SC:
And just like that we're into a new week, and we have author Shereen Vedam
visiting with us. Welcome, Shereen.
Tell
me a little bit about your main character of this book.
SV:
The heroine from Warlock from Wales is a human female who is about to encounter
something she’s never experienced. A magical spell will be cast on her. A demon
will be determined to devour her. And when she is tasked with uncovering the
history of an alien race, a member of that race sets out to ensure his people’s
secret stays hidden from the world by any means possible.
Just
one of those circumstances would send any of us screaming for help. Mary
Bryght, however, will live up to her name and try to overcome her challenges in
Warlock from Wales, Book 2 of The Cauldron Effect series.
SC:Magic
and aliens? Do I even need to ask this question? Do you believe in the
paranormal and if so, do you have an experience you can share?
SV:
There’s just been too much evidence to question it.
My
first and more dramatic paranormal experience would have to be the day my
mother died. I was miles away in another city when it happened. I was
deep-frying my dinner and the pan burst into flames.
I
was young and an idiot. I didn’t know how to put out the fire so decided to
carry the flaming pan out to the balcony and where it could burn out without
burning down the house where I was renting a suite. I thought ahead enough to
actually run over and open the balcony door before I picked up that pan of hot
burning oil.
No
surprise, the oil sloshed and spilled on my way out of the kitchen. It splashed
across my jeans and landed on the floor and scorched the linoleum.
I
did get it out of the house and onto the balcony. There I found something to
cover it so the fire could be put out.
When
I returned inside to check on the damage I’d done, I knelt to look at the
blacked linoleum and only then noticed my jeans that were also soaked. Except,
I wasn’t burned by the hot oil. Not even a little.
Later
that night, my brother arrived, having driven for over 5 hours, to give me the
news in person that my mother had died earlier that day. The timing coincidence
was unforgettable between when she died and when the fire began. My mother
always had a flare for the dramatic. Guess she decided to say goodbye to me in
her flamboyant fashion.
SC:
Yikes! Quite the story! What titles are you working on now that you can tell us
about?
VS:
The sequel to Warlock from Wales, is Love Spell in London and it is currently
on pre-order in the science fiction and fantasy boxed set, Rogue Skies.
After
that I’ll be working on a new urban fantasy series about investigating
supernatural mysteries. You can learn more about this on my website.
SC:
Thank so much. Let's take a look at your novel now.
Warlock from Wales
The Cauldron Effect
Book Two
Shereen Vedam
Genre: Fantasy Regency Romance, PNR
Date of Publication: May 21, 2019
ISBN: 978-1-989036-01-3
ASIN: B07NYV3X3M
Number of pages: 284
Word Count: 86,890
Cover Artist: Desiree DeOrto
Tagline: A historian in search of truth. A warlock charged to stop her.
Book Description:
When Hugh is yanked from his apprenticeship and summarily assigned to guard a human female, he is justly incensed.
But when a water demon snatches her from under his nose, he sets off on a desperate race to save her, and prove he is a warlock to be reckoned with.
Excerpt:
The Honorable
Mary Bryght, eighteen-year-old daughter of the late Viscount Holywell, faltered
and came to a startled halt. She’d been traveling through the woods to her
friend's home to deliver some astonishingly grand news about her brother. A
sound drew her gaze toward a strand of willows that drank from a small pond.
There, a stranger in a dark cape watched her, tapping a riding crop against his
Hessians. At the malevolence emanating from him, the hairs on Mary’s arms stood
to attention.
In the space of
one glance, her mood shifted from cheerful to fearful. She swallowed, tasting
dread, and swiftly gauged how fast she must run to reach Rose’s cottage before
this stranger’s long strides reached her. She took one deep breath in readiness
to sprint, when the man appeared at her side, his large hand grasping her upper
arm so hard it pinched.
She cried out.
He dropped his riding crop and covered her mouth with his hand, swamping her
senses with a pungent aroma of horse sweat and leather.
Fifteen feet!
That’s how far away he’d been. Yet, he had closed the distance between them as
if it had only been two feet. Heart pounding in terror, she kicked his shin,
bit hard onto a gloved finger and with her free hand, punched his throat as her
father had taught her.
He grunted and
loosened his grip.
Mary tore away
and ran. Within a half dozen steps her body froze. There was no other way to
describe the bizarre experience. She could not shift one foot, one hand, one
finger. She was a statue in mid-motion.
About the Author:
Once upon a time, USA Today bestselling author Shereen Vedam read fantasy and romance novels to entertain herself. Now she writes heartwarming tales braided with threads of magic and love and mystery elements woven in for good measure.
Shereen's a fan of resourceful women, intriguing men, and happily-ever-after endings. If her stories whisk you away to a different realm for a few hours, then Shereen will have achieved one of her life goals.
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