Please help me welcome Author Helen Treharne to my blog today!
Relative
Strangers:
A
Modern Vampire Story
Sophie
Morgan Vampire Series
Book
1
Helen
Treharne
Genre: Urban Fantasy
ISBN-10: 1502369435
ASIN: B00MRAZGK0
Number of pages: 301
Word Count: 96,500
Book Description:
Meet Sophie Morgan… practical,
Welsh, prone to occasional profanity, and seemingly a vampire magnet.
Sophie Morgan is 23 and has
always done the right thing. She’s caused no stress for her family, worked hard
through university, has taken a successful leap onto the career ladder and nurtured
a reasonably healthy bank balance. It’s
no small surprise then when, on a post relationship break-up, mini-break to
Antwerp, she pursues a pair of thieves who steal her friend’s handbag. But this is only the start of her world being
turned upside down. Ripped from the
streets into a dark alley she is violently attacked, barely alive when quirky
Irish bar worker, Michael Kelly, stumbles across the scene.
The pair, shocked by their
experience and uncertain whether they have killed her attacker in the brawl
which follows, go into the night for answers.
They get more than they bargained for. Sophie quickly learns that
vampires exist, her neighbours back home aren’t what they seem and new
boyfriends can be found in the strangest of situations.
Relative Strangers is the first
in a new vampire series with a distinctly British flavour, but which will
appeal to everyone. Reviews call it
" a vampire tale with bite", with "brilliant characters that draw
you in" and a very fresh take on the genre. Read it now to find out
reviewers are raving about.
Available at Amazon Smashwords
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Excerpt:
I wakened with a
jolt, my heart beating, and my lids heavy. The glowing display of my alarm
clock informed me it was four a.m. Had the noise been real, or had I been
dreaming? My brain fired up and I took in my surroundings. I'd spent two months
living with my mother in my childhood home following my sudden relocation back
to South Wales. I'd only moved into my own place a few days earlier and was
disorientated. Bed, furniture, dressing gown draped over the chair- all mine,
definitely my bedroom, no one else in the room with me, all good. So what the
hell was that noise?
My anxiety
levels were sky high. It had been a terrible year, one brimming with violence
and death. I couldn't take another emotional or physical beating; I hoped my
imagination was playing tricks on me. Please don't let this be anything more
than a dream, I prayed.
I tentatively
reached across the nightstand to flick on the lamp, but quickly retracted my
hand. What if there is someone in the house? There could be someone downstairs.
You don't want to let them know you're up here. Think Sophie, is that what woke
you up, could that have caused the noise you heard - was it a bang, something
smashing? It might be better to err on the side of caution. Take a breath,
think before you do anything.
Slipping my legs
from under the duvet I padded over to the window and quietly pulled the cord to
lift the blind. It was dark outside. Dawn wouldn't surface for several hours,
but the street lamp at the bottom of the garden afforded me a little light. The
town council switched them on early during the winter months.
Everything
outside looked peaceful. The gate at the bottom of the path knocked
rhythmically against its post in the cold January wind. I must have failed to
close it properly.
Another noise.
Was it a noise? Did I really hear something? Yep, definitely coming from
downstairs. Blood whooshed through my ears as my heart began pumping adrenaline
through my body. Someone else was in my house. Someone was moving downstairs.
Oh my God, no, not here. How could he have found me? Why now? I've been moving
on. I didn't even tell.
My body froze in
panic, but something deep in my gut forced my brain into action. There was no
way I was going to give in after I’d battled for so long and so hard to stay
alive, to survive. Nobody was going to rob me of that, or anything else for
that matter. I quickly assessed my options, but they didn’t add up to much.
I could hide out in my room and hope that the
intruder would go of their own accord. Perhaps they'd just be an ordinary
burglar - they'd be in and out. They'd take my purse, mobile phone and keys
which I'd left in the kitchen and escape but I could replace things. At least
I'd be alive and unharmed.
But what if I
just stayed put and they came upstairs, perhaps looking for things of higher
value? Based on my experience, it was more likely that it was some sicko who
would then have me penned in. I'd have no escape and be at their mercy. I
wasn't ever going to let that happen to me again.
Thoughts machine
gunned their way through my brain, but I decided to come down on the side of
braving it, going downstairs and confronting my intruder. Maybe, I'd be lucky
and it would just be a petty thief, more scared of me than I of him. But on the
other hand, perhaps it was him. If so, I was probably dead already, may as well
get it over with.
About
the Author:
After a successful career in
business and career coaching, Helen Treharne returned to South Wales in 2010 to
focus on writing, among other things.
Relative Strangers, a modern
vampire story featuring an increasingly feisty Sophie Morgan, hits digital
bookshelves in 2014. In addition to being the creator of the developing “Sophie
Morgan" series, she is an urban poet and social commentator who can
frequently be found ranting in the Twitterverse. She knew the degree in
Sociology would come in handy some day!
Helen lives with her husband,
three cats, an entrenched tea addiction and an increasing collection of
stringed instruments. When she’s not writing she spends her time daytime hours
working in communications and volunteers for a feline welfare charity. She can't be trusted near stationery and has
had more come backs than Cher.
Twitter @Tea_Talks https://twitter.com/Tea_Talks
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Keep Writing!
Jodie Pierce
Thanks for having me over Jodie. I love your site. So many great books and authors on here. Good luck to everyone entering the giveaway.
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