1. Please, have a seat. Make yourself comfortable Miss...
"Genevieve. My name is Genevieve, but Sister Clementa, the Abbess, and some of her followers call me The witch."
2. Tell me, Genevieve, where are you living?
Genevieve ( a small sigh escapes her lips. Then she shrugs) "Well, for the moment I reside at St. Mary’s Abbey. On top of a mountain in Britain, in the...cursed forest."
3. Do you have any schooling?
Genevieve (nods and pats and invisible crease of her dress) "Kind Old Bertha, who took care of me after my family perished, taught me to read and write. Not only English but also Latin. And, most important, she taught me how to prepare healing potions from plants and herbs. Perhaps that’s why the Abbess hates me so much. A peasant girl of the 13th century is dangerous if she knows more than her superiors, I think."
4. What are your worst fears or nightmare?
Genevieve (throws a shy look around her. She shivers and her voice is small) "I fear the cursed forest. This forest is responsible for what happened to my family. My father’s odd behavior, the death of my siblings. All the evil that lurks in it.
My nightmare - the Abbess, sister Clementa, who threatens me all the time with sending me to the stake. I can’t understand why she wants me out of the way."
5. Is it anything that you secretly desire?
Genevieve (blushes and wrings her hands. Then she looks me directly in the eyes. Her voice is strong now. ) "To become Andrew’s wife and grow a family. If his family agrees....If the Abbess lets me go... If God forgives me for giving up being a nun.....If I escape alive from the forest.... If....”
Shadows of the Past
Blurb
Anne's relationship with her boyfriend
Neil has disintegrated. After a two-year separation, they pack for a week
vacation in hopes of reconciling. But fate has other plans for them.
The discovery of a bejeweled cross and
ancient human bones opens a door to a new and frightening world--one where the
ghost of a medieval nun named Genevieve will not let Anne rest. This new world
threatens not only to ruin Anne and Neil's vacation but to end all hopes of
reconciliation as Anne feels compelled to help free Genevieve's soul from its
torment.
Can Anne save her relationship and help
Genevieve find her eternal rest?
A touching, compelling story of tragedy,
loss and the power of endless love and good magic.
The twists and turns in this paranormal
tale keep the reader guessing up to the end and weave themselves together into
a quest to rekindle love.
Wild
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Author bio:
Carmen Stefanescu resides in
Romania, the native country of the infamous vampire Count Dracula, but where,
for about 50 years of communist dictatorship, just speaking about God, faith,
reincarnation or paranormal phenomena could have led someone to great trouble -
the psychiatric hospital if not to prison.
Teacher of English and German in her native country and mother of two daughters, Carmen Stefanescu survived the grim years of oppression, by escaping in a parallel world, that of the books.
Teacher of English and German in her native country and mother of two daughters, Carmen Stefanescu survived the grim years of oppression, by escaping in a parallel world, that of the books.
She
has dreamed all her life to become a writer, but many of the things she wrote
during those years remained just drawer projects. The fall of the Ceausescu’s
regime in 1989, and the opening of the country to the world meant a new beginning
for her. She started publishing. Poems first, and then prose. Both in English.
Shadows of the Past,
paranormal/light romance/light mystery/light horror was released at the end of
2012 by Wild Child publishing, USA.
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