Today's Guest is Patricia Guthrie.
Paranormal Romantic
Suspense novel for review
Legacy of Danger
By Patricia A. Guthrie
Publisher: LSP Digital
LLC.
Published October 2016
ISBN-13 978-1537643557
ISBN-10 153764355X
Genre: Paranormal,
Romantic Suspense, Thriller
Formats AVailable for
Review: Print, (only available to qualified reviewers/bloggers in the U.S.)
Kindle, pdf, mobi
"Do not speak badly
of the devil, because you cannot know to whom you will belong."
If you’d just
inherited a castle in Romania, wouldn’t you expect to visit? So does the young
and beautiful Elena Dkany, last member of an ancient, noble Romanian family.
But, somebody doesn’t want her to reach her destination, and of the two people
who can keep her safe, one is the ghost of her deceased husband, and the other
the very live presence of the one man she wants to avoid at all costs.
As they make
their way into the mountainous regions of the Carpathian Mountains, deadly
accidents, explosions and murder follow them wherever they go. Someone seems to
know their every move.
An abandoned
castle, a damsel in distress, international hitmen, ghosts, a little boy in a
dream a priceless, silver cross and an
ex-boyfriend. What do they all have in common with Elena Dakany? And, why does
someone want her dead?
And so lies
the brief blub of Legacy of Danger. Paty, I’d like to give you and your reading
audience a treat and let you meet the heroine of the story, Elena Dkany. I hope you can
get some insight as to what makes her tick, without giving away the story.
Elena sat with me this morning and gave me facts she could release, but
unfortunately wouldn’t give out everything. A little secret—I wrote a “tell all”
book. She’s non-too-pleased. It's called LEGACY OF DANGER
Elena says hi
to everyone and has settled down and is ready to answer my traditional
interviewer to interviewee
questions. We’re sitting outside the Dkany Castle cottage
enjoying the Dkany Rivers and the Carpathians in the background. She told me
she’s willing to answer many questions, but none that will “give away” her
story. So, I promised.
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| Carpathian Mountains, Romania |
Elena is
twenty-seven years old. If you were here
looking at her, she has long black hair, white skin and eyes that sometimes shine
blue and at other times, you could swear they were violet. Does Elena act
twenty-seven? Sometimes yes, sometimes no, just like the rest of us. Sometimes
she acts like she had the wisdom of the ages banged into her head, and she’s
mentally one-hundred. At other times, she can throw temper tantrums that make her
seem more like a teen-ager. I have to say, she could be me.
Did she have
a happy childhood? I’d say—as would Elena, yes. A very happy childhood. She
lost her parents at an early age. Her mother died of pneumonia and her father
died, shortly thereafter of a broken heart. Elena was brought up by her
grandmother, Magda Dkany in Evanston, Illinois. The family is highly Romanian
Orthodox; it’s patriarchal, turned matriarchal family structure. Despite the
age differences Magda and Elena adored each other. When Magda was killed by a
hit-and-run driver, Elena was devastated, and when her grandmother’s ghost
appears at her own funeral, Elena couldn’t
believe her eyes or, for that matter, any of her senses. (first chapter)
Her
relationships have been,
for the most part, pretty happy. The Dkany family has strong ties to the
Brancusi family (the families had close ties since the 1300’s—pretty unusual
for these days) Marina Brancusi is Elena’s best friend and Marina’s brother
Alex was a childhood friend turned sweetheart, then estranged, but Elena said I
couldn’t tell you why. The rest of Elena’s relationships have been happy and
successful with many college friends and acquaintances turned friends along the
way. Her past relationship that weren’t so successful was Alex Brancusi, but
that shall wait for another day. She had a close relationship with her brother
Frederick Dkany, until he died from a heroin overdose, there’s the family
solicitor Gregory Balough and Sandor Inn keeper Stephan Baklanov and his
grandson Mikhail. Then there’s Elena’s deceased husband, Janek Ivanov. As you
will see, some relationships never die. They just seem to pop up at the nick of
time.
What does
Elena care about? Elena cares about her grandmother’s death..
Ah, you say, you thought she was killed by a hit and run driver? Yes, she was. It’s just, Elena doesn’t think
it was an accident. She thinks it was done on purpose. Elena wants to uncover
the truth. She also cares about getting
to her family’s castle in Dkany, Romania in the heart of Transylvania and possibly
the reason so many of her family has died. Her grandmother was supposed to have taken her
there, just before she was killed. Now, Elena wants to go and see if she can fulfill
her grandmother’s dream—turning the castle into a school. Such a simple goal
for such a complicated plot.
In fact, this
dream has become somewhat of an obsession, until Magda’s ghost tells her to find her
son. Son? Elena’s son was killed in a
home invasion in Bucharest when he wasn’t even a year old. Elena lost her
husband, Jan at the same time. The obsession? Go to Romania, Investigate
the castle. Investigate her son and Jan’s death. And, keep herself alive.
This obsession
has now turned into Elena’s biggest fear. She’s attacked by an international hit man and
more follow. Now, her ex-boyfriend Alexander escorts her to Romania. Is her
biggest fear an attack from some outside source or from him? If he only knew
the extent of her fear and what she doesn’t want him to know.
Alex was the
best thing that ever happened to Elena. This was high school love—puppy love or a
crush? Or, the real thing? After nine-years, Elena is still not over him.
It appears he’s not over her either.
But there’s a
secret that Elena’s not willing to share with Alex or anybody. And, like
Elena, Alex is tenacious. When he decides to find something out, he sticks
to and doesn’t let go. Elena is equally tenacious. She’s also inquisitive and
when cornered she’ll walk out of a conversation or a situation. That can be
annoying, it can also be deadly.
For review
copies contact:
Patricia A.
Guthrie
Email:
Patguth@aol.cm
Blogspot: www.paguthrie.blogspot.com
Twitter:
Patricia A. Guthrie@paguthrie1
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