Today I’m thrilled to welcome over Debra Dunbar, author of Three
Wishes, a Paranormal Romance.
Publisher: Anessa Books
Date of Publication: March 7, 2015
ISBN: 978-1505671193
ASIN: B00RKE5608
Number of pages: 229
Word Count: 79,000
Cover Artist: Phatpuppy Art
Book Description
Dar helped his foster sister become the ruler of Hel, and
helped her free the enslaved humans from the elves. It’s about time he helped
himself – to a fun week of mayhem in the Windy City. Collapsing a few buildings
and corrupting politicians is an ideal vacation for a demon in Chicago, but Dar
didn’t count on a beautiful angel sabotaging his fun and putting him to work.
Asta is an angelic enforcer, scanning for demons in her
assigned territory and sending them to an early grave. Unfortunately, the
latest trespasser from Hel has diplomatic immunity - but immunity doesn’t mean
she can’t coerce him into helping her track and dispatch the powerful demon
that’s been cycling in and out of her radar for the last few days.
Demons are the sworn enemies of every angel, but Asta must
learn to trust Dar or the dark presence that is growing in Chicago will spread
- and this particular enemy has the skills and knowledge to send human
civilization back to the dark ages.
She has one week left as an enforcer before she returns to
her heavenly home – one week to catch an elusive monster, and one week to
safeguard her heart from the demon who is determined to seduce her to sin.
Let’s Interview!
What inspired you to write this book?
My books feature demons and angels and I’ve dealt with
summoning in other novels. I began to
think of this as a moral dilemma for the angels – the summoned demons aren’t
here through their own actions. How can
an angel condemn one to death when he/she was dragged here through a human’s
magic?
That dilemma of delivering preemptive justice was the
perfect situation for my angel and her very unusual demon counterpart.
How did you come up with the title?
The villain in this book is a genie in a bottle – a demon
who was summoned from Hel six hundred years ago and trapped inside a vessel
until he performs his contracted service.
All it takes for him to be released is for the human currently owning
the bottle to make three wishes.
And you can imagine how pissed off he’s going to be after
being stuck in a bottle for six hundred years.
What made you choose the main setting for your book?
I grew up in Northern Indiana an hour away from
Chicago. It is such an amazing city –
the museums, the diverse neighborhoods
If you had to sell your book based on one run of dialogue
(start quote to end quote), which would it be?
“I get the feeling you’re going to smash my face in or rip
one of my arms off. No sense in getting
my clothes all bloody. You should probably
get naked too, although I think those pants are beyond salvage. Pity.
I like the way they hug your ass.”
Are you currently working on another story? If so, we’d love
some details.
I’m working on the first draft of Sins of the Flesh, which
is book 2 in my Half Breed Series. The
heroine is a half-succubus/half-elf, and her love interest is an incubus. Yes, there’s a lot of sex in these novels!
Sins of the Flesh takes place in Maui where Amber is meeting
Irix after having been separated from him for six months. Their reunion turns to more than sex on the
beach when a farmer performs a fertility ritual with dire consequences.
Are your book/books available in audio? In other languages?
If so, give us more details about where we can get them and what languages
they’re in.
The main Imp Series is available in audio, and the first in
the series – A Demon Bound – is currently in the process of German translation.
What genre/genres do you prefer to write? Are there other
genres you’d like to write in the future?
So far everything I’ve written straddles the urban
fantasy/paranormal romance/dark fantasy lines.
The constants in my writing so far have been dark humor and paranormal
elements. I’ve thought of branching into
horror, but that’s probably it.
Do you write books in series? If so, share a bit about the
series you currently have published or are coming soon.
I love writing series and series spin-offs! The Imp Series has six out of the ten books
already published, and there are currently three stand-alone spin-off novels
(of which Three Wishes is one). I also
have a spin-off series about a half succubus – the Half Breed series.
Excerpt
Stupid revolving doors.
What idiot thought these things were a good method of entering a
building? She stood watching as the door made its circuitous route. Could she
time it so she actually managed to get in between the sections? The last time, she’d been knocked backwards
onto the pavement.
That wouldn’t be a
graceful entrance given her current dress and sky-high stilettos.
“Need help?”
She recognized his voice even before the faint energy
trickled across her skin with its siren song.
How did he do that? Thank Aaru
all demons weren’t as stealthy as Dar, or her job would be nearly impossible.
As she turned, she realized that with her heels, she towered over him. In flats, she was the same height as the
demon, but the shoes she loved so much put Dar’s chin right at her bosom — a
fact he’d quickly realized and had taken advantage of.
“Want me to get the door for you?” he asked her breasts.
“Did you make reservations?
Otherwise we can skip the revolving door and just head over to Taco
Bell.”
The demon chuckled and brushed a curl from her bare shoulder,
his fingers lingering against her neck while his eyes explored the skin north
of her cleavage. “Of course I made
reservations. I didn’t want you to give
me any excuse to not eat tonight.”
“I swore I’d play your game tonight as long as you help me
catch the other demon. I’ll eat anything you put in front of me.”
Why did that cause the demon to nearly fall over
laughing? Did he have something in
particular he wanted her to eat, the thought of which was giving him such
amusement?
Oh. Yeah, that probably
wasn’t the best thing for her to say given his proclivity toward the sin of
lust.
Wiping his eyes, still chuckling, Dar strode forward,
stopping the revolving door to the angry protests of those trapped inside. “Then let us dine, my angel.”
Asta took a deep breath and walked past him, putting her
palms on the front of the glass as she’d seen the humans do. Hopefully he wouldn’t bump her out as he had
the other evening. With these shoes on,
she’d probably land face-first on the plush carpet.
“Ready?”
She should have known he’d squeeze into the tiny space
behind her, pressing the full length of his form against her back and
rear. Asta tried to scoot forward, only
to find herself sandwiched between the demon and the glass. The humans yelled at them to move, but Dar
held still, his body warm and powerful.
“Maybe we should just stay here a while.” His hips shifted
and Asta felt something stir to life, hard and firm against her buttocks.
She’d told him no sex, but rubbing against her in the
doorway wasn’t off limits. And it was
most definitely brought with it welcome sensations. “We need to move,” Asta said with
regret. She tried to push the door
forward,
“I love pissing them off,” he whispered against her
hair. “So much anger over such a minor
inconvenience. The gifts of Aaru seem to
have turned them into a bunch of minor demons, don’t you agree?”
It did seem a fair comparison at the moment, but Asta hadn’t
squandered her century here. She’d seen
sparks of divinity in the human race, and no demon was going to convince her
otherwise.
She shifted to look at him over her shoulder, rubbing
herself along his body in the process.
Oh stars, this felt good. If only
those darned humans weren’t causing such a racket. “You’re being
inconsiderate.” Her voice was breathless. “They have a right to be angry. And
they’re still very early in their evolution.
Give them another ten-thousand years or so, and I think you’ll find
they’re more angelic.”
About the Author
After majoring in English with a concentration in Medieval
Literature and Folklore studies, Debra promptly sold out to the corporate
world, occasionally writing marketing copy and op/ed articles for a local city
paper. By day, she designs compensation programs, after dark she stuffs her
nose into obscure mythology, and feverishly writes her novels. A DEMON BOUND is
her debut novel.
Debra lives on a farm in Maryland with Sweetie, three sons,
and a Noah's ark of four legged family members. She drives an old PT Cruiser,
couldn't carry a tune if you duct taped it to her back, and enjoys an
occasional cosmopolitan (heavy on the vodka). On a good day, she jogs and
horseback rides, hopefully managing to keep the horse between herself and the
ground. Her only known super power is 'Identify Roadkill'.
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