With one touch, Leila can see it all.
Leila Marx is trying to put her life back together after her fiancé is murdered. When Detective Garrick Pearson enlists her help with a difficult case, she is thankful for the distraction and the opportunity to use her talents as a touch clairvoyant. Leila and Garrick delve into the mystery behind a series of missing teenage girls and mummified corpses while discovering their own growing attraction to each other.
Conner Hoffman is an intriguing lawyer and striking half-demon who enters Leila’s life unexpectedly. Although her visions are terrifying, she is fascinated by his charm and his legacy. When it becomes evident that the murders are linked to a paranormal event, Conner introduces Leila to a world unbeknownst to ordinary society. She suddenly finds herself immersed in supernatural politics, sorcery, and danger as she becomes the killer’s next target.
Staying alive will mean relying on friends, accepting the unbelievable, and trusting in her heart again.
A first date, a lottery, treachery and deceit. Sometimes fate has other plans. Sometimes there’s more to tell.
In Furthermore: An Anthology, eighteen original stories take you on a journey through worlds here and beyond. From the depths of the earth to the embrace of the sea, your favorite series continue. Prequels, alternative views, and new scenes give readers a chance to experience more than originally told.
Including stories from Rebekah Campbell, Amber Garr, David Estes, Leigh Michael, Karen Amanda Hooper, Stephanie Judice, and Mayandree Michael. And most importantly, in honor of those who lost the battle and those who continue to fight, all proceeds from this anthology will be donated to cancer research and support.
Guest Post by David Estes
I’m not much of a short story writer. Never have been. I’ve
always preferred a good 90,000-word novel where I can fully develop my
characters and create complex plotlines with surprises revealed at just the right times. However, when my friend and fellow
author Amber Garr approached me with the chance to write a couple of short
stories for Furthermore, I jumped at
the opportunity. Why? Two HUGE reasons:
Angels of Cancer- First and foremost was the chance
to use my writing for an amazing cause. Because all profits from sale of the
book go to the American Cancer Society, we as authors can make a difference in
the fight against cancer, even if only a small one. Every little bit helps,
right?
Before I started writing my short stories, I thought about
why defeating cancer is so important and what it means to me. I personally have
been very fortunate, in that I haven’t had any friends or family members
afflicted by cancer at a young age. I never realized how lucky I was until I
met my wife, Adele. In the months preceding us meeting, Adele had had two very
close friends, who were young, in their twenties and thirties, die of cancer. I
feel like I know Chris and Volkan now, from talking to Adele. They were good
people—no, the best kind of people. People
who gave of themselves all their lives, selfless to their own detriment,
caring, loving, kind. People who deserved more than most of us to live long and
beautiful lives. And they probably would have, but for the fickle and
unflinching hand of cancer, which ended theirs early.
From the beginning of Adele and my whirlwind romance that
resulted in marriage in less than 8 months, we knew there was a hand in it that
was far greater than either of us. We truly believe that our angels, Chris and
Volkan, both of whom wanted nothing more than for Adele to find her soul mate,
brought us together at the perfect time in both of our lives. I’ve never met
them, but they’re my heroes. My angels.
We all have to do our part to beat this disease, for people
like Chris and Volkan and the many others who are chosen by a mindless force
that almost seems beyond comprehension sometimes. Buying this book costs less
than a Starbucks coffee, and your money goes to a cause that’s so important to
the world.
The Moon Dwellers- The second reason I decided to
write two short stories for this anthology, was to further develop a couple of
the characters in my YA dystopian series, The
Dwellers Saga (Book 1- The Moon
Dwellers, Book 2- The Star Dwellers,
Book 3- The Sun Dwellers). In The Moon Dwellers, an underground
dystopian world I’ve created, one of the main characters, Adele (Yes, she’s
named after my beautiful wife), meets a girl named Tawni while in a juvenile
prison called the Pen. Tawni is funny, smart, and loyal to Adele for reasons
that only become evident later on, but her backstory of how a beautiful,
nonviolent girl with a very wealthy family came to be locked up in such an
awful place was never told. My short story The
Runaway- Tawni’s story, gave me an opportunity to tell her story and what
befell her when leaving home for the very first time.
My second short story, The
Life Lottery- A Tale from Year Zero, takes the reader back five hundred
years, to Year Zero, when by a strange twist of fate, the world was changed
forever, forced underground into the caverns that later became the homes of the
sun, moon and star dwellers. The only problem: the caverns couldn’t fit
everyone. The story tells of a young girl, Anna, as she prepares herself and
goes through with the Lottery, a random draw to decide who would be allowed to
go underground and be saved from the apocalyptic event that was hurtling
through space toward earth. This was an important piece of backstory that I
just had to write, and Furthermore
gave me the chance, for which I’m eternally grateful.
I truly hope you enjoy my short stories and all the other
short stories in Furthermore, but
even if you don’t have time to read the book, buy it anyway, because your money
will help save people like Chris and Volkan, angels of cancer.
Ms.Amber Garr has kindly agreed to giveaway an e-copy of her book. Enter in the Rafllecopter below for your chance to choose either Touching Evil or Furthermore.
Thank you so much for being a part of the tour!
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