January 1, 2001 Julie pulled the string on another party popper. Confetti shot across the living room, accompanied by a faint smell of gunpowder. Marc sighed wearily. “C’mon, Jules. Don’t you think that’s enough now?” “It’s New Year’s Eve,” Julie replied, stubbornly setting off another one. Tangled strings of paper floated lightly to earth, and […]
December 31, 1999 New Year’s Eve Damian leaned against the railing of the second-floor balcony and cast a jaded eye over the crowded ballroom below. The decorations were a tad overdone, in his opinion. Gaudy gold-and-silver Mylar festooned every surface—the bar, the tables, even the walls. The glare all but blinded him. Overhead, a billowing […]
New Year’s Eve, 1981 Try as he might, Conrad could not decide which aspect of tonight’s event was the most aggravating. The lights had been an early contender. They glared blindingly at him from nearly every wall, every surface, every fixture in his house, making him yearn for the past, for those halcyon centuries long […]
I’m not giving them away (although there is a free read related to the series on my blog: http://rhymeswithforeplay.blogspot.com/p/free-reads.html) but two of the books in my Children of Night series are heavily NYE-centric. Now Comes the Night (book three in the series) opens with a flashback to NYE 1969 and also contains a flashback to […]
Are you ready for a GREAT 2018? I so am. And to get things started right, I’ve got a couple of freebies for you. The first is my story Sea Change, which is a sequel novella to my Oberon series. You can find it on Instafreebie between now and midnight on January 8. https://www.instafreebie.com/free/Ky3Dd Love is […]
In my last post I shared an excerpt from In the Dark (Children of Night, book one), a flashback scene to when the twins, Marc and Julie Fischer were infants. In book two, Old Sins, Long Shadows, the flashback scenes are all from a much earlier time (mostly fifteenth century Spain). Our next view of the […]
