This alluring release from Victoria Dannan caught my attention right away. Victoria will be giving away a little special something. See the end of her post for the question! If you're looking for the ROMANCING the HOP, see my the next post ...
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Regarding the
question about the type of powers possessed by the heroine of My Familiar Stranger, she has two. One
is supernatural, but explainable from a science fiction perspective.
Her name is
Elora Laiken. She is part of a powerful, ruling clan - a distant relative of
the monarch - in a dimension that is similar, but not identical to our own.
That's why I call her a stranger in a "stangish" land. When the clan
was gathered for a festival, a rival political group staged a coup in the form
of a massacre. Minutes ahead of her own inevitable assassination, she is forced
into a pre-experimental device by her tutor and mentor.
When she was
deposited at her destination in an alien dimension, she was so damaged they
weren't even sure she was humanoid and had no expectation that she would
recover. Needless to say, she did heal after several months' convalescence and then
discovered she had gained some bonuses in the process. In the book that process
was compared to being forced through a giant cheese grater while being tumbled
like a rock polishing machine. Since her body was designed for the properties
of another dimension, her cell density in the new world gives her strength and
speed that exceeds that of record holders.
Partly by
fortune and partly by design of the transport's inventor, she landed in a very
old, secret society of vampire hunters and paranormal investigators who are
accustomed to dealing with highly unusual phenomena. The exceptional physical
attributes were a device woven into the plot to make it possible for the
heroine to aspire to working with the modern day knights who befriend her.
Her other power
is not supernatural, but is highly prized and serves her equally; the power of
charm. Not the kind that may be acquired through training such as a Dale
Carnegie course. The kind that is innate and as natural to the personality as
breathing in and out. If you doubt the value of charm, it probably means you
have it in spades. Those who don't have it recognize that it is the prize that trumps all others:
beauty, wealth, political power, talent, and so on.
It is that charm
that is principally responsible for three gorgeous men simultaneously pursuing
her romantically. In the end she must choose between the honorable and stalwart
hero who saved her life twice, the beautiful elf who believes she is his mate,
or the intensely seductive six-hundred-year-old vampire.
My Familiar Stranger will be available in Kindle format for
FREE for three days over the Labor Day Weekend beginning September 1st and
ending at midnight on the third so that anyone who has not had a chance to read
it can do so before release of the second book in the series, The Witch's Dream, on October 14.
