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Welcome to the release celebration of Descendants of the Rose by Juliette Harper! This is the first book in the Selby Jensen Paranormal Mysteries series and it's now available for sale for only .99 cents on Amazon!
Descendants of the Rose
Author: Juliette Harper
Genre: Paranormal Mystery
Book Description:
Selby Jensen’s business card reads “Private Investigator,” but to say the least, that downplays her real occupation. Let’s hear it in her own words:
“You want to know what I do for a living? I rip souls out. Cut heads off. Put silver bullets where silver bullets need putting. You think there aren't any monsters? . . . I have some disturbing news for you. You might want to sit down. Monsters walk among us. I'm looking for one in particular. In the meantime? I'm keeping the rest of them from eating people like you.”
In this debut novel of her new paranormal mystery series, Juliette Harper, author of The Lockwood Legacy books and The Study Club Mysteries creates a cast of characters, most of whom have one thing in common; they don’t have a pulse. The dead are doing just fine by Selby, who is determined never to lose someone she loves again, but then a force of love more powerful than her grief changes that plan.
Join Selby Jensen as she and her team track down a shadowy figure tied to a murder at a girls’ school. What none of them realize, however, is that in solving this case, they will enter a longer battle against a larger evil.
Author: Juliette Harper
Genre: Paranormal Mystery
Book Description:
Selby Jensen’s business card reads “Private Investigator,” but to say the least, that downplays her real occupation. Let’s hear it in her own words:
“You want to know what I do for a living? I rip souls out. Cut heads off. Put silver bullets where silver bullets need putting. You think there aren't any monsters? . . . I have some disturbing news for you. You might want to sit down. Monsters walk among us. I'm looking for one in particular. In the meantime? I'm keeping the rest of them from eating people like you.”
In this debut novel of her new paranormal mystery series, Juliette Harper, author of The Lockwood Legacy books and The Study Club Mysteries creates a cast of characters, most of whom have one thing in common; they don’t have a pulse. The dead are doing just fine by Selby, who is determined never to lose someone she loves again, but then a force of love more powerful than her grief changes that plan.
Join Selby Jensen as she and her team track down a shadowy figure tied to a murder at a girls’ school. What none of them realize, however, is that in solving this case, they will enter a longer battle against a larger evil.
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The author wrote a letter to her readers to explain why she decided to "genre hop".
To My Readers,
So
where the heck did this book come from? It came from a weekend of
writer’s block on another manuscript. Descendants of the Rose had been
sitting on my desk for more than a year while I’ve been working on The
Lockwood Legacy series. Then I switched gears to the cozy Study Club
Mysteries, but this other character -- Selby Jensen -- wouldn’t leave me
alone.
As usual, she knew what she was doing since the book debuted on the Amazon supernatural mystery bestseller list this morning.
Selby
wanted out there in the world, and that Saturday morning a couple of
weeks ago, she told me plainly that she’d waited long enough. I spent
the weekend with her, and Monday morning I had a complete draft ready
for my beta readers and proofreader.
This
might seem like a big genre hop, so I wanted to take a few minutes and
talk to you about how and why I write. Creating strong women characters
is my primary interest. I don’t want to be confined to or defined by any
genre. My goal is to put my characters in interesting, challenging, and
often painful situations and explore how they cope -- or don’t cope --
and wade through the fallout and triumphs with them.
From
page one of this book, you’ll meet a woman in pain over a tragic loss
in her life. She prefers to keep company with the dead, but her
commitment to protecting and improving the world of the living is her
real reason for existing. Yes, there is a murder that is solved in the
pages of this book, but Selby’s journey is only starting.
As
I’m writing to you today, I have a plot map on my desk for book two of
this series, Lost in Room 636 that centers around a grisly murder that
occurred in San Antonio, Texas on February 8, 1965. San Antonio is one
of the most haunted cities in America and it’s also Selby Jensen’s
stomping grounds, but you may be surprised where destiny leads this
woman over the series arc I have planned.
So,
while Selby jumped to the head of the line in my project planning,
she’s been an integral part of my creative vision for some time. I’m
delighted to introduce her to you, and while she’s different from the
women of the Rocking L in one way, in another, she’s not. Selby is the
kind of woman you want on your side in a fight. She’s never let me down,
and I don’t think she’ll let you down either.
Juliette
About the Author
Juliette Harper is the pen name used by the writing team of Patricia Pauletti and Rana K. Williamson. Descendants of the Rose is the first installment of Harper’s debut Selby Jensen Paranormal Mystery series.
Juliette Harper is the pen name used by the writing team of Patricia Pauletti and Rana K. Williamson. Descendants of the Rose is the first installment of Harper’s debut Selby Jensen Paranormal Mystery series.
Pauletti, an Easterner of Italian descent, is an accomplished musician with an eye for art and design. Williamson, a Texan, worked as a journalist and university history instructor before becoming a full-time freelance writer in 2002.
Juliette Harper is also the author of The Lockwood Legacy, a nine-book chronicle of the lives of three sisters who inherit a ranch in Central Texas following their father’s suicide. Three of the novels are currently available: Langston’s Daughters, Baxter’s Draw, and Alice’s Portrait. The fourth book, Mandy’s Father, will appear in Fall 2015.
And don’t miss her hilariously funny “cozy” Study Club Mysteries, a light-hearted spinoff of The Lockwood Legacy. The books, set in the 1960s, take on the often absurd eccentricities of small town life with good-natured, droll humor. The first book, You Can’t Get Blood Out of Shag Carpet, will be available shortly, with the second, You Can’t Put a Corpse in a Parade, coming in Summer 2015.
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