Damned and Defiant
Book 3 of
Demon in Exile
Kathy Kulig
Genre: Paranormal Erotic Romance
Publisher: Ellora’s Cave Publishing
ISBN: 9781419940804
Word Count: Approximately 70,000 words
Purchase Links: http://www.jasminejade.com/p-10267-damned-and-defiant.aspx
Book
Description:
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.
1. How did the story line for Damned and Defiant come into
being?
Dante started out as the bad guy in Book one, Desert of the
Damned and
a reader emailed me asking if he would find love in the end.
I hadn’t
intended on him becoming the hero in the series but that
email gave me
an idea for an interesting twist to the story arc. He wasn’t
the truly
evil one, Gwyllain, the demoness was. Dante showed some
signs of being
redeemable. He was part human and did have a few ‘good’
moments in the
book.
2. What is your favorite thing about the book?
Both Haley
the heroine and Dante the hero make difficult decisions in the story.
And they
both change a great deal. I like how they handle an
impossible situation with courage.
3. Tell us your thoughts about how sexy lust demons can be.
I’ve read about psychic vampires in Jonathan Maberry’s Cryptopedia
book and decided to create a race of immortal demons who need to
assimilate lifeforce energy in order to survive. This energy is also
necessary to maintain the existence of their artificial micro-world
called Anartia. Anartia is a prison world that looks like paradise.
4. Do you have a playlist?
I have a long playlist on my
iPod/iTunes. I like a wide variety from rock, to industrial, electronic, to
New Age.
Lately I like listening to Clubbed to Death by Furious
Angels.
Something with an intense, electronic beat. Or sometimes I
listen to
instrumental New Age stuff like, Far Away Trains Passing By
by Ulrich Schnauss. It’s sort of white noise to keep me focused.
5. Zumba or yoga?
Yoga.
I don’t have the coordination for
Zumba. LOL
6. Thai vs. Cheeseburgers?
Thai
7. What three things would you want on hand if you actually
encountered a demon-lusty or not?
A nebula stone and to know
how to
use its powers. A wise Shaman or Sha Warrior who knows how
to block the energy drain from a demon. Or a very fast car or motorcycle for escape.
8. What are some of your favorite naughty authors?
Sooo
many. Joey Hill, Lynn LaFleur, Maya Banks, Jaid Black, Laurann Dohner.
Just to name a few.
9. What was the toughest scene you ever had to write?
A
death scene in Wild Jade. I cried when I wrote it. It still makes me teary
eyed when I read it. But there is a happy ending.
10. What other writing projects are you working on?
Book 2
in my TropiX series. Spring Break is Book 1. It’s an erotic
contemporary.
Also an erotic suspense and an erotic paranormal. Keeping
busy.
Thank you for being on the blog today!
Dante and Haley are enigmatic characters. They have known each other before this book, but finally realize their passion. You get to see the trust begin with them and blister into a hot relationship that begins to smolder. Very nice! Smoking hot sex scenes and a forever love. Because they knew each other before, this book is about the coming together aspect, but I didn't feel lost.
Great read!
4/5
Dante and Haley are enigmatic characters. They have known each other before this book, but finally realize their passion. You get to see the trust begin with them and blister into a hot relationship that begins to smolder. Very nice! Smoking hot sex scenes and a forever love. Because they knew each other before, this book is about the coming together aspect, but I didn't feel lost.
Great read!
4/5
About the Author:
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.
Visit her at
Tour Wide Giveaway info
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Thanks so much for having me as a guest, Erzabet. What a gorgeous site. :)
ReplyDeleteA very lovely site, and a great interview, Erzabet and Kathy! Very cool that the hero in this story was one that didn't start out heroically ;) I always find those transformations very intriguing! Can't wait to catch up with these books, Kathy!
ReplyDeleteHey Fedora,
ReplyDeleteHe was an interesting and challenging character to write. I do love the redeeming characters. :)