cope in the real world. When she meets Jordan, she
is instantly attracted and completely unnerved by the personal demons she
carries around with her.
Street tough Jordan Lawson molded herself into what she thinks an excellent cop should be. She trusts only two things: facts and herself. She believes only in the evil that mankind commits and she certainly doesn't believe in ghosts, even when confronted by one.
When spiritualism and jaded skepticism collide, who backs down first?
Street tough Jordan Lawson molded herself into what she thinks an excellent cop should be. She trusts only two things: facts and herself. She believes only in the evil that mankind commits and she certainly doesn't believe in ghosts, even when confronted by one.
When spiritualism and jaded skepticism collide, who backs down first?
My latest release, The Quickening: Book Two in
the SOS series, Tiffany’s story, was just released January 15th, 2014.
But really, Sunny, Tiffany, and Shade’s story
begins fifteen years ago in The Awakening…
Sunny Skye waited on the wide front porch,
dancing nervously from foot to foot and impatiently brushing wild curls out of
her eyes. She checked the watch she’d received for her eleventh birthday the
week before, and tapped the crystal. “They’re late!”
She had been looking forward to this weekend
for months. Her father had put together a film crew and invited two additional
girls they had picked out of twenty case files to take part in a documentary he
was shooting about psychic children. Special kids with extraordinary abilities.
Her mother, also gifted, was going to be in it as well. Sunny was beside
herself with excitement. She wanted to spend time with other kids who wouldn’t
think she was crazy whenever she started talking to someone they couldn’t see.
A dark sedan pulled into the driveway. “Never
mind,” she called over her shoulder before running down the stairs.
The rear passenger door opened, and Sunny saw
a small girl with red hair pulled into a long ponytail. She was huddled against
the backseat and looked as if she might cry. A woman, whom Sunny assumed was
the girl’s mother, got out of the car, walked past her, and up to the house,
not bothering to take the girl with her.
“Don’t be scared,” Sunny said and held out a
hand to help her out. “I’m Sunny, and I’m so happy that you could make it.”
“My name is Tiffany Curran. I don’t like to
touch people.”
“Oh,” Sunny said. “That’s right. I forgot.”
She stepped back from the car to let Tiffany out. “My dad says that you have
psychometric abilities. That means you can read people’s minds by touching
them, right?”
“Sometimes. And when I touch things, I
sometimes see what happened there. Like walls and stuff.”
“Place memory? That’s cool!”
“What do you do?”
Sunny smiled. “I’m an empath and I can hear
and talk with ghosts.”
Tiffany’s light blue eyes widened. “Do you see
them?”
“Not with my eyes. I see them here, in my
mind.” Tiffany was staring at her with her mouth open. “What?” Sunny asked.
“Your eyes are two different colors.”
“Mom says they were both blue when I was born,
and six months later, one of them turned green. Some people think they’re
creepy.”
“I think they’re beautiful.” Tiffany smiled
shyly, flashing two small dimples.
Before Sunny could politely thank her for the
compliment, a door slammed behind them. She felt Tiffany startle at the sight
of the last girl to arrive. Taller than Sunny, she was dressed in black clothes
that hung off her slender frame. The girl glared in their direction from under
spiky hair, her dark eyes framed with heavy black liner. She sneered at them
then defiantly took a drag off her cigarette before flicking it into the
street.
“Don’t ever call me Lacey.”
Sunny felt a flash of uncertainty at the anger
she heard in her voice but remembered her own manners. “Well, what would you
like us to call you?”
“Shade.”
Tiffany took a step behind Sunny. “What do you
do?”
“Necromancer. I see dead people.”
“For reals?” Tiffany’s voice squeaked.
Shade laughed. “That line never gets old.”
Tiffany looked confused so Sunny explained. “A
necromancer can speak to the dead and interact with their shades.” Sunny
smiled. “Oh, I get your name now, clever.”
“What’s a shade?” asked Tiffany.
“Invisible zombies.” Shade curled her fingers
into claws and moaned dramatically.
Tiffany gave a little squeak and ducked behind
Sunny again. Sunny continued to grin, deciding she liked the angry girl despite
the dark energy that seemed to be hanging around her. “It’s just another name
for a ghost.”
The van behind Shade peeled away with a
screech of tires and sped down the street. Sunny felt a sharp jab of hurt
emanate from Shade that didn’t match the angry scowl on her face. Sunny’s power
of empathy continued to be a mystery to her since she didn’t fully understand
how it was she could feel what others did. She hated it when their emotions
didn’t match their words or body language. Sunny went with her instinct and
stepped closer to Shade.
“Why didn’t your mother stay?” Tiffany asked.
“She doesn’t care about a stupid movie. She’s
just happy to get rid of me for the weekend.”
“It’s not a movie. It’s a documentary about
special kids who have psychic abilities,” Sunny said.
“Whatever.” Shade turned away from her and
wiped at her face. “It’s stupid.”
“My mother says I’m cursed and it’s the devil
inside me.” Tiffany blushed and stared at her feet, her hands in her pockets.
“What?” Sunny was shocked. “They are gifts, not curses.” She felt instantly
protective of Tiffany and shot an angry look at the woman talking with Sunny’s
parents.
“Oh.” Tiffany waved a hand. “That’s not my
mother; it’s my aunt Darleen. We didn’t tell her we were coming. She flat-out
refused when she got the invitation, so we lied and said we were going to Portland for the
weekend.
Shade chuckled
and crossed her skinny arms. “This might not suck.”
Tiffany’s story picks up in Book Two: The
Quickening.
Tiffany Curran has the ability to read places and people by
touch, and although it’s a gift she uses to help people, it’s also a curse that
prevents her from having much human contact. She tries to keep life simple, but
that all changes when Katerina Volchosky calls in the Sisters of Spirits
paranormal team for help.
Kat is tired of reporting about violence in the city and vows this story is her last. She is hoping that S.O.S. can connect with a serial killer’s victims to help provide clues. When she meets Tiffany, she dreams of a promise made centuries ago to a flame-haired priestess.
Ancient whispers of curses and witches haunt Tiffany’s nightmares, and the closer she and Kat get to the murderer, the louder the whispers get. Worse, Tiffany has a horrific suspicion she might know who the killer is.
Kat is tired of reporting about violence in the city and vows this story is her last. She is hoping that S.O.S. can connect with a serial killer’s victims to help provide clues. When she meets Tiffany, she dreams of a promise made centuries ago to a flame-haired priestess.
Ancient whispers of curses and witches haunt Tiffany’s nightmares, and the closer she and Kat get to the murderer, the louder the whispers get. Worse, Tiffany has a horrific suspicion she might know who the killer is.
Ghosts,
Witches, Demons, they’re all in a day’s work for Tiffany but when she meets
Kat, life takes on another dimension altogether.
Since Barb has generously given me this time to promote The
Quickening: Book Two in the SOS series, I’d like to give away an electronic
copy of, Book One: The Awakening!
It is my hope that after you fall in love with the characters
like I (and so many others) did, you’ll want to continue the journey with me as
the sisters battle ghosts, test their boundaries, and fall in love.
If you’d like to know more about my books, including my
award-winning Sometime Yesterday, here are my links. I love to interact with my
readers!
All
books are available in any format on my Bold Strokes Books Author page: http://www.boldstrokesbooks.com/Author-Yvonne-Heidt.html
Website: http://yvonneheidt.com
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Always a pleasure to play with Barb :)
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Thank you Zoey :)
ReplyDeleteLouise! That is a HUGE compliment! Thank you so much :)
DeleteYou are very welcome
ReplyDeleteRead the ebook. Would love the paperback.
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