Athena's Secrets The Delphi Bloodline Book 1 by Donna Del Oro Genre: Crime Drama, Romantic Suspense
AUTHOR INTERVIEW
What is your favorite book that you have
written and why?
I’d have to say, ATHENA’S SECRETS, the first
book in my new Delphi Bloodline series. My cousin, a practicing
psychic/clairvoyant, gave me the idea and I spent a couple of years researching
parapsychology, as psychic phenomena is often called. I took a workshop given
by a Czech physicist who used to work for the Moscow Institute for Psychic
Research. I began the workshop as a skeptic, but emerged a believer, convinced
that highly intuitive people can develop the ability to “see” what others
cannot. It’s a human ability, I believe, not unlike music, artistic or
mathematical abilities. Some are born to play piano like a Mozart or Chopin;
others can barely plunk out Heart and Soul. So ATHENA’S SECRETS became a
storyline that I could use to explore this controversial topic.
For aspiring writers what is your advice?
Writing fiction can be a tedious,
time-consuming process unless you are highly motivated to tell a certain story
peopled with characters that inspire you.
Make sure you really want to tell that story.
Going back in time which famous author
would you have been and why?
Edna Ferber was an early 20th
Century female author I admired greatly. She told stories about rich and poor
Americans in varied settings and told them as honestly as she could,
considering the time period in which she wrote.
Silence or noise of some sort while you
write?
I usually write with music playing softly in
the background.
Do you read your reviews?
I always read my reviews because I feel
there might be something I could learn from their comments that I might be able
to use to improve my own storytelling abilities.
Athena's
Secrets
The
Delphi Bloodline Book 1
by
Donna Del Oro
Genre:
Crime Drama, Romantic Suspense
Athena
Butler, the twenty-year-old descendant of an ancient bloodline of
psychics, yearns to live a normal life. She wants a career in art, a
boyfriend, independence. Her clairvoyance has taught her, however,
that people can be false and dangerous. Although warned to keep her
psychic gifts a secret, she’s recruited by law enforcement to help
search for a serial killer and to uncover a terrorist cell that
threatens her own diplomat father.
She
bonds with an intriguing, handsome man, Kas Skoros, who knows her
secret and accepts it. Of the same bloodline, his own mother is
precognitive and predicts they are meant to be together…someday.
Kas realizes that life is too uncertain, but he can’t resist his
growing passion for the strange young woman.
Still,
they face obstacles beyond their control. Can Athena and Kas overcome
these obstacles? More importantly, can Athena stay alive long enough
to fulfill her dream of a normal life?
Kas
Skoros, his marriage to Alex’s former fiancée now annulled and no
longer intimidated by Athena’s psychic gifts, begs her to move to
San Francisco and manage an art gallery that his family’s company
owns. However, burned once, Athena holds him at arm’s
length.
Athena
is enticed to consult in another serial killer case. As time passes
and secrets are leaked, others—including the killer’s
brother—find out that Athena is the one who’s helping the police.
Meanwhile, a strange young woman on a motorcycle appears to be
stalking her. Warning bells go off as Athena realizes the woman is
not who she seems to be.
After
Detective Ochoa’s cousin, Detective Inspector Villalobos, persuades
Athena to help him with this baffling case, she realizes a truth that
horrifies her and threatens both her and Kas. While at a crowded
Christmas festival in the Sierra foothill town of Grass Valley, they
encounter a man who attempts to kidnap Kas’s nephew. It was
Athena’s lapse of attention which nearly causes this tragedy and
threatens to destroy her relationship with Kas. Only their seeking of
justice can right this wrong, and they risk their lives to do so.
Donna
Del Oro's dream since childhood (when she used to create her own
comic books and share them with her friends) has been to write
fiction. Escaping the humdrum of ordinary life always seemed to her
an ideal form of self-entertainment. Better than TV and even better
than some books! As soon as she retired from high school teaching
(which was a suspenseful adventure in itself), Donna turned to
fiction writing. Becoming a member of the RWA and Sisters in Crime
has helped her to learn the craft and focus on what she needed to do
to get published.
Besides
writing Chica Lit, she writes romantic suspense and thrillers. THE
DELPHI BLOODLINE is a hybrid thriller about the present-day
descendants of an ancient bloodline of women with extraordinary
psychic powers and how they must fight against enslavement by a
ruthless high-tech tycoon.
I love how the covers were done by just changing the color.
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