Golden Shana: The Chase by A P von K’Ory,

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Golden Shana: The Chase

by A P von K’Ory,

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GENRE: Erotic Romantic Suspense

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INTERVIW:

Any weird things you do when you’re alone?

• I have this habit of talking to the portraits of my forebears, recent and ancestral, that hang along landing walls, libraries/studies, the drawing room and my office. I talk to them as if we’re having a rattling good conversation and I even ask them questions. There are times I could swear I saw a wink of cheekiness or approval, or heard a whispered answer to my question. That’s sterling-weird!

What is your favorite quote and why?

• Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless. I love the simplicity of the words that penetrates deeper with thought. It is the way I write my sex scenes. I want those emotions and sensations coming up bubbling from a beautifully sublime deeper place in the lovers’ bond with each other. I don’t think there’s anything “just physical” in sex – even for men. And especially when penetration is involved. Sex has a basic primal divinity to it, whenever, however, and wherever the sex occurs.  To continue the Immanuel Kant quote: …so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.Need I say more?

Who is your favorite author and why?

• Here is where I’m sort of schizophrenic. I have several favourite authors depending on the subject matter.  In novels, I tend to be rather migratory. For erotic novels, Jodi Ellen Malpas and Sylvia Day, because they have strong female protagonists which is a weakness of mine. For women’s literature I go for Margaret Atwood but there a chance I might just add Nicholas Sparks to that. For a good spy novel, John le Carré  or Frederick Forsyth. For thrillers, I’m a John Grisham girl, with a dash of Lee Child, but I admit I’m getting off Child because it’s become too repetitive. I already know what Jack Reacher is going to do after the first paragraph. I’m weary of the detailed descriptions of violent chops and kicks and what, exactly, they do to the recipients’ human body.

What, in your opinion, are the most important elements of good writing?

• I like reading a book that leaves me with something I can keep: an experience, a new general knowledge, an invaluable take into the cultural mores of some native dwellers or the Amazonas or New Zealand. Or just an exotic recipe or alien sex. Being entertained is of course important, but I like to have some lasting takeaways I can keep as well. Great for keeping the dinner conversation going.

Where did you get the idea for this book?

• I think I mentioned that in one of the interviews about my main character. I read several erotic novels and erotica that disappointed me. At least they didn’t live to expectations considering the entire buzz about them. For example, I bought Twilight and Fifty Shades together, both in box sets, because they’d been recommended by some author friends when I asked what “commercial” was in book genres. I read none of the books of each box set to the end. Then I tried more writers and read Day’s Crossfire books and Malpas’ This Manand rather liked those. But something was still missing and after more disappointments I decided to write an erotic love story that I would fall in love with. Et voilà,Roman Alastair Northcott Broughton Castell and Svadishana (Shana) Lindqvist of the Golden Shana Serieswere born.

BLURB:

An evening at the La Scala in Milan twirls the lives of five people into a web of rivalry, intrigues, heartaches, obsession, murder, loss, and revenge.

“… for those who love selective eroticism with substance. An exciting and sophisticated erotic thriller for the astute romance reader, woman or man.”

Love, a word Roman can hardly spell, hits him when he sees Shana one evening. She’s the first woman not dropping to her knees at his mere presence. Used to getting whatever he wants, he chases her. Only to discovers that she prefers the girls. Roman can’t let that deter him. But is he for once up against his own comeuppance? At any rate, he needs assistance, which comes in the form of Alyssa, Shana’s BFF. Trouble crops up when Alyssa is all too ready and willing to drop on her knees for him.

Roman can’t get anywhere near Shana on his own. Would he start anything with Alyssa as long as this finally leads him to meet Shana in person?

Then there’s Marie, his current companion, who has a life-changing surprise for him.

Roman: I never chased after a woman. Then I caught a glimpse of the woman I would kneel for, but didn’t even know her name. Heck, I determined to find her if it took me the rest of my life.

Shana: He stood in the room with her. The frisson in the currents freaking between them knocked her senseless. The mutual force of predator and prey, blasting into her core … her soul … Danger. Keep far away from him

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EXCERPT:

Was it love I felt for Svadishana? A woman I’d spoken three whiny words – Please call me! – to? Was it more than simple lust and desire? Did I want to possess more than just her body? Pondering these questions alone was so unlike me. That woman had turned me into an alien even unto my own self. What I felt, my inner voice said, was more than the thrill of the hunt. More than lust, desire, need, passion, the excitement of possession, and subjugation. Of course all that was part of it. But the basis or the source, the seedbed on which all that sprouted and was growing to full blossom in me, could well be something else.

When I thought of her, saw her image from Milan in my mind, watched how she moved in long smooth strides in YouTube, my brow beaded with sweat. I couldn’t pull my gaze away from the few photos I’d fished out of the Internet. Group photos at a family birthday or the authorized biography of her father. Her movements in a YouTube conference clip were springy and powerful even in their smoothness. She exuded strength all over the place, laughing, talking, gesticulating.

A breath-taking beauty. Such beauty that I dared not believe it at times.

And brains to go with it.

In love or not, I knew what I wanted and Svadishana was the answer. I wanted her and would do anything short of suicide to get her. Who knows – perhaps when it came to that as the only means available, I’d really murder too. I didn’t in the least care about the consequences, as long as they got me to where I wanted to get to.

Svadishana’s arms and knickers and… heart?

What obsession, Roman. Get back to real.

No chance. Real was Svadishana.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

A P von K’Ory writes the kind of books she herself would like to read and is passionate about, whether romance, psychological thriller or nonfiction. She is the winner of six awards from four continents, the last one being the Achievers Award for Writer of the Year 2013 in the Netherlands. The Selmere Integration Prize was awarded her in 2014 for her engagement in helping African Women in the Diaspora cope with a variety of domestic and social problems. The Proposal, a short story, won the Cook Communications first prize in 2010 and is published in an American anthology Africa 2012. In 2012, she won the Karl Ziegler Prize for her commitment to bring African culture to Western society in various papers, theses, and lectures. Again in 2012, her book Bound to Tradition: The Dream was nominated for the 2012 Caine Prize by the Author-me Group, Sanford, and in 2013 she was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize.

Von K’Ory is married to an aristocrat and politician of Franco-German descent, has a large extended  family. She lectures Economics and Sociology in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. She’s migratory and – weather willing – lives in Germany, France, Cyprus, and Greece.

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