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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

It's Win-a-Book Wednesday with...Eleri Stone!

Posted by: Jane Kindred

Eleri Stone




Eleri Stone is a RITA-nominated author of paranormal and fantasy romance. Born and raised in New Jersey, she now lives in Iowa with her husband and their three children. All of her stories have some element of speculative fiction and they all end with a happily-ever-after.
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Before the cure, Lieutenant Lyle Dalton’s job was simple: kill the Reapers. Now, under orders to inject all captured flesh eaters with the serum that restores their humanity, his Rangers at Fort Dougan face entirely new dangers. Someone wanted the Reaper cure badly enough to spill blood for it, and Lyle needs to steal it back if he hopes to hold the border.

Jane Fisher escaped Scraper crime boss Gideon Moore with only the clothes on her back. What he took from her can never be replaced, but her new home at Fort Dougan is the first safe one she’s known. Or was, until the remaining supply of serum was stolen, flown high into the mountains on Gideon’s command. Serving as Lyle’s guide through Scraper territory means revisiting her own personal hell, but it’s also an opportunity—for closure or revenge, Jane isn’t quite sure.

Beautiful, proud and haunted, Jane is a temptation Lyle’s worked hard to avoid. The mountains are the last place she needs to be. But if Jane can find the courage to face down a man like Gideon for the sake of the fort, no force on earth will keep Lyle from her side.


GUN SHY has lots of adventure with gunslingers, robber barons, and daring airship rescues, but at heart, it's a sweet and sexy friends to lovers story. It's Book Two in the Reaper series, but if the winner would rather have Book One, REAPER'S TOUCH, or any of my other books, that's completely fine with me. THE ADVENTURES OF CASSIUS FLYNN AND MOLLY MCGUIRE (Reaper 1.5) can be read for free here


Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Weird Science

Posted by: Unknown
I loved the television show Fringe, a series about…how to sum it up? It’s about a scientist who invents crazy stuff, realizes the error of his ways, removes part of his brain and then after discovering that he’s broken both his universe and a parallel universe, attempts to put everything back together again. 

It’s great because it explores that point where science and the supernatural meet which has always been a particular fascination of mine. It's the same sort of thing that attracted me to the X Files. Whenever a link to a weird science story crosses my path, I have to click on it. A few years ago, I clicked on a link to a freaky science story about behavior altering parasites, and the idea that there are parasites out there that can take over their host's nervous system captured my imagination.

Behavior altering parasites trigger a bio-chemical reaction inside their host that changes the host’s behavior in some way that’s beneficial to the reproduction of the parasite. You can read more about that here or here. There are wasps who force their host spiders to create special webs for them to hang their cocoons. Barnacles that force crabs to play nursemaid to their eggs. A hairworm that forces its grasshopper host to commit suicide. It's cool and kind of gross and very, very interesting.

And, of course, I thought...what if something similar could happen to humans? That idea helped to inspire my new book, REAPER'S TOUCH, specifically the idea of the Reapers themselves. The parasites in REAPER'S TOUCH turn perfectly normal human beings into violently aggressive, cannibalistic and practically immortal creatures whose main desire in life is to infect other humans by biting them. Set those monsters loose in 19th century America and you have Wild West meets Bio-Plague Apocalypse.

Have you ever been fascinated by a weird science story that’s stuck with you?


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Eleri Stone was born and raised in New Jersey. She graduated from the University of Iowa, married her college sweetheart, and settled in the Midwest where she still lives with her husband and their three children. A lifelong fan of fantasy, she started reading romance as an adult and was instantly captivated by the strong female protagonists and character-driven storylines. All of her stories have some element of speculative fiction and they all end with a happy-ever-after.






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