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Author: Merrie Destefano | Website
Merrie Destefano left a 9-to-5 desk job as a magazine editor to become a full-time novelist and freelance editor. With twenty years’ experience in publishing, her background includes editor of Victorian Homes magazine and founding editor of Cottages & Bungalows magazine. She lives in Southern California with her husband, their two German shepherds and a Siamese cat. For more information, visit http://www.merriedestefano.com.
Published Works & Book Reviews
Feast: Harvest of Dreams
Halloween is a bad time to return to the woods . . .
Madeline MacFaddin ("Mad Mac" to fans of her bestselling magical stories) spent blissful childhood summers in Ticonderoga Falls. And this is where she wants to be now that her adult life is falling apart. The dense surrounding forest holds many memories, some joyous, some tantalizingly only half-remembered. And she's always believed there was something living in these wooded hills.
But Maddie doesn't remember the dark parts—and knows nothing of the mountain legend that holds the area's terrified residents captive. She has no recollection of Ash, the strange and magnificent creature who once saved her life as a child, even though it is the destiny of his kind to prey upon humanity. And soon it will be the harvest . . . the time to feast.
Once again Maddie's dreams—and her soul—are in grave danger. But magic runs deep during harvest. Even a spinner of enchanted tales has wondrous powers of her own . . .
Reviewer: Terri
Review: Aug 20, 2011
Madeline, Maddie, MacFaddin spent a summer at a B&B in Ticonderoga Falls as a young child. There she lured by a creature but save by another but she remembers none of this. All she remembers is the good times there. Currently though her life is anything but a good time. She's recently divorced, has a nine year old son and is suffering with writer's block. She loves her son dearly but if she doesn't soon
Afterlife
WELCOME TO YOUR NEXT CHANCE.
Chaz Domingue works as a professional Babysitter in New Orleans. His job is to integrate and protect the recently deceased into their new and improved lives—a position he reluctantly accepted after his father was murdered. Though Fresh Start has always been the only game in town, resurrection isn’t what it’s cracked up to be. Nine lives are all a person can get—and a powerful group of desperate, high-level Nine-Timers will stop at nothing to possess the keys to true immortality. Unfortunately, this places Chaz at the lethal center of a maelstrom.
Now the only hope for Chaz and his family—and the ultimate fate of the human race—is secretly locked away in the mind of Angelique, the beautiful, mysterious Newbie who’s been entrusted to Chaz’s care…
Reviewer: Terri
Review: Sep 23, 2010
Chaz Domingue is a professional Babysitter in New Orleans. That is he watches newly resurrected people for the first week of their new lives. He helps them with the transition and keeps them safe. Anyone who signs up with his family’s business can have up to nine lives. After that their DNA starts to fall apart making it impossible to make a viable clone. He’s been doing this a while and never rea