Guess what!
TODAY is the 330th-year anniversary of the first hanging in the Salem Witch Trials.
Does anyone know why that's a big deal to me?
Well, I'll tell you.
You see...once upon a time, I started writing this really eclectic book series that had dragons and castles and unicorns and sword fights...and toilet paper?
Anyway, this fantasy world I created just so happened to spring from the Salem Witch Trials.
Makes total sense, right?
No, I didn't think it would.
Okay, I'll start over!
Closer to 450 years ago, then... There was this war over in the Ottoman Empire area (which really happened in true life), and God sent down these angels to help fight in it (yeah, now we're getting to the fictional part I made up). So one of those angels fell in love with a human woman, and they had a little Nephilim baby together.
And that baby went on to become Bridget Bishop, who...
Yes! Ding, ding, ding! In real life, she was the first person hanged in the Salem Witch Trials, exactly 330 years ago today.
But instead of dying, my fictional version of Bridget (the Nephilim version I made up) floated out among the stars. She grabbed onto an astroid and started spinning and spinning until she turned the rock into her very own world.
Now, we may all call this dwarf planet Ceres in real life, but in my book series, it is...The Outer Realms.
And throughout the first four stories of my Love Mark series, we've slowly learned that a curse has been threatening my made-up world.
I know! How dare it...
At the end of the last book, we left off, knowing that this nasty little curse was going to destroy the Outer Realms completely by the end of its 330th year unless someone saved it.
Well, that 330th year is here, my friends. To the very day. So I guess it's only fitting that I release the last book already so you all can find out what happened.
Long story short...
the fifth and final book in the Love Mark Fantasy Romance series!
It is time.
And don't worry, if you want to start from the beginning with book one and catch up, that's cool. The Complete Love Mark Box Set is also available today.
Thank you to those of you who have gone on this crazy, epic journey with me through the Outer Realms and all its mishmashed oddities. It's been quite an adventure. And I'm honored to get to share it with you.
Happy reading!
Linda
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WHAT THE STORY IS ABOUT
Dori Baquet never thought her life was all that remarkable. A single waitress living in New Orleans, she was just trying to make it through the pandemic in one piece until one little brick to the head unexpectedly sucked her into an alternate dimension.
Now, she’s navigating an unfamiliar, medieval-type world called the Outer Realms, where there’s no chocolate…or books, and everyone lives in castles and rides horses while carrying around their own personal sword. If that weren’t strange enough, she learns she’s actually a descendant of the oldest, most cursed family here. Plus, she has magical abilities. But the craziness doesn’t end there.
She only got one of their love mark tattoo thingies to fit in with the locals and avoid being burned at the stake or some such atrocity. Except the very day she realizes how to get back home, her freaking love mark alerts her to the presence of her soul mate nearby. And Dori can’t seem to resist her insatiable need to see what this dude’s like.
Meeting the King of Lowden, however, changes everything, and Dori soon learns her adventures in this oddball world are just beginning.
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