Thanks so much for
having us on your blog today. We are going to talk about a special skill our
shape shifters possess.
When people think
about the classic shape shifter, i.e. werewolf, they normally associate a
higher sense of smell or strength with the creature. Because we were building
our shape shifting world outside the normal vein of shape shifting that most
readers are familiar with, we gave our shifters a different skill. Some of our
higher level shifters possess the ability to read auras.
For those who don’t
know what an aura is, it is an energy field that appears around the body which
reflects the life energies of the person. Proponents of auras believe you can
teach yourself to see the auras of other people. Different colors seen in the
aura indicate basic health, emotions, and mental activity. Believers in auras
feel you have a basic color that reflects your dominant personality. Others
believe the aura is constantly changing, reflecting a person’s emotional state.
Our shifters can’t be
taught to read auras. It’s something that happens to them and delineates them
as high-level shifters. The magic bloodstone ring, that provides the ability to
shape shift, also has an aura. Shifters who can read auras can see this green
and red ring aura as well as the person’s basic aura life-energy colors. This
allows them to read a shape shifters emotions and determine if they are good or
bad shifters. Bad shifters have a red and black aura. Good shifters have a
green ring aura.
Alexi, our heroine in
The Promised One, can spot the bad
guys, shifter and non-shifter, with a simple scan of their auras. This is a
handy skill for a homicide detective to possess. Auric reading makes it easy to
hunt the villain and keep the good guys and bad guys sorted. Delaney, our
heroine in Blood Brothers, also has
this skill. When we got to Son of the
Moonless Night we decided to change things up a bit. Owen, our hero, does
not have this skill, which puts him at a definite disadvantage. To up the
danger for Alexi, who appears in all of the books, we caused her to lose the
ability part way through book three. One of the reasons we decided to adjust
this skill in some of our characters is because we realized auric reading could
present a problem. How can you lie to a high-level shifter who can read your
aura and tell whether or not you are being truthful? Secrets, which are
important to the story, would be impossible to hide and maintain.
Auric reading started
to be a problem for us until our characters came up with a way to mask their
auras. Just like an accomplished liar can beat a polygraph machine, our skilled
shifters can conceal their feelings by shutting down their emotions and hide
their lies by telling enough truth to cover the deception. However, they have
to be quick about it, because every time a high-level rogue shifter faces off
with a good shifter there is a lot of auric scanning going on. As for humans,
they don’t have a chance against a high-level shifter.
Here is an example
from Son of the Moonless Night when
the heroine, Katrina, faces off with Alexi:
Red flooded the colored rings of Katrina’s aura. She was anxious. “Someone said they saw you at the scene of the crime. Were you there?”“Who? The man in your office earlier? He lied. I was at home last night eating pizza.” She angled her body toward the door as if ready to run and stuffed her hands in her pockets.A partial truth. Alexi could see that. “I know about you. Since Delaney is retiring she told me I should have your back.”“I don’t know what you mean.”“Paranormal hunter,” Alexi said softly. “Is that what you were doing last night in the alley? I’m not saying you killed the man, just if you know anything about what happened you should share it with me. I can’t protect you if you don’t let me.”The stiffness went out of Katrina’s posture. “I didn’t have anything to do with what happened. I stumbled on it. That man in the drawer was a werebear. A really big one. He attacked a man. By the time I got into the alley, the bear was dead.”“The man you helped out of the alley. Who was he?”“I don’t know. I took him back to my place, and when I went out to get medical supplies he left.”“Why didn’t you take him to the hospital?”Kat gave her an are-you-crazy look. “Hello. Paranormal hunter here. I couldn’t tell the medics he’d been mauled by a non-existent bear. Besides, he begged me not to. I thought it in my best interest, and the city’s, to figure out what he knew. He left before I could find anything out.”“Do you think he knows what he shot?”“No. He called it, it, like you would if you’d shot an animal.” She locked her gaze on Alexi. “So, now you know, what are you going to do?”“About what?”“Me. The investigation into the werebear.”“Keep your secret and watch your back.
Title – Son of the Moonless Night,
The Turning Stone Chronicles, book three
Author – C.D. Hersh
Genre – Urban Fantasy, Paranormal
Suspense Romance
Heat Level - Sensual
Release Date: May 27th,
2015
HOOK
Thrust back into the world of paranormal huntress, Deputy
Coroner Katrina Romanovski must unravel a string of murders she believes are
vampire attacks. When she discovers the shape shifter she’s in love with is the
murderer, she must reconcile her feelings for him, examine her life of violence
against paranormals, and justify deceiving him in order to bring him to
justice.
BLURB
Owen Todd Jordan Riley has a secret. He’s a shape shifter
who has been hunting and killing his own kind. To him the only good shifter is
a dead shifter. Revenge for the death of a friend motivates him, and nothing
stands in his way . . . except Katrina Romanovski, the woman he is falling in
love with.
Deputy coroner Katrina Romanovski has a secret, too. She
hunts and kills paranormal beings like Owen. At least she did. When she rescues
Owen from an attack by a werebear she is thrust back into the world she thought
she’d left. Determined to find out what Owen knows about the bear, she begins a
relationship meant to collect information. What she gets is something quite
different-love with a man she suspects of murder. Can she reconcile his
deception and murderous revenge spree and find a way to redeem him? Or will she
condemn him for the same things she has done and walk away from love?
Amazon
buy links:
The
Promised One (The
Turning Stone Chronicles Book 1):
eBook: http://amzn.com/B00DUMODKI
paperback: http://amzn.com/1619353504
Blood Brothers
(The Turning Stone Chronicles Book 2):
eBook: http://amzn.com/B00OVNFC8W
paperback: http://amzn.com/1619358271
Son of the Moonless Night (The Turning Stone Chronicles Book
3):
eBook:
http://amzn.com/B00XK3E172
About the Authors: Putting words and stories on paper is second nature to co-authors
C.D. Hersh. They’ve written separately since they were teenagers and discovered
their unique, collaborative abilities in the mid-90s. As high school
sweethearts and husband and wife, Catherine and Donald believe in true love and
happily ever after.
Together they have co-authored a number of dramas, six which
have been produced in Ohio, where they live. Their interactive Christmas
production had five seasonal runs in their hometown and has been sold in
Virginia, California, and Ohio. Their most recent collaborative writing efforts
have been focused on romance. The first two books of their paranormal romance
series entitled The Turning Stone
Chronicles are available on Amazon. The third book in the series Son of the Moonless Night will be
released May 27th by Soul Mate Publishing.
Where you can find CD:
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