Who
wouldn’t want to find out they are the direct descendant of a Greek god?
If you love the paranormal and fantasy
genre, as I suspect you do, you probably already have an incredible
imagination! It’s like Harry Potter finding out he’s the offspring of wizards,
or Brianna Randall Fraser MacKenzie discovering she could fall into another
time dimension, and meet her ancestors in the 1700s, face to face.
I have thought about this a lot! I have
one side of my family that were quite the prominent explorers. We can trace
that clan back to the 1500’s and there are several notable characters including:
A man that founded part of Massachusetts, one that invented a component of the
Singer sewing machine, a land baron, and waaaay back we have the bastard son of
Jane Seymour’s brother, in King Henry VIII’s day. I have spent COUNTLESS hours
thinking about my ancestors and what they were like, what they lived through
and what they’d think of us today! Personally, I think all of our ancestors
would be fairly disgusted with the lot of us, but I digress. I’m Swedish
primarily, then English and Irish. At the times my relatives lived in these
countries, amazing events in history were happening. It’s one of the reasons I
love the gifted writer, Diana Gabaldon, because she wrote history like it
happened, not the romantic idea, clean version of it.
When I started thinking of the Heaven
& Earth series, I loved the idea of the Greek gods having modern-day
descendants who didn’t believe in them. After all, history does have a way of
inflating one’s importance, and embellishing small things into grandiose
adventures and achievements. Most people live/lived really basic lives, and
even people of note were, in fact, regular people. They stressed about their
children, their communities, how to pay their bills and how to feed their
families, and they did so in filthy conditions without real medical
contributions, and they had to go out and kill their food before they ate it.
The idea of those people coming into contact with our heavily blessed lives,
full of vaccines, ease and indoor plumbing, would be like going to another
planet full of aliens and trying to understand their concept of life.
So, I’m posing some questions for you today…
1) Where are your ancestors from?
2) What do you think they would think about YOUR life?
3) If you could go back in time and live in their life for one day, would you do it?
4) If someone either mythical or real came to you and said you were their direct descendant, who would you want it to be and why?
I’d like to thank you so much for joining me today! What a true honor! Have a fantastic rest of your day!
The Warrior’s Progeny
The Heaven and Earth Series
Book Two
Jeny Heckman
Genre: Paranormal/Fantasy Romance
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Date of Publication: 07/27/2020
ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-5092-3219-2
ISBN (Digital): 978-1-5092-3220-8
ASIN: B089PZQJ34
Number of pages: 424
Word Count: 102,620
Cover Artist: Debbie Taylor
Tagline: If love dies, can it be reborn…only stronger?
Book Description:
Colton Stone is a newly traded tight end whose reputation is as battered as his football helmet. When he receives a vacation invitation from his new teammates, he accepts. There he collides with Dr. Lillian Morgan, a pediatric cardiovascular surgeon, and doesn't know what to think.
A widow with two children, Lilly is looking forward to her friends' wedding. When she meets Colton Stone, his arrogant attitude only makes her long for the love she took for granted. Lilly struggles between letting go of her perfect past for an uncertain future.
Strange events occur, out of the realm of normal consciousness. When black energy touches their world Colt and Lilly become the pawns of the immortal Greek gods. Is the love developing between them natural, or part of a larger prophecy?
Book Trailer: https://youtu.be/zy5nbMGQoCg
EXCERPT
1: (244 words)
Colt’s body
temperature heated until his helmet, now that of a Trojan, melted and became
part of his skull. Painful, thick, fire plumes ignited from the sides of his
head and curved toward the sky, until they solidified in a solid line down the
middle of the helmet. Black snake-like smoke wafted up from the earth and
encircled his ankles and wrists, locking him into place.
The smoke turned
into bindings and massaged tentacles over his chest and phallus.
He looked over
at Lilly, who now knelt helpless as her skin became dusky, then turned a
brilliant shade of blue. However, the color became an iridescent hue that
reminded him of something just outside the confines of his mind. Her skin
bubbled, separated, and formed into thousands of compact hairs. Small points
protruded from her shoulders and down her arms until they freed themselves from
the surface of her skin, as she screamed. Several long, hollow shoots grew,
lengthening into the elegant, arching rods, as more buds sprouted from them and
turned into thready feathers. As the feathers lengthened, green and blue eyes
opened in intervals. At a screech of transformation, Lilly turned into a peacock,
whose tail plumed out in a perfect fan. A feathered diadem lifted from her
skull and the beautiful eyes all blinked at him. He wanted to mate with her,
devour her, possess her, and bellowed out an unearthly warrior battle cry.
Breaking his bonds, he charged at her.
About the Author:
Award-winning author, Jeny Heckman, was born in Bellingham, Washington, and was the youngest of two daughters. She met her husband, Jeff, in August 1992, and eloped three months later, at Magen’s Bay, on St. Thomas, U.S.V.I.
She wrote her first book, the Catch, in a few short months but took several years before she gained the courage to self-publish it at her son’s urging, and her love for writing began.
In 2018, Jeny knew her next project would be a series that showed adults could have adventures in the paranormal-fantasy genre too. So, she created the Heaven & Earth series, a story of doomed Greek gods and their only salvation, their modern-day descendants. Her first book of the series, the Sea Archer, was immediately picked up by the New York publishing house, the Wild Rose Press, and won, “Best in Category” from the 2018 Chanticleer International Book Awards.
In the year 2020, Jeny released, Dancing Through Tears, a short story from the anthology, Australia Burns: Volume Two, highlighting the Route 91 massacre from the perspective of one family at the concert, and at Mandalay Bay. She also intends to release, the Warrior’s Progeny, and Dee’s Cornucopia, in 2020, continuing the Heaven & Earth Series.
Jeny lives in Washington State with her husband of over twenty-eight years.
Website: https://jenyheckman.com/
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Hello Fangtastic! Thank you so very much for having me on today. It's a real treat to be here! I want to ask your readers if you could write a paranormal or fantasy novel what would it be about?
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