Fall #Romantic
Travel
It’s true that Romania, my country, is the homeland of Count Dracula, the infamous
vampire, but when you visit the country in autumn you are not only going to
enjoy its imagery of medieval castles but also spectacular views of autumn’s
finest foliage.
You can enjoy
romantic walks in leafy parks dusted with crunchy auburn, red and gold leaves.
Or visit the rural areas for a rustic experience and
fill your lungs with the strong, fresh air in the mountains. It’s also hard not
to feel starry-eyed among the rolling hills and fragrant vines of wine regions.
And what place can be more suitable for rekindling
the sparks of love than a visit at The Gate of the Kiss that features a kiss
motif on the gate pillars?
Till Life Do Us Part
Blurb
Barbara
Heyer can hear voices of dead people. They whisper of their deaths, seek
comfort for those left behind, and occasionally even warn her about future
events. But when Barbara’s brother, Colin, is accused of murder, it will take
more than her gift to prove his innocence.
Becoming
smitten with the handsome investigator, Detective Patrick Fischer, is a serious
complication given his assignment to her brother’s case. Barbara senses there
is something far deeper—and perhaps much older—than the surface attraction
between them. Could that be why she’s visited by a mysterious woman named Emma
in her dreams? Could past life regression tie all the seemingly unconnected
events together?
Barbara
and Patrick must overcome heartache to find the truth to save Colin, and
perhaps themselves.
Excerpt
Patrick
poured the bubbly liquid into the glasses. He offered one to Barbara and raised
his.
“To
the undercover, paranormal investigator, Barbara.” He smiled and touched his
glass to hers, looking straight into her eyes.
“To
you, too, Patrick, Detective Fischer. If it hadn’t been for your determination to find
out the truth, many families wouldn’t have had the small consolation to see
their relatives’ murderers behind bars.” She took a sip of the champagne.
“There’s
something else I’d like to tell you,” Patrick said. He cleared his throat and
took one of her hands in his. “It’s something that I wanted to tell you... to
ask you for a while, but it never seemed the right moment.”
She
heard the tremor in his voice and was sure what was to come. Yet, she didn’t
want to make it easier for him. She saw it in his eyes, felt it in the touch of
his hands. He was in love with her as she was with him.
“So,
as I was saying... I want to ask you if—”
The
telephone rang again, cutting like a steel blade through the thick emotional
atmosphere surrounding them.
“Oh,
not again.” Barbara rolled her eyes upward and headed to the bloody thing. She
picked up the receiver and said in a voice that sounded a bit irritated, “Yes.
What? Who? Yes, one moment, please.” She turned to Patrick, “It’s for you. An
emergency, it seems.”
Patrick
grabbed the phone, “Yes, Fisher here. What? When? I’m on my way,” he said and
put down the receiver.
“I’m
sorry, Barbara. There’s an emergency, indeed. Bruce has been injured. He’s in
the hospital right now.”
“Oh,
goodness. Is it bad?”
“I’ve
no idea. They didn’t say. I’m going there. Sorry I spoiled the evening.”
“No
need for apology, Patrick,” Barbara replied hiding her disappointment. “Duty
comes first in your job, I know.”
“I’ll
call you. Soon. There was something important I wanted to tell... to ask you.
Goodnight, Barbara,” he said and kissed
her hand affectionately. He hurried outside.
Barbara
stood in the middle of the room. It looked empty and cold without him. She took
the bottle of champagne, pushed the cork back into it, then went to the kitchen
and put it in the fridge.
Moments
later, she returned to the living room. With a reflexive gesture she picked up
the packet of cigarettes Patrick had forgotten on the table. She weighed them
in her hand for a moment and smiling, opened a drawer of the bookshelf and
placed the cigarettes inside. She took her book from the bookshelf and sat on
the couch, enveloped by the faint smell of aftershave left behind by Patrick.
Jack
stretched, then came to Barbara and curled up in her lap.
“Yes,
Jack. It is like that. It’s always been like that. Just you and me.” She sighed
and opened the book. She failed to notice a faint light hovering outside the
window.
Author
Bio
Carmen Stefanescu
resides in Romania, the native country of the infamous vampire Count Dracula,
but where, for about 50 years of communist dictatorship, just speaking about
God, faith, reincarnation or paranormal phenomena could have led someone to
great trouble - the psychiatric hospital if not to prison.
High school teacher
of English and German in her native country, and mother of two daughters,
Carmen Stefanescu survived the grim years of oppression, by escaping in a
parallel world that of the books.
Several of her
poems were successfully published in a collection of Contemporary English
Poems, Muse Whispers vol.1 and Muse Whispers vol.2 by Midnight Edition
Publication, in 2001 and 2002.
Her first novel, Shadows of the Past, was released
in 2012 by Wild Child Publishing, USA.
Carmen joined the volunteer
staff at Marketing For Romance Writers Author blog and is the coordinator of
#Thursday13 posts.
Other books by Carmen Stefanescu:
Shadows
of the Past – paranormal/light romance/light
historical/light mystery
You
can stalk the author here:
Trailer for Till Life Do Us Part: https://youtu.be/UbuntlWISc0
Buy
Links:
Short URL for Amazon: https://goo.gl/H0dqkb
B&N http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/till-life-do-us-part-carmen-stefanescu/1123896837?ean=9781625263858
Thanks for sharing. Those are some beautiful pictures,
Tina
1 comment:
Thank you for hosting my latest paranormal mystery, Tina !
And thank you for the exchange that gives us the opportunity to make our work more visible!
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