Claudette Melanson writes & edits in Kitchener, Ontario, with her husband Ron and four bun babies: Tegan, Pepper, Butters & Beckett. She graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English and an MA in Literature. She's wished to be a Vampire since age five. She hopes to one day work full time as an author, since there are many, many books living inside her head.In her spare time she enjoys watching Japanese Anime and reading vampire stories....along with other great fiction. She is also very interested in good health and is an advocate of Ketogenic eating, using whole and natural foods. Her favorite foods are bulletproof coffee, cashew flour crust pizza and treats made with xylitol and almond, coconut or cashew flours.
Future dreams include writing many more books and spending more time with her son Jacob. Her biggest dream is to make Universal Halloween Horror Nights a yearly event with hubby and son. A Rabbit Rescue fanatic, she also hopes to help rescues all over the world save many innocent lives.
Q&A With the Author:
6. Now that we've gotten to know each other, tell me a story. It can be long or short. From your childhood or last week. Funny, sad, or somewhere in between. Just make sure it's yours. What's your story?
We walked into the shelter with the pet carrier.
“We came to see Tegan,” I told the lady at the counter.
“Oh yes, I got your email. You’re Claudette?”
“Yes.”
“Right this way.”
We peeked into the room at the two bunny cages stacked on top of one another. Tegan had the sweetest eyes…just as he had in the picture on the Rabbit Rescue site which had drawn me to him. He was easily four times the size of the dwarf bunny in the cage below him.
“He’s really big,” Ron said. “Aren’t you worried he might hurt Cuddles?”
“Are you kidding? Remember, you’re talking about Cuddles.” I turned to the volunteer. “Can I go in and see him?”
“Sure.” A heartbeat later we were inside the room, and the lady was taking Tegan from his cage. “Do you want to sit on the floor?”
Tegan came over to me immediately. It was like he knew we were always meant to be together. His thin grey and white spotted body crawled over my own tall frame, his nose, heart-shaped with its white outline, skimmig my skin to take me in. “His ear…”
“That’s just starting to heal up.” It looked like something…or someone…had torn a notch from the outside edge closest to his body.
“How did this happen to him?”
“We don’t know. Rabbit Rescue brought him to the shelter.”
I started to rise, but Tegan pounced onto my chest in desperation, as if begging me not to go. “Don’t worry, buddy; you’re coming with us. Ron, bring the carrier in here. We’ll take him,” I said to the woman, who quickly exited to print out the adoption paperwork. Ron placed the open carrier on the floor, and after the briefest of whiffs, Tegan leapt in, eager to go home.
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The 3rd book in the 1st of several trilogies featuring Maura & her family!
Maura has never felt so alone in her life…nor has her existence ever been so overshadowed by peril… Not only do both her parents—her distant but loving mother and recently- returned father—remain absent from her life, but due to the hideous error in judgement executed in collusion with her best friend, Valdamir, and adoptive sister, Susie, Maura has been cut off from the pair’s friendship and support, forbidden by both her father and the fallout from the dire outcome to see either of them. The heartbreak she suffers, brought on by the weight of these estrangements, is only intensified by the continued mysterious absence of her supernaturally-destined mate, Ron…whose disappearance delivers grave consequences Maura would have never dreamed possible…
Despised by her vampire cousin, Aldiva, for reasons Maura cannot yet comprehend, the young changeling will be forced to guard her back with every step, as she comes to realize this member of her vampire family would love nothing more than to bring about her demise. Aldiva’s wrath calls forth other members from both Vancouver covens, forcing them to rush to Maura’s aid—even though her father, their king, has expressly forbidden the other vampires to initiate contact with his daughter. Will her extended family on Vancouver Island obey, abandoning Maura to her doom, or will they instead rebel against Maxwell’s wishes in order to save her life?
In addition to the menace personified in her unsolicited enemy, the unlikely vampire princess will find herself drowning as she is pulled down into the depths of a far more devastating crisis…one which may condemn her to a fate she considers much more undesirable than death. But in order to tear herself free from the deadly pull which is drawing her under, Maura must enlist the help of her preternatural family, exposing her newfound friends to a danger none of them have ever had the misfortune to face before. Can she be saved or will the riptide drag Maura under…along with those she loves the most…
In this third and final book of The Maura DeLuca Trilogy,the first of several trilogies to come, the reader will delve even deeper into the secrets guarded by Maura’s father, the mystery of Ron’s role in her life and the identities of the mysterious Vancouver Island Coven members who have, up until now, remained hidden in the shadows. This trilogy rounds out the segment of Maura’s life during which she discovers she is a member of The Born—a human destined to complete her transformation into a vampire! This series of young adult fantasy novels has been enjoyed by readers of nearly every age and are found by them to be dramatically different from any other vampire books they have read in the past. Discover a magical world filled with fae, angels, elves, pixies and other enchanting creatures in addition to two families made up of some of the most likeable vampires—for the most part—to ever exist.
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Snippet:
“I know
what you did to your friend,” she stated, throwing my tenuous hold on my mental
axis to the stabbing wintry wind.
My
defenses kicked in, brought purely to light by some unfamiliar instinct. “I
didn’t… It was Susie…” Shame flooded my entire being.
“You
turned her. It was your doing, ultimately,” she articulated with icy
absolution.
It
hadn’t been I alone who’d turned her, but I wouldn’t have mentioned my lost
friend, Valdamir, for a pint of fresh,
warm blood. I feared for his life and safety enough already. Still, her words
gave pause to the blood in my veins and reminded me of my part in the murder of
one of my best friends, Amanda.
Aldiva stalked after me,
toppling me over with the smallest push of her slight index finger. Her eyes
blazed at me… I’d never known blue could hold such fire.
I
scrabbled backward like an upside-downed tortoise—ineffective—my palms scraping
over the thorny rocks. The saltwater’s sharp sting was barely registered by my
mind. Her gaze was far more cutting.
If there
had been anyone around to watch such a ridiculous display, I’m sure they would
have been left bewildered—me, scuttling backward like the world’s clumsiest
crab—backing away in horrified haste from a young girl of such slight stature,
who appeared much more angel than demon from a distance.
“YOU
broke our peace. You disrupted the harmony of my family.” She pointed her
icicle finger at me as she hissed out her rage.
“Maxwell can keep his mate, but I will deny
him his daugh…”
The
chilled idea of sudden, unavoidable death assaulted me with a cold unlike any
I’d ever felt before—even the preternatural touch of my father’s skin—and it
permeated me long after the threat had been nullified.
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