Twice Lost by Jennifer Field Excerpt, Trailer & Interview

Title: Twice Lost
Author: Jennifer Field
Publisher: Forever Red Publishing, LLC
Pages: 379
Genre: Paranormal Erotica
Format: Paperback/Kindle

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Jenna Thanatos is discovering that life isn't what it always seems. Just an ordinary girl with a healthy sexual appetite, she soon learns there are such things that "go bump in the night" and she's one of them. Can she accept who she really is? Can she save the sexy men in her life and herself before it's too late? Join Jenna on her life altering journey and learn what it's like to be a Harbinger.

Book Excerpt:

The Underworld

The rain and stench of rotting flesh permeated the Harbinger’s senses. He dragged his victim through the massive gate leading to the ferry. The man, whose name he didn’t care to learn, was another fine upstanding citizen of the human race: child molester, rapist, murderer. This fate was almost too kind for him.

The man kicked and screamed obscenities at the large winged creature that held him. “Where are you taking me, you ugly fucking beast?” The screaming man looked around and the scene he saw was something out of a horror movie. Several massive winged creatures dragged both men and women to the edge of river, unfazed by their victim’s screams or cries for help. Each stood sentinel, waiting for their turn to board the ferry.

The mountains and terrain were charred black. No life grew here; no sunlight penetrated the sky above that swirled with red and black clouds unlike any he had ever seen. The lightning marred the landscape, setting fire to brittle, lifeless trees. He held back gagging as the smell of burning flesh overwhelmed him.

“I never did anything, bring me back.” He struggled against the thick chain wrapped around his neck, pulling with all his might; yet, unable to budge the beast that dragged him further into this nightmare.

The Harbinger lifted the man by the thick chain, cutting off his supply of putrid air; his black claws dripping with blood from where he had reached into the man’s chest, pulling out his soul to drag it to hell.

The man stared into eyes that were solid black pools, devoid of any feeling. “I am not your judge, nor your jury.” The creature pulled him closer, revealing his massive fangs. “But, I have seen what you have done. Death is too lenient for you.” The creature flared its black wings and let out an unearthly growl.

Urine ran down the man’s leg and onto the Harbinger’s booted foot. He tossed the man back down onto the ground, still holding tight to the chain. He heard the distinct crunch of breaking bone as the man’s body hit the ground in the most unnatural of positions.

A smile curled along the Harbinger’s lips, the soul had corporeal substance in the underworld. More importantly, it felt pain, but would not die. This man would beg for a death that would never come. Each day would bring endless pain and suffering, no other existence waited for him.

“You have no right to bring me here, I repented!” The man’s screams were one among many as the souls of the unrighteous waited to cross one of the five rivers.

“Did your victims beg? Did you show them any mercy?” His clawed hand came down over the man’s skull and inundated his mind with images from his young, helpless victims. Flashes of an innocent face stricken with fear, a mother’s grieving heart as she identified her child’s broken, lifeless body.

“Stop please, I repent, I repent! I’m sorry for everything I have ever done. Please, I repent my sins.” The man shook with such fear, and broke into prayer. “The lord is my Shepherd…”

The creature looked down at him as he heaved him closer to the river’s edge. “There is no God that will save your soul now, it belongs to me. And, my payment lies beyond the river.” He pointed across the river to their destination.

The man watched as creature after hideous creature approached the ferry with their victim dragging behind. The ferryman held out his hand for payment to cross. The man watched as the creature held out its hand, revealing a coin that floated just above its palm. The ferryman took the coin and turned it back and forth, inspecting it, testing its weight. When he was satisfied, he nodded his head and the creature and victim entered the ferry.

This was repeated as several of the creatures and their charges entered the ferry. His creature stood, waiting, as the boat drifted into the mists of the river.

“Why did we not board the boat? There was clearly room left.”

The creature, again, lifted the chain and looked into the man’s eyes as he watched him struggle for breath. His eyes began to bulge and his face puffed out in bright crimson. “Those people still have hope. You, do not. Our destination lies elsewhere.”

