The Sexy Seven Supernaturals - Paranormal and Dark Short Stories for Adults by Luki Belle (VNBtM) GFP ADULT title

 

It is my pleasure to share a guest post by author Luki Belle, who explains...

What do you think is the strongest attraction about the genre(s) you like to write in?

LB:  I truly love this question! I am currently focusing on paranormal, dark, fantasy and erotic genres.

The dark and the paranormal intrigue me because as a child I was super scared of the dark, dark rooms, dark places, the night and along with that, terrified of ghosts and anything that made noise without a cause :)

As I grew older, I became fascinated by psychology and the things that the mind can do subconsciously and consciously to stir the unconscious essence in a person. I speak to this fascination in the author bio of this book.

I also believe in the ability of the mind to manifest things if the desire or distress is powerful enough and endures long enough. A key part of this has to do with the power of observation or focusing on something in day-to-day life which could be a physical thing, an emotional thing, or a mental thought.

In my paranormal themed stories, I explore the play between paranormal entities and their interaction with mortal humans, the play of the other worldly with the mind of the worldly.

When it comes to the dark and the erotica themes, I like to explore the forbidden and the unknown through my characters. The gothic nature of my stories is enticing to me because I would love to read my stories on gray rainy days or by the fireside on a cold winter day.

The coziness of sensuality, the daringness of sexuality combined with the bleak nature of a plot would make a good reading companion in a perfectly comfortable home setting with a glass of fine wine and some delicious chocolates! :) I like making my stories fit this profile for such a reader.

The genre of fantasy and the paranormal gives me the opportunity to create my own rules in the world I set up around my characters. However, this can sometimes become challenging because I must be very detail oriented to set up the rules, under all circumstances of interaction, with paranormal or supernatural entities and the mortal beings in my stories. These rules must be adhered to throughout the story for it to be compelling to my reader. I like this challenge, it is that of an architect, my own virtual world, like a dollhouse where imagination has no bounds, only the limits that I create :)

 

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The Sexy Seven Supernaturals

ADULT title

by

Luki Belle

 

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GENRE:   Fiction - Short Stories, Fantasy, Paranormal, Erotica

 

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BLURB:

 

Seven haunting tales of women, young female adults, and an adolescent girl whose lives change irreversibly because of entities who come into the lives of these female protagonists, mysteriously, invited by yearnings and distresses that exist in these women and girls -

1) The Photo and the Letter: Larissa, a heartbroken young woman, finds a captivating photo of an elderly friend and becomes compelled to discover more about the bitterly written letter that was addressed to the elderly woman, who had a fascinating past.

2) Strength of Feathers: Vanessa, an orphan, who struggled her entire life to survive and achieve professional success, decides one night to overcome her fear of heights and her reluctance to be spontaneous when she meets an enigmatic, wealthy woman who has ulterior motives.

3) The Aunt: Anika, a teenage girl, niece of a notable and authoritative commander of her nation’s army, finds herself in a precarious situation when at a bloody crossroads of her nation’s history, she falls for a young, ambitious, and ruthless military man from a long-rival nation, who is about to take over rulership of Anika’s nation and her uncle’s army.

4) Ravenous: Sabrina, a young adult, daughter of a coalminer, is forced to leave her hometown with her father and siblings. Her family is taken in by a kind doctor who has mixed intentions for helping the homeless father and his three children.

5) The Bride’s Matchmaker: Mylakena, a young rural woman, comes to live in a dynamic, metropolitan city with her uncle, when she falls for two handsome, rich, and athletic young city men and realizes that her innocent infatuation has severe consequences.

6) The Picture Ghost: Elsa, a young adult daughter of a farmer, starts attending college far away from her hometown. Her poor grades lead her to a professor whose art collection draws Elsa uncomfortably close to an enigmatic stranger from the past.

7) The Old Willow Tree: Helen, a highly successful businesswoman, retires in a foreign country where, while searching for a permanent home with a garden, she falls in love with a stunning willow tree on a property that she desperately wants to buy.

 

 

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EXCERPT

 6) The Picture Ghost

 

When Eugene came into his teenage years, the merchant used the handsome lad’s innocent charms to attract single, female guests at social events. The women were made to believe by Eugene that his benefactor, the rich merchant, was a lonely, generous, and warmhearted man. Thus, the adolescent enabled several affairs under such pretenses, for the merchant. The man, never having had the talent for pursuing women found in Eugene an indebted being who was willing to do anything for the person who gave the boy education and luxuries. Their relationship became so close that the merchant practically bought Eugene from his father, telling the fisherman that his son no longer wished to maintain ties with the village. To this Eugene did not raise much objection. However, he may have been coerced to break all ties with his biological father.

 

7) The Old Willow Tree

 

The house belonged to an architect who had built many of the prominent business structures in the country, including a famous public greenhouse in their city that showcased exotic flowers and endangered trees. The architect had designed his house and lived in it with his two sisters and wife. The latter died at childbirth along with her baby. Following the tragic event, the architect put his house up for sale. And then the facts became stories. Helen could tell that the friend was adding his own imagination and fabrications to what seemed to have happened next. However, one thing was clear. At a certain point in time, the architect had given up or had decided not to sell the house. The friend was certain it had something to do with the property. Prospective buyers had rumored about feeling uncomfortable on the premises and some had even heard a woman’s voice speaking to them and others had heard a baby crying.

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Luki Belle works in the media industry. Storytelling was a fixture from childhood when she would listen to stories told by her grandparents, parents, sisters, and cousins, who would read to her from diverse cultural fiction books. Scary and ghost stories in particular, captured Luki as a child and led to her fascination with the concept of feeling haunted or being haunted by something or someone, whether desirably or whether uninvited. In the Sexy Seven Supernaturals, Luki explores the amalgamation between the psychological and the paranormal, enabled by the human mind through its power to imagine, visualize, and yearn. The female characters in this book each have strong or subtle conscious desires created or triggered by subconscious or unconscious distresses, leading each of them to unexpected fates.

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