Grave Robbing and Other Hobbies by Jayce Carter

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Grave Robbing and Other Hobbies

by Jayce Carter

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GENRE: Contemporary Paranormal Erotic Romance

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INTERVIEW:

Have you ever had an imaginary friend?

I had one as a kid. It was a toucan, I think, which is admittedly pretty weird. Maybe I’d spent too long staring at the Froot Loop box and too little time around other kids.

Do you have any phobias?

I have one of canned jalapenos. Something about the texture of them makes me gag. I can eat fresh ones at this point, but canned? Nope. They have to be on a different plate from anything else I want to eat, because I feel like anything jalapeno adjacent is infected. In fact, we have to plate the jalapeno plate not touching anything else, either. Those things can jump, I swear…

Do you listen to music when you’re writing?

I listen to a lot of ambient background noise and music without lyrics. I find video game soundtracks work wonderfully for this purpose, because they’re meant to set a mood without being distracting. If there are any lyrics there is a 100% chance that instead of writing I will be singing both badly and loudly.

Do you ever read your stories out loud?

I don’t, but when editing I will occasionally have the computer read it to me in order to catch issues I don’t notice when reading it. Sometimes, when I’m in the car by myself, though, I’ll actually talk out loud and have the back and forth conversations as I plot my story.

Tell us about your main character and who inspired him/her.

Ava Harlin in the main character of Grave Robbing and Other Hobbies. She is a thirty-five year old insurance salesman who is able to communicate with ghosts. She desperately wants to fit in, to find her place in the world, yet she always feels like she is on the outside looking in. She isn’t supernatural but she isn’t exactly human, either, forcing her to live on the fringes of both worlds. She is funny, snarky and brave, even if she doesn’t always feel that way. After spending her entire life struggling to be the normal person she wants to be, she’s pulled into a mystery that highlights all the ways she’s different. She’ll need to accept her own strengths, accept that she won’t ever be normal, or the dangers she faces will overwhelm her.

BLURB:

Abandoned at three—whose parents want a kid who sees ghosts?—I learned the world is quick to punish misfits. I try my best to be a normal, boring human, but the call of the supernatural just won’t be ignored.

When a stranger shows up on my doorstep in the middle of the night, it’s no sexy tryst. Instead, I’m off to the graveyard, digging up the corpse of a murder victim at the demand of the local vampire coven—and that small felony is just the start.

The spirit of the woman has gone missing, something that shouldn’t be possible, and everyone is looking to me for answers. There’s Kase, a vampire who’s both terrifying and secretive. Grant, a mage with a bad attitude and a lot of power. Troy, the possessive werewolf-detective next door and Hunter, a mysterious bad boy who isn’t even close to human.

It’s a race not just against time but against everything to figure out where the spirits are going, who’s behind it and if I can trust the men who now share my bed.

And all because of a little grave robbing…

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EXCERPT:

I took the stairs carefully, gripping the railing as I went, trying to peer into the darkness of my living room.

Was it Kase? Had he decided he didn’t care for a human telling him what to do or where to go? Or perhaps Troy figured waiting until morning for something between an apology and a lecture was just too far.

Except, I knew it wasn’t them. I could feel it deep in my bones, the way I knew when the sun rose without looking outside, the way I knew when a predator was staring at me.

Whatever was here wasn’t anything as trivial as a vampire or werewolf.

And what sort of screwed up world did I live in where vampires and werewolves were trivial?

When I reached the ground floor, that chill worsened. I struggled to breathe, and the darkness wasn’t run of the mill, as if someone forgot to turn on a light. It was deeper, as though light wasn’t just absent but devoured. Something was there inside it, shifting, staring back at me.

My wrists burned, as if fire licked along the edges of the scars there. It crept up my arms, searing me, and when I would have screamed, someone closed their hand over my mouth.

“Trust me, you don’t want it to hear you.”

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Jayce Carter lives in Southern California with her husband and two spawns. She originally wanted to take over the world but realized that would require wearing pants. This led her to choosing writing, a completely pants-free occupation. She has a fear of heights yet rock climbs for fun and enjoys making up excuses for not going out and socializing.

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