About the Author

Jennifer lives in Massachusetts and works full-time in the Bridal Industry. With a daytime job surrounded by simple romance, it is her love for adventure that makes her who she is. She has a love for all things 80’s and has a very mild Diet Coke addiction. As an avid mountain climber, it is not unusual for Jennifer to be hanging off a 5.9 in the Adirondacks or the Shawangunk Mountain ranges. During the off season of climbing, also known as winter, she attends the New England Center for Circus Arts where she studies static trapeze (think Cirque rather than circus). She is an only child so she has her mother to thank for her over active imagination and knack for storytelling. Over the years she has written several short stories of the "naughty" nature for friends but  never had envisioned herself as a writer; Just someone who enjoyed telling a steamy story from time to time. Throughout school she had difficulty with spelling and English, but it never stopped her love for reading, especially a good romance, horror or mystery! To this day she still spells so poorly that even spell check has to ask what the heck she is trying to spell.

Interview:

Where are you from?

Originally Holyoke Massachusetts. I still live in Western Massachusetts, you always have to specify Western Mass or everyone just thinks Boston.

Tell us your latest news?

I’ll be doing my first book signing in Worchester on October 4^th. Im pretty excited about that.

When and why did you begin writing?

Kindergarten, my first book was called The Brids Who Fly. The Brids of course were birds and the plot was that they flew, I liked to keep it simple. But honestly I have always written short stories, it was just something I enjoyed doing. I started wanting to write an actual book about four years ago. I have about twelve started manuscripts.

When did you first consider yourself a writer?

I don’t know. To me writers are like Hemmingway, Steven King and John Grisham. I’m just someone who sat down one day and wrote a story to see if I could.

What inspired you to write your first book?

I really just wanted to see if I could do it. I’m literally that person who woke up one morning and said “I think I’ll write a book.” So I did.

Do you have a specific writing style?

Is make a lot of mistakes and clean them up later a style? Because if it is, then that’s me all the way.

How did you come up with the title?

Well while I was writing my laptop decided to commit suicide by internally frying its hard drive. I was about twenty-five percent done and lost everything. I purchased a new laptop. And the same thing happened. Locally I only lost what I hadn’t already backed up. But to me the title had to be Twice Lost. 

Is there a message in your novel that you want readers to grasp?

I apparently write female characters that believe themselves to be flawed or weak in some way. Yet each of these women are able to dig deep within themselves and find the strength they need to go on. Is that a message, I don’t know. But I’d like to think that if I was faced with a bad situation I would be able to find the strength within me to kick some butt.

How much of the book is realistic?

If I told you that I’d have to kill you.

Are experiences based on someone you know, or events in your own life?

No, it’s a complete work of fiction. Except for the hot sex scenes all 100% real.

What books have most influenced your life most?

Influenced my life. I would say The Five People You Meet In Heaven. I think you meet people throughout your life just when you need to.

If you had to choose, which writer would you consider a mentor?

Laurann Dohner. She’s written several series that I love, New Species and Cyborg Seduction series. She was the guest writer on a panel for the publishing company that she writes for. It was about submitting your first novel. After the webinar I PM’d her and asked if she had any advice. She was so nice and I was so surprised she responded back.

What book are you reading now?

Right now I am reading His Indecent Training by Sky Corgan. I’m kind of on a BDSM kick.

Are there any new authors that have grasped your interest?

Maegan Abel who also writes for Forever Red Publishing. I read her book Perfectly Broken and it was great. And Lucian Bane who writes the series Dom Wars.

What are your current projects?

Currently I am working on four books well three novellas and one full length novel within the Harbinger Series. The novellas will be stories that will focus on one character from Twice Lost and all take place before the first book. Tye will be the first out winter of 2014 then Alastor out spring 2015 and then Gabe out summer of 2015 then the full length second book in the Harbinger Series Twice Visited.

Name one entity that you feel supported you outside of family members?

An entity? Well I have a little stone statue of a gargoyle that sits next to me as I write and I pet his head and rub his ears when I’m stuck. Does that count?

What would you like my readers to know?

Don’t have a bucket list, have a to do list. Try to enjoy life and do things you want to do. So that someday you can look back and say “Yeah, I did that.”

Her latest book is the paranormal erotica, Twice Lost.

For More Information

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• Visit Jennifer’s blog.
• Visit her at Forever Red Publishing.
• Contact the author.