What do you get when you mix vampires, yogis and healers?
Enlightened!
Loti Dupree’s meager healing abilities have been more a curse
than a blessing. What’s the point if she
can’t even save her husband from cancer?
Harboring a painful secret, Loti flees the life they had in a small
Appalachian town for the ashram, the spiritual retreat where she trained to be
a yogini. But she finds herself running
from more than grief when an ominous nightmare sets her on a dangerous path of
self-discovery that challenges everything she believes, and threatens her life.
While dodging psychic attacks from an unknown assailant,
Loti races to understand who and what she is before her enemy can catch up with
her. To make matters worse, events throw her into the arms of a handsome but
frustrating vampire. Love and light are
waiting for her—if she can only figure out how to stay alive.
Excerpt:
You can’t escape,
Loti.
She snapped her head up, spluttered and spit as the water
filled her nose and mouth. She heard that voice somewhere before, but she
couldn’t remember where. “No,” she whimpered.
You are only fooling
yourself if you think you can run away.
She squeezed her eyes shut while thinking, this is not real, this is not real.
Oh, but it is, sweet
Loti, you are what you are and cannot fight it.
Loti trembled as something thick and hot and paralyzing
slithered through the small shower space, her teeth chattering.
This is who you are
–you are
“No,” she screamed so hard and so loud her throat seized
up, and she dissolved into coughing spasms. The living heat squirmed its way
through her chest, up her throat, filling her nose. She clawed at her throat
and face. Dizzy, so dizzy. Don’t faint,
don’t faint. She slipped and fell backwards into the tub. She had one more
moment to think, don’t hit your head,
and then all was black.
My Review:
I must say that Enlightened was refreshing. It is a good combination of paranormal, love, mystery and intrigue. I liked how the story had multiple character points of view.Walking along with Loti as she faces her husbands death and finding comfort in a vampire
was an intense journey.
Melissa wrote the story beautifully. Loti going on her vision quest and discovering she is a walking myth was an eye opener.
Melissa's attention to detail made the story pop and that much more enjoyable. I cant wait to see what happens in the next install of the Love and Light Series.
About Melissa:
Melissa Lummis considers herself a truth seeker, a peaceful
warrior, a paranormal and fantasy writer, an avid reader, a thru-hiker GAàME
’98, a wife, a mother, and a free thinker.
She believes the universe conspires to help an adventurer. And if we live our lives as if it is a daring
adventure (and it is!), then everything we need will find its way to us.
The author lives in rural Virginia with her husband, two children, an Alaskan Malamute and a myriad of forest creatures. The nature of her mind dictates that she write to stay sane. Otherwise, her fertile imagination takes off on tangents of its own accord, creating scenarios and worlds that confuse the space-time continuum. Namaste, dear friends.
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Thank you so much for the review, Crystal! Namaste.
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