Paranormal Love Stories: Romance Beyond the Veil
My fascination with otherworldly love stories began when I heard my first fairy tale! In a child’s innocence, it’s natural for witches, wizards, and all sorts of specially gifted characters to exist in harmony with regular everyday people.
I never lost that feeling!
Something about a paranormal love story has always grabbed me, but I’m specifically drawn to those with engaging characters that could be your next-door neighbor. Or your kids or grandkids.
My characters know they are different from others. Often, they don’t appreciate these differences or may even try to hide them. But in the end, they realize that who they are is enough, and they are all they need to be.
And they mean the world to someone else, even if, at the beginning of the story, they don’t see it.
That’s why my sweet romance beyond the veil stories are unique.
Authors and screenwriters who’ve influenced my writing blend romance with other genres, such as science fiction, fantasy, or magic. But there’s enough realism in their and my stories to make you think…um, maybe this could happen!
Diana Gabaldon tops the list, whose Outlander series has a massive reader following that can’t get enough of the time-traveling romance between Jamie and Claire. See my hand waving here?
I loved writing my time-traveling story for Cat’s Paw Cove, where the main characters return to the 1700s to save a young boy from the gallows.
In one of my Nocturne Falls Universe stories, a pilot from WWII returns to reclaim his reputation. The ending to that story made me cry, and I “wrote” the book, for heaven’s sake!
Have you seen these: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir or Bell, Book, and Candle? The movies are all about waiting for the skeptical Ordinaries to come around to accept the extraordinary world.
I love Ghosts, currently running on CBS. You have to empathize with poor Jay. But he’s done a great job adjusting to life in a mansion inhabited by ALL the spirits of those who died on the property…even back in the Viking age!
Remember “Bewitched”? Sam tried hard not to use her magic, but sometimes it was the only way.
Promise me you’ll catch one of these movies or shows and let me know what you think!
The fun of writing my stories begins when Ordinaries start seeing beyond the veil!
Trust me, I’ve tried creating “regular” stories, but once a gifted character jumps in, that’s it. They demand to be heard and hijack the story. I can’t stop them and, frankly, don’t want to. I’m simply the scribe.
This is precisely what happened in my new indie sweet romance series set in Baga Shores, a small coastal town on Florida’s west coast.
I started writing about Ordinary humans in an Ordinary world.
Suddenly, the main characters reveal their true nature. They are witches, wizards, psychics, and shifters.
They start out solving day-to-day problems like any other human.
When that fails, they have to rely on their gifts.
In the first book, BEWITCHING ANDIE, Andie McCraig discovers that magic doesn’t always work how you want!
And she should know.
She’s a single mom and a witch! Unfortunately, she isn’t a very good one. When her young son courts danger by flaunting his emerging Draiocht wizard gift, she has no choice but to return home to Baga Shores.
As soon as she arrives, her grandmother, Mimi Tanner, arranges for a mentor for the boy.
But the last thing Brett Austin wants is a protégé. He renounced his gift long ago and has no intentions of being a mentor, much less a role model, to a powerful young Draiocht with a mother who couldn’t cast a proper spell if her life depended on it!
A frightening prediction changes Brett’s mind. As danger swirls around the enchanting small town of Baga Shores, Brett soon realizes he and Andie must work together to protect her son.
Here’s the catch: Can Brett let go of the past long enough to help Andie, or will he fail again—this time losing everything important to him?
My passion is intertwining realism with the supernatural. If you’re like me and love a good paranormal love story, I invite you to join me on this journey.
Be sure and sign up for my NL here on www.CandaceColt.com to begin exploring my world of sweet romance with a magical twist!
~Candace~
Love this I’ve seen the show Ghosts and am slowly getting into it.
Valerie, it takes a couple of episodes to get the full effect. This is one of those ensemble cast shows, so along with the main characters’ weekly drama, at least one or more of the ghosts have something going on. I don’t know if it’s a cheat or not, but… We DVR the series, then binge-watch them LOLOL!!!