Meet Haley, Sha Warrior By Kathy Kulig
First of all, thanks so much for inviting me to your blog today to talk about my heroine Haley Moore from my new release Damned and Defiant released 8/15/12 at Ellora’s Cave. And thanks to the readers for their continued support and for visiting today.
Haley was a fun character to write. She’s from what some people would call the wrong side of the tracks. People have called her dirt road trailer park trash. Can’t get much lower than that. She also comes from tragedy which is revealed in Damned and Defiant. She’s determined to escape that label, escape her past and make a life and name for herself and gain respect. She’s defiant about it. Dante, the hero and demon is also defiant in his goals, but are his goals the right ones? Haley challenges him, makes him face himself and go to the dark places he doesn’t want to go. Haley discovers that she too, can’t hide from her dark past.
Haley claims to have psychic abilities. Some of her skills include seeing auras and horse whispering. In Texas, she worked with horses and knows them well. Dante needs a horse whisperer so he can bring his horses into his demon world.
The few friends she’s made in Sedona thinks she’s a bit quirky and don’t necessarily believe in her psychic abilities but she’s well liked, a hard worker and has a big heart.
Dante knows differently when it comes to her psychic skills. He detects that she has exceptional powers, many have yet to be developed. Haley is what his kind call a Sha Warrior—a mortal with naturally high essence of lifeforce energy. A gold mind for the demons of his world. The demons need to collect lifeforce energy in order to survive and Haley has a fountain of energy. It’s like the life-blood for vampires. Dante is torn between his feelings for her and using her source of power for his kind. Other demons want her for their own personal gain.
Haley may seem a bit flighty but she has guts. She’s a survivor and when she knows what she wants, she has a defiant will and courage to fight for it.
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Blurb: Mortal women surrender to Dante’s seductions. He is a Drone, an immortal who feeds off their lifeforce energy—the chi that keeps his kind alive. When his dimension is on the edge of destruction, Dante must seek the help of one special woman.
Haley Moore is a Sha Warrior—a mortal with excess lifeforce energy. She has always had a strong attraction to Dante and when they meet again he thinks luck is on his side because his quota of chi energy would be obtained after one scorching scene with this mortal. But the problem is that he is overwhelmingly attracted to her and once with this woman won’t be enough.
Haley tries to draw out the man buried deep within the demon. Their fierce, undeniable passion unravels his plans and threatens her life. Can Dante bear to abandon her when he leaves Earth forever? Dante will have to choose whether to return to his world or to give up his immortality and share his future with Haley.
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Bio: Kathy Kulig is the award-winning author of sexy paranormal and contemporary romances. She has published over a dozen novels and novellas and her work has appeared in eBook, print and anthology. Kathy is a science geek by day and writer of erotic fiction at night. Her interest in mythology, quantum physics and the supernatural, and also her extensive background in science, provide inexhaustible material for new projects in the paranormal realms. Besides her career in writing, she’s a cytotechnologist and has worked as a research scientist, medical technologist, dive master and stringer for a newspaper. When she’s not writing or dreaming up her next steamy story, she enjoys traveling, relaxing by the beach with a book, mountain biking, movies and dinners out. She resides in eastern Pennsylvania with her husband and lives in a 100-year-old Victorian home which has a garage built of rejected tombstones.
Damned and Defiant
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Cathy M says
Hi Kathy,
Congrats on your latest release and that gorgeous cover. I am definitely partial to sexy romances with a paranormal twist, and am looking forward to reading Haley’s story.
caity_mack at yahoo dot com
Regina Ross says
Congratulations on the release and I love the cover 🙂
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Kathy Kulig says
First of all, Lucy. Thank you so much for hosting me on your site. Awesome site, BTW.
Cathy, Cathy, Hi how are you? Thanks for joining us and thanks, I think they did a great job on the cover too. I’ve always love paranormals myself, tho I do love writing the contemporaries here are there.
Hi Regina, Thanks for stopping by. I’ve been getting lots of compliments on this cover. Wouldn’t you love to be the woman behind the hunky guy? 🙂
Julianne says
Hi Kathy, Congrats on the release of your new book. Awesome cover too.
Damned and Defiant’s hero and heroine are so original and interesting. How did you get the idea for the book?
Kathy Kulig says
Hi Julianne,
Thank you, and I think they did a great job on the cover too. 🙂 And thanks for your kind words about my H/h. I got the original idea for the series while on a trip to Sedona, Arizona. I heard a lot about the vortexes of energy that’s supposed to be there. So that sparked the idea. I also took a tour to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and our tour was a Navajo. He told lots of Native American stories. That sparked more ideas.
Kathy Kulig says
In addition to the grand prizes on this tour, I’m selecting a random name at each blog stop to win a free eBook download from my back list, excluding anthologies and my new release. I selected Cathy M. Congratulations Cathy! I’ll send you a separated email and you can tell me which book you’d like.
Thank you again Lucy for hosting me. Happy reading!
flchen1 says
Fabulous excerpt, Kathy! Thanks for the peek at this newest release!
books4me says
Congrats on another book, Kathy! How many books do you have planned for this series?