Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Interview & Giveaway - Golden Shana: The Chase by A P von K'Ory

 

Golden Shana: The Chase

by A P von K'Ory 

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GENRE: Erotic Romantic Suspense 

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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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Talking with A P von K'Ory


Do you ever wish you were someone else? Who?

  • I did, back in the day. I wanted to be from a “normal” background so that I’d make friends and play with other children of my own choosing. I envied them living a life I wasn’t allowed. But luckily for me, I was sent to boarding school in Yorkshire at the age of nine. I was at last “free” and could choose my own friends and get into all sorts of mischief. Except during exeats and school holidays, when I was whisked off and flown back home where I had to once more play “the role”.

What part of the writing process do you dread?

  • The ending. I fall in love with at least one of my characters – not necessarily the MCs – and have trouble saying goodbye. I also have trouble “killing my darlings.”

Do you ever suffer from writer’s block? If so, what do you do about it?

  • I do. That’s how I came to start writing two or three books consecutively and regardless of the genre. I actually mix writing fiction and nonfiction simultaneously. This gives me time to stop the writing sometimes and simply dwell on the research, where Prof Writer’s Block has nothing on me! Or I switch to a different WIP and escape the Writer’s Block current territory. This actually helps me defeat WB because writing something else or researching often triggers a fresh idea that had eluded me and ushered in the WB in the first place.

Tell us about your latest release.

  • That’s the fourth volume of the Golden Shana Series – The Deception –  which was published a couple of months ago. In the fourth volume, Shana finally finds out who the internationally wanted criminal stalking her is. The same person who had kidnapped Roman to use him in forcing Shana to come to him in his mountain cabin hideout in Norway. He’s her nemesis that she’d erroneously believed died more than ten years ago. He is the source of the demons that have haunted her for a decade and made her emotional life her purgatory. This time she’s determined to kill him herself. Disguised as a trafficked Indian girl delivered for his perverse pleasure, she sets out to his hideaway, an expansive country estate in Ireland, built in 17 80 and once owned by Robert King, the second earl of Kingston. Knowing how dangerous her mission is, she tells nobody about it, not even Roman, her loved “empire”. The only person who knows about her lethal plans is her bodyguard, whom she swears to secrecy.

 

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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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