Cerridwen Press Releases
TOUCH OF DANGER
Carol A. Strickland's first book, Touch of Danger, a fantasy adventure romance, has just been released in ebook form from Cerridwen Press.
When ultra-superhero Londo (Valiant) Rand breaks through her door to save Lina O’Kelly from a burning hotel, she knows that’s merely the beginning of her crisis. Londo’s foes have temporarily blasted away his powers, leaving the two of them to outrun a mercenary army across an otherwise deserted South Pacific island. If they’re lucky they can reach safety to await rescue, or Londo’s powers will return and he can fly them away.
Londo doesn’t want those powers to return, not yet. This is the first time in his life he’s been able to touch someone without the potential of accidentally tearing them to shreds. Lina is definitely someone he wants to touch -- and more. He’s eager to learn what it feels like to be fully human.
But stubborn telepath/psychic Lina’s dysfunctional childhood has left her with an acute phobia for touch. She’s also sworn to help anyone who requests aid -- even if it’s the world’s greatest superhero who asks for what she’s unable to give.
Will they discover that what they’ve both longed for was not a touch of skin, but that of two hearts meeting? If they should fall deeply in love, how will they cope when Londo’s powers return and he’s too strong to hold Lina in his arms?
The book is priced at $6.99 and comes in a variety of e-reader-friendly formats.
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Bio: Carol A. Strickland
Although born in a small town in Illinois noted for its Nineteenth Century demonic possession cases, Carol A. Strickland claims that all those voices inside her head are a result of having stories to tell and books to write. Even so, her strange devotion to and study of Wonder Woman would seem to indicate an abby-normal brain.
It was the sudden realization that her first novel was a romance and not just f/sf that prompted her to join Romance Writers of America. Their various workshops and mentoring programs have helped her get this far. She also keeps the requisite number of cats that Marion Zimmer Bradley declared a fantasy author needed to write well.
A one-time comics letterhack and now an outspoken member of various comics message boards, Carol has found herself the basis for two comic book villains (at times her opinions have not been taken well by the books’ creators) (both villains were soundly thrashed) (and both, for some perverse reason, were male), had one superhero wear her costume design... and she knows that Brad Pitt is eight years and two days younger than she. Sigh.
She wants to write like her favorite authors: to be able to portray the honest emotion and surprises that you find in Julia Quinn; to be bold and funny as Jenny Crusie; to find the multi-layered imagination and heart that Lois McMaster Bujold uses; and to enjoy the sales success of Janet Evanovich.
Carol has also become an award-winning painter from her home in North Carolina. She exercises this skill in her secondary hours (both of them) along with writing as she waits for the lottery to free her 9-to-5 time to more fulfilling pursuits.
Email:
CarolAStrickland (at) Yahoo.com