Halloween Trivia Questions: People have been frightened and fascinated by werewolves for ages. Nowadays they’re often intriguing romance heroes, but which old fairytale features a terrifying werewolf? A. Rapunzel B. Little Red Riding Hood C. The Juniper Tree (Find the answer below.)
Valerie Ullmer
Valerie’s Top 3 Horror Movies:
1) Hush (2016) featuring a wonderful Katie Siegel who featured in the show The Haunting of Hill House and John Gallagher, Jr. the actor from Newsroom. In the movie, Katie Siegel is a deaf writer living on her own when a serial killer (John Gallagher, Jr.) targets her.
2) You’re Next (2011) Featuring Sharni Vinson who has to fight to live during an anniversary weekend goes awry.
3) A Cabin in the Wood (2011) This is a wonderful comedy horror movie about a group of teenagers who spend the weekend in the cabin in the woods. Instead of the typical horror tropes, the movie takes a complete 180. This is a must watch for people like me who hate horror movies, but love strong women protagonists, similar to the two other movies on my list.
About Valerie:
Valerie writes romances.
Contemporary, Paranormal, Erotic, and M/M.
She lives in Denver, Colorado with her wonderfully supportive husband and their funny and wise black lab, Maddie. Valerie is addicted to coffee, crime shows, and reading and writing character-driven romances.
As a voracious reader, she’s believes that all writers are rock stars, and she hopes that people enjoy her stories as much as she loves the romance novels she’s devoured over the years!
When she’s not writing or learning about the craft of writing, she can be found surfing the internet way too much, watching Investigation Discovery and thinking that her neighbors are up to no good, and finding new ways to get her husband to laugh.
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eaper (A Dark Assassins Novel Book Two)
Blurb:
A wolf-shifter and his powerful human.
Reaper had expected it to be an easy assignment. Break into a biotech facility with minimum security and rescue a group of immortals who were subject to deadly experiments and eliminate those who might try to fight back. But the moment he walked into the glass prison and spotted a human woman being held with the immortals, his mission changed.
She became his mission.
Before Reaper had a chance to explain that he was there to help her, she blinded him and the rest of his team and slipped away. Although she had escaped him, a protectiveness that he’d never felt washed over him, and he became determined to find her.
Ara has always depended on herself, but there was something about the shifter that made her want to trust him. She recognized him as someone who was capable of protecting her as well as understanding her secrets without turning her away, but before she could allow herself to trust him, she ran.
But with no resources and running out of ideas about how to protect herself, will she be able to lower her defenses and allow the shifter to help her?
Excerpt:
It took a long moment for her to understand.
When the situation became clear, she could do nothing but watch in horror as a barrage of bullets pierced Reaper’s sweater and embedded in his chest. As if in slow motion, she watched each hit; his blood sprayed as each bullet exited his back. Her body sat frozen as she watched Reaper disappear out of view, dropping onto the ground the moment the gunfire ceased.
Without a thought to anything but her urgency to get to Reaper, she wrenched the passenger door open and stepped out into the darkness. She didn’t feel the cold or hear the wind, but the movement from her periphery broke into her shock.
The man who had fired at Reaper stood ten yards from the SUV near the pines that surrounded the property. It took her a long moment before she realized why he didn’t continue firing; the gun had jammed.
The gunman glanced up at her and met her eyes. “Fuck, fuck, fuck.”
His frantic movements increased, and with brute force, the empty casing exited the gun before the next one slid into place. His relief was palpable the moment he raised the gun and pointed it at her.
Rage and hatred surrounded her, pulsed in her veins as it coursed through her, and she welcomed the alien feelings. She didn’t care that this man wanted to kill her. This stranger had shot and killed Reaper, because of her.
The guilt mixed with her other swirling emotions, until revenge and resentment took precedence. She wanted more time with Reaper, to truly get to know him without her problems coming between them, but life had played the cruelest trick on her. The one time she found a place where she fit—a person who accepted her—all of her, and it had been taken away from her. Pain and death. That was all she brought.
Footsteps and shouts came from the direction of the house, but her glare never left the one man who would suffer because of her mistakes. The voices came closer, and she knew that she had to keep them from the fight. Not wanting to take a chance that his friends might be hurt because of her, she pushed them back onto the wrap-around porch and erected an invisible barrier to keep them from interfering and becoming targets.
When the gunman had thought her attention was diverted, he lifted his weapon, finger on the trigger and a sneer of hatred disfiguring his face.
The rage had taken hold. Without knowing what her actions would cause, she waved her free hand at the gunman and a sense of satisfaction washed through her when he dropped to his knees and a scream of pain tore through the quiet of the night. She watched in calm detachment as his fingers gouged deep, prolonged gashes in his skin, moving from his arms to his face. Wanting him to suffer more because of what he had taken from her, she clenched her hand into a fist and squeezed. A strangled cry erupted from his throat, but instead of any prolonged effect, his eyes rolled up into his head and he fell over, dead.
The moment she had killed the man, reality came back to her in a rush.
“Reaper.”
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Answer to Halloween Trivia Question: B. Little Red Riding Hood
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