Monday Mentions: April 10, 2017
For this week’s Monday Mentions we are highlighting two paranormal adventures for our readers.
Our first feature, released today at NineStar Press, is Jere’ M. Fishback’s Tyler Buckspan. This young adult novel finds fifteen-year-old Tyler Buckspan in a 1960’s community of “mediums”. A loner who has hidden his sexuality, he finds himself unable to deny his urges when his ex-con, half-brother Devin comes to town. Will the both of them be able to trust their inherited psychic twinges?
Last, but not least, is Casper Graham’s Eternity set to release at JMS Books on Saturday, April 15th. In this interracial paranormal tale Dylan has just discovered he’s a witch and finding it difficult to balance his “normal” life with that of investigating supernatural deaths. In walk Detective Aurelius, a three thousand year old vampire who can’t understand his immediate attraction to Dylan. Will investigating multiple murders test their relationship to the point of a burn out or help them realize eternity?
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Make it a great week!
About Tyler Buckspan
Fifteen-year-old Tyler Buckspan lives with his mom and grandmother in 1960s Cassadaga, a Florida community where spiritual “mediums” ply their trade. The mediums—Tyler’s grandmother among them—read palms and tarot cards, conduct séances and speak with the dead.
Tyler’s a loner, a bookish boy with few interests, until his half-brother Devin, nineteen and a convicted arsonist, comes to live in Tyler’s home. For years, Tyler has ignored his attraction to other boys. But with Devin in the house, Tyler can’t deny his urges any longer. He falls hopelessly in love with his miscreant half-brother, and with the sport of basketball, once Devin teaches Tyler the finer points of the game.
In a time when love between men was forbidden, even criminalized, can Tyler find the love he needs from another boy? And is Devin a person to be trusted? Is he truly clairvoyant, or simply a con artist playing Tyler and others for fools? What does Devin really know about a local murder? And can Tyler trust his own psychic twinges?
About Eternity
Dylan Johnson has recently discovered he’s a witch, a true necromancer, to be exact. But frankly, he doesn’t know how to juggle being a new kindergarten teacher and practicing his long-dormant magic. To complicate things, he’s trying to help solve six mysterious, seemingly unrelated, supernatural deaths. Aurelius Chatzis is one of the detectives in charge of the Supernatural Crimes Division. As a vampire almost three thousand years old, he can’t understand his immediate attraction to Dylan. Their close proximity during the initial stage of the investigation, in addition to his partner’s nosy interference, eventually leads to a memorable first date. Unfortunately, the mounting danger of the multiple murders will test the strength of Dylan and Aurelius’s new relationship. Will it survive and last for an eternity? Or will it crash and burn from the pressure of it all?
