Stolen Sun: The Juliana Lucio Series by L.C. DeCarlo

Stolen Sun: The Juliana Lucio Series by L.C. DeCarlo

Late one night following her shift in the emergency department, Dr. Juliana Lucio is violently attacked and left for dead. To her surprise she wakes up to find she has been turned into a creature that only exists in her dreams--a vampire. Now, two new Master Vampires are in town, and want to use Juliana’s unusual abilities to further their own plans of destruction. Because of Juliana's refusal to join them, they set their sights on Juliana's teenage son, and they don't plan on leaving town until he has fangs of his own.

Juliana is then forced to turn to the woman who stole her life, and family, to get her help in protecting them. Can Juliana, her Sire, and her sire's sexy best friend stop the powerful master vampires before they take her son . . . or will none of them make it out alive?

Stolen Sun is the introduction to a paranormal series that will become a very dystopian like society. Humans have no knowledge of vampires, and the vampires want it to stay that way. Well, most of them do at least. But events have taken place, and factions are already in the works to oust the vampires to humankind; with Juliana’s refusal to comply everything goes on fast-forward. In this novel we get to see the lengths the good guys will go to to keep Juliana’s family safe. In the second we get a close-up look up at the bad guys, and what they will do to get what they want.

I can be contacted at lcdecarlo@hotmail.com
Portions of my book are uploaded at: https://www.authonomy.com/books/36133/stolen-sun-the-juliana-lucio-series/

Thank you for your time,
Lisa DeCarlo

Maniac by Pattrick Whittaker

Maniac has found the way to commit the perfect murder - over and over again...

Meet Detective Inspector Harry Nyman, the world’s most reluctant policeman. He is an accomplished jazz musician who’d rather be playing music than solving crimes.

His plans to take time off to write an opera are thrown into disarray by a series of murders, each committed by a different person.

The killers all claim to have been possessed by a malignant spirit who calls himself Maniac.

At first, Harry does not believe such nonsense. But as the body count rises, he realises that not only is Maniac real, he has an agenda: to destroy Harry and his family.

This is a novel in the vein of American writers such as Dean Koontz and Stephen King with lashings of British detective fiction (Morse, Rebus, Marples) thrown into the mix. It is complete at 89,000 words.

About me: I am winner of the British Fantasy Society's Short Story Competition 2009. And I have made a number of short films, a couple of which have won awards. My website at www.coldfusion.freewebtools.com showcases much of my work.

Thank you for your time,

Patrick Whittaker
patrick.whittaker@live.com

Greenwood Tree by B. Lloyd

Complete at approximately 83,000 words, Greenwood Tree is a historical supernatural mystery set between the 1780s and 1920s'

Pagan gods don’t walk away just because you stop looking at them.
Regency Lichfield society is enthralled by the arrival of dashing ex-officer Orville; he charms his way into the salons, grand houses and even a great inheritance from extrovert Sir Morton – very unexpectedly.

After making himself unpopular and bankrupt, he ends up dead under mysterious circumstances in the Gronny Patch, an eerie parcel of land on his estate that is associated in local legend with the Green Man.

A hundred and forty years later, detective writer Julia Warren returns to her home in Lichfield to write her next novel. Her Aunt Isobel, up to her neck in preparations for the annual midsummer ball, has managed to root out an old journal from 1780 which might prove a source of inspiration. Once Julia starts reading her ancestor’s journal she becomes absorbed in solving the mystery surrounding officer Orville and Gronny Patch. Detective fever takes her over, and she moves from reality to legend as the Green Man stalks her dreams; events from the past seem set to re-enact themselves in the present and she finds herself unraveling more than one mystery.

Greenwood Tree started off inspired by a writing competition where the book had to be set in or around Lichfield. A life-long interest in mythology, and things generally spooky added extra fuel, plus observation of the continuous consumer interest in ‘GoldenAge’ crime fiction, topped with the old adage ‘Write the kind of book you would like to read’. Historically, the Georgian-Regency and 1920s are particularly favourite periods of mine and offered an excuse to delve into background research. It has been scribbled on laptop or in notebooks, on loose flying scraps of paper, on the backs of train tickets, the usual, and now sits on a few bookshelves on Authonomy in the hope of attracting an agent or publisher (ideally UK-based).

Partially uploaded onto Authonomy : http://www.authonomy.com/books/3374/greenwood-tree/A sequel (‘Of Soul Sincere’) is in progress (opening excerpt posted at http://authorsanon.wordpress.com/work-in-progress/#another-identifier)
Thank you for taking the time to consider my work. I look forward to hearing from you.

B.Lloyd
AuthorRing@gmail.com