Wednesday Morning Summer Sale

When you wake up on Wednesday morning, and for the next 3 days, House of the Empath will be on sale at Amazon.com.  Drop by and have a look!

Don't forget to leave a review after you read! Happy end of summer!

PS. I'll send a reminder that day :)

Excerpt from The Paper Lantern

Enjoy!

Mary felt the steady breaths behind her before she heard them.  She hadn’t heard footsteps.  She breathed in slowly without turning around and held very still as if whatever was behind her was a predatory wild beast stalking her and would pounce on any sudden movement.  She looked down and focused on her paints.

     “What are you doing?” said the voice, a young man’s voice, smooth and curious.

     “Painting.”  She kept her voice calm and steady.  She felt him crouch behind her and she relaxed.  He wasn’t about to attack.

     “At night?” 

     “It’s the best time.”  She opened a tube of blue paint.

     “I agree.”

     “You can watch,” she said, the fear gone out of her now.

     “All right. I’d like that.” Mary felt him settle down close by.

      She turned then to look at him. He was in front of the paper lantern, his face cast in shadow.  The words her grandmother had said came back to her. Words about things and shadows, but his breath was warm on her neck.  She was not afraid.

     “You’re very pretty,” he said.

     “You’re very blunt.”  She put down her canvas then and shifted on the rocks so that she wasn’t looking at his face silhouetted by the lantern like a solar eclipse.  Away from the light, she could make out more details.  He was lean with slightly mussed sandy hair and eyes blessed with thick lashes. He was possibly a year or two older than she was. The star painting was no longer so important.  She’d give anything to paint the face of this boy but she wasn’t ready to look away from him yet.

     “Why are you here?” she asked.

     “I’ve always been here.”  His voice was soft, almost a whisper, but tense.

     “What do you mean?” she asked.  He reached out and touched a stray bit of her hair that had escaped her ponytail. She leaned back just out of his reach.  She noticed his clothing then.  His top was dirty and his pants were two sizes too big.  The word urchin came to mind, a boy from a Charles Dickens novel.

     “I mean I’ll be here whenever you come.”

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:) Jen

New Release!

What a beautiful night! Hope it's this nice wherever you are!  The mosquitos are obnoxious though.

So, in current news.... Rail Ties will be available tomorrow on Amazon.  It's a prologue to a longer work for romance.  Set during the Great Depression, a young girl leaves home in an attempt to find a job to help out her family.  Not really knowing where she's headed or what might happen, Josephine jumps a train headed north. It's on that train that she meets Christian, a handsome writer who offers his advice. So begins her adventure into independence.

If you read anything on Amazon, don't forget to leave a review. It's so important to authors.  Up next, a poem for you all to enjoy. Check back next week.