Mariposa
Children
of Mariposa
Book
One
Kim
Wells
Genre: Urban
Fantasy/Magic Realism
Publisher:
Daydreams Dandelions Publications
Date of
Publication: December 24, 2014
ASIN: B00O9DCRDC
Number of pages:
293 pages
Word Count: 106,993
Cover Artist:
Lawrence Mann
Book Description:
What if the best
night of your life was also your last?
On the eve of a
much-anticipated proposal, Meg is happier than she could have ever imagined.
The future she sees for herself on that magical night is bright, one that’s
full of love and laughter and dreams finally realized.
That is, until one
random act of violence changes everything…
Consumed by fate
and forces she can’t comprehend, Meg finds herself at the center of a spectral
conflict that transcends life and death.
Her very soul is
up for grabs in this war, and what’s worse… she’s not the only one.
Now, she’s
fighting not just for the love she lost, but the daughter she would have called
her own. She must fight the battle of her life, for the sake of her friends and
family, and find out for herself if love can indeed be stronger than death.
Intertwined
with true-ghost stories, some heart-warming, some heart-breaking, this
love-note to San Antonio combines history, myth, and vivid description.
This
is the full story of Meg & Amelinda's quest-journey, what author Laura
Metzger calls "A beautifully written story with compelling characters that
reach between the universe of the living and the dead to embrace their mutual
destiny" and author Elena E. Giorgi calls "A beautiful tale of love
and redemption."
Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/u8wWa70P7ck
Excerpt:
Meg:
Vanilla and Lavender
On the
day I died, I was wearing a great outfit. This is important to know because it
turns out that your default look for eternity as a ghost is what you’re wearing
when you die. I mean, seriously. Who knew? If I’d have known that, I wouldn’t
have risked any days in mediocre clothes. In that respect, I was lucky I was on
a date when I was killed, but of course, if I hadn’t been on a date, on that
date, maybe things would have turned out differently.
Not
everyone gets to be a ghost. In fact, some people disappear immediately, and I
don’t know what happens. But they just wink right out of existence, only out of
their bodies for a few seconds. Maybe it has something to do with intent, or
their last actions, or their own belief systems. I hope the good people go
somewhere good, no matter what they did in the last moments of life, that there
is a way for them to make up for those Big Mistakes.
Some
people, people who haven’t Figured Things Out, people like me, linger for a
while. We hang around those we love and sometimes try to influence their
choices, trying to keep loved ones from making Big Mistakes.
My
grandmother had been my ghost–I was not surprised when it came right down to
it. Back when I was alive, I used to smell her perfume in the apartment we
shared, vanilla and lavender. I could never figure out what actual perfume
brand she wore to get that scent, and believe me, I tried. I loved it and
wanted that for my signature perfume. I haunted the local drugstores,
especially the old ones, and vintage stores, looking for an old- fashioned
perfume that featured those fragrance notes, but never found anything that
smelled even remotely like hers.
I guess
it was just her individual magic that combined the scents that way. It seemed
to linger in our apartment, long after she had been gone. Especially at certain
important moments. I wouldn’t know those moments were important ‘til later, but
looking back, it’s obvious.
I’m
getting ahead of myself, moving way too fast for normal people. First, you
probably want to know more about me, right? You can’t just start in the middle
of the story; you have to work up to these big deals. I made it 23 years on the
planet before checking out. I guess you’d say I was pretty, although I was
never very stylish or together. I thought that would come with maturity, but I
never got to find that out. When I died, I had shoulder length wavy copper
colored hair, cut in a bob that was always tickling my chin and sometimes made
me want to cut it all off. I certainly never had the patience to grow it all
out. It was “in between” hair, lack of decision hair. My eyes were basic gray,
nothing exciting, although I desperately wanted the “limpid blue” or “decisive
green” eyes of a romance heroine. A light plague of freckles scattered across
the bridge of my nose showed my Irish- Scottish mutt background, and I had fair
redhead’s skin that burned, rather than tanned, which kept me indoors most of
the time or slathered in sunscreen. 5’8’, skinny without being too skinny. I
did have my family’s big butt, which we will not discuss.
Why I
have to go through eternity with that butt is beyond me. I tended to prefer
jeans and a comfortable cotton shirt, paired with flat old- fashioned Converse
tennis shoes as my daily outfit, but I could clean up pretty nice when I had
to.
About
the Author:
Kim wrote her
first critically acclaimed (if you call her fourth grade teacher a critic, and
she does) short story when she was 9 years old. It was about Christmas in a
Cave, and it featured such topical, ground-breaking subjects as homelessness
& cave dwelling. She's been writing ever since. The state of publication depends on who you
ask.
She has a Ph.D. in
Literature, with specialties in American Lit, Women Writers, Feminism,
Sci-Fi/Fantasy & Film Studies but please don't hold any of that against
her. She teaches academic writing and how to read literature at a university in
her hometown and tries to convince college students that it really is cool to
like poetry.
She lives in the
South, has twin children (one girl, one boy) and a husband who is the model for
all her best romantic heroes. She also has two cats-- one black and sassy, one
stripey and fat, and also kinda sassy.
Website: http://www.kimwells.net/
Find her on
Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/kimwellswrites
Twitter here: https://twitter.com/dandeliondreams
Pinterest here: http://www.pinterest.com/daydreamsdandel/
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This books sounds interesting - I like stories that push the boundaries of our known world and provide a view of other worlds including the one that may or may not exist after we cease to be alive.
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