Blog Tour: THE SEVEN SEXY SUPERNATURALS by Luki Belle

 

The Sexy Seven Supernaturals

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 One:

 

1) The Photo and the Letter

 

“My dear, you have broken my heart in so many pieces that I feel like I live now without one, yet, feeling the pain of it being torn to shreds. It is that pain with which I must now live for the rest of my life. How could you betray me? When I gave my everything to you and loved you like my own flesh and blood! My soul and harmony, I found nectar in your essence and to think that you would do such a cruel deed to me makes me want to tear my flesh so that I strip myself of pain forever, the pain of watching you in bed with my very own brother! I damn you! I damn you for the rest of your life! And I curse my brother for betraying me with you! Know this now my dearest, beloved wife, I will leave you both to your damnation of cheating against me! You will never see me again until the day I will return when I die, to take what belongs to me from you! Frederick”

 

2) Strength of Feathers

 

“You also own this place?” Vanessa asked nervously while sitting down across from Eliza instead of beside her as she was asked to do by the lady.

 

Eliza smiled “Okay let’s get it out of the way once and for all! I own this entire building and everything in it, though not everyone but all the businesses. There! Can we talk plainly now?”

 

“We could unless there is more to show me about how rich you are!” Vanessa snapped and gulped down the entire champagne putting down the glass with a hint of temper.

 

“Is there something wrong my dear?” Eliza said while gently touching Vanessa’s hand.

 

Vanessa exhaled in a frustrated way “Look Lady Eliza...I...I...” the champagne was rushing to her head in her empty stomach “...I am not going to sleep with you okay! I...I...”

 

But before she could finish Eliza began laughing hysterically in a shrill voice letting her head jerk back from the amusement.

 

3) The Aunt

 

As a child Krem had heard rumors about his aunt, through gossip between his mother and her sisters. They talked about Zaylinar having been raised by a sisterhood in the northwestern desert that bordered Xenia and that his aunt was sent away because she was rebellious in nature as a child. She was returned to her family only when she had been sufficiently tamed. It was then that her father, the Head Counsel of the Republic at the time, offered his daughter to the Minister’s son Ruhr. Both fathers had quickly blessed and sealed the engagement. Growing up, Krem had become emotionally attached to stories of his mysterious aunt whom he did not see until he was an adolescent. On the day when Zaylinar came to meet the young boy, the stories became very much alive in the teenager’s mind. The lad felt his very first pangs of love and physical desire for his aunt. Feelings that magnified over time, without subduing. Yet the enigmatic woman shunned her nephew’s affections telling him that he could never be like Ruhr and that the only way she would ever have him would be if he proved himself to her.

 

 

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Topic:  Which story can you personally identify with and why?

Response: Great question! I think I somewhat identify with the young adult Elsa Cavanaugh in story 6 titled “The Picture Ghost”. The only daughter of kind farmer of humble means, living in a small close-knit rural farm community, encouraged to attend university far away from her hometown in a campus community where everything was new, strange, and difficult for her at her first semester in college. Elsa was gifted in poetry and her talent got her scholarship to the university, but the curriculum was tough for her while she had to adjust to the new social setting where she felt completely helpless from a lack of knowledge of social norms. It was not easy for her to be assertive to get help in her coursework while dealing with the dating habits of her older roommate, a junior student, Cassandra. Elsa’s grade suffered tremendously during the first semester, and she had to take up a campus job to pay for all the expenses that the scholarship did not cover. Cassandra is the opposite of Elsa, an extrovert, fast-talking, intelligent, sexually active, and kind-hearted. Elsa’s humble background and reserved nature, especially towards strange boys and men, makes her coy and prickly towards any advances from her male classmates and towards Cassandra’s encouragement to be social and friendly. The large size of freshmen classes led by intimidating professors does not help Elsa either to overcome her coyness and timidity which in turn badly affects her semester-end grades. Matthew Cavanaugh is sympathetic and encouraging towards his daughter, but he experiences trouble back home at the farm which forces him to look for ways to make ends meet. Father and daughter try to hide their troubles from each other. A glimmer of hope flickers when Cassandra suggests a way for Elsa to help save her scholarship despite her bad grades. This results in Elsa staying back during the first semester break which leads to her fate at the end of the story from the paranormal experiences that encounter her.

I too came from a humble background and lived in a close-knit household and town where my higher education came to an unfortunate and unexpected halt. With some help I was encouraged and financially supported to attend university abroad, far away from my family and in a completely different culture. Everything was hard for me in my first semester and my grades were bad! Also, like Elsa, I yearned for home and while she was a poet, I was a painter and never took advantage of the beautiful setting of my campus to paint anything because I was always frantically studying during my first semester! My first roommate was also the opposite of me and had an active social life where she tried her best to get me involved but I was far too coy and reserved, not to mention intimidated to make friends with strangers. Furthermore, I was studying all the time, struggling with all my coursework and did not really know how to get help. I too took up a campus job to help pay for expenses though I did not have a scholarship. During one of the summers when I worked on campus to save up money and to catch up on coursework for the next semester, I experienced some spooky things at night within my off-campus apartment on a couple of occasions and once when returning from campus late one evening. I never quite found an explanation for these eerie occurrences :)

 

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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