Author Name: Linda Nightingale
Your hero or heroine occupies a room in a haunted mansion. Which room is it and why?
The hero in Sinners’ Opera is Morgan D’Arcy. His ancestral estate is Royal Oak, a castle in Devon, England. The castle ghost, his great aunt Paula, haunts the Music Room. She, too, was a pianist, in that century, playing a harpsichord not a piano. Her sad tale is that she played her own requiem then walked to the shore and leapt into the rocky sea below, dying for unrequited love.
What is your favorite Halloween or autumn decoration?
My favorite decoration has a very pleasant memory attached. It is a blue beaded centerpiece. At the center is a black beaded owl with yellow eyes. This decoration was given to me at Heather Graham’s Writers for New Orleans one year, and it is always the first decoration (and sometimes only when I can’t find my others) one out for the season.
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Featured Book Title: Sinners’ Obsession
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Blurb:
A frantic mother researches her daughter’s flawed DNA in a race against time, suffering disappointment after disappointment in her search for a cure.
In this sequel to Sinners’ Opera, Morgan D’Arcy, English lord, classical pianist and vampire, finally wins his Isabeau. Six months of painful separation have eroded Isabeau’s need to remain true to her wicked bargain with the most powerful vampire in the world, Lucien St. Albans. During their estrangement, Isabeau gives birth to Morgan’s daughter, Eroica–a DarkeChilde, half-human and half-vampire, outlawed by the Vampyre Code. She loves Morgan too much to live without him and relents to his enticing pursuit, but a dangerous confession nearly shatters their idyllic existence. In a dark moment, Morgan tells Isabeau their child carries a defective gene that will cause Eroica to go mad at puberty.
Eroica D’Arcy is the subject of Isabeau’s deal with the devil. When their beautiful blonde daughter reaches her twentieth birthday, she is promised to the Dark Prince of vampires, Lucien St. Albans.
Excerpt:
Beaufort, South Carolina
In six months, the pain should have subsided.
Grief and sorrow still twisted her heart. Isabeau clamped a hand to the burning in her chest and hurried through the darkness along the familiar path to the log cabin. She’d grown up in Beaufort, but it no longer felt like home.
Nowhere does.
Only the whisper of the pines broke the silence of the chill November night. Before she left the stables, she’d checked the white ceramic watch she’d bought on sale. The silver hands pointed to nine o’clock. In her jewelry box at home were countless reminders of a life lost. She never wore the emeralds, diamonds or expensive watches anymore. The jewelry he’d bought her glittered alone in the darkness.
Time had dimmed the exquisite, dreamlike happiness she’d known but not the memories.
By eight, her mother would have tucked Eroica into bed. She’d stayed too long with Bianco, grooming and petting the white stallion. On her sixteenth birthday, a transport van had delivered the answer to Isabeau’s prayers. For thirteen years, she’d begged her parents for a horse. The driver claimed that her father had won a contest, the prize a beautiful Andalusian. Bianco was the first of many mysterious gifts. For twenty-eight years, Marianne Gervase kept a secret from her daughter… and her husband. When Isabeau learned the truth, it was too late. She was already in love with her godfather.
Last month, on October 11th, a miracle was born. Isabeau intended to breast fed her little Libra, but the baby had tried to bite her nipple. Knowing who-what-Eroica’s father was, Isabeau bottle fed her daughter. As Lucien St. Albans had predicted, Eroica was a female reproduction of her father. She had his silken blond hair, his captivating blue eyes. Isabeau had rejected Morgan’s calls, hadn’t opened his emails or the snail mail letters arriving once a week. She was familiar with his iron will. In every way possible, he tried to seduce his way back into her life. If she’d heard his aristocratic voice on the phone or read the same lilting cadence in the emails, she’d have lost her battle against him.
But, God, it hurt.
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Author Bio:
I am something of a gypsy. I was born in South Carolina, but have lived in England, Canada, Miami, Atlanta and Houston. For years, I bred, trained and showed Andalusian horses and have seen a lot of this country from the windshield of a truck pulling a horse trailer.
My work has won several writing awards, including the Georgia Romance Writers Magnolia Award. In February, I retired to write fulltime. In my former life, I was a legal assistant. I have two incredible sons, one in England; the other a graphic artist in Houston. I’m a member of the Houston Symphony League and enjoy events with my car club. I love my snazzy black convertible and my parlor grand piano (it’s a player).
Halloween Page Contest
As part of the Halloween Page Contest, Linda is offering an Ebook of Sinners’ Opera (worldwide) and autographed cover flat; fashion opal earrings (US only). For details on how to enter for the chance to win, visit http://www.kate-hill.com/halloween2014.html.
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Loved the excerpt and look forward in reading this series.
I can’t wait to read this second book!
I loved the owl. It is beautiful. Thanks for sharing such a wonderful excerpt.
Hi Tracey! Thanks for stopping by. Please contact me and let me know if you would like the book or the earrings. Nitethyme 2003 at yahoo. com