Breath By Jean Lowe Carlson Blog Tour
Title: Breath
Author: Jean Lowe
Carlson
Series: Three Days of Oblenite #1
Series: Three Days of Oblenite #1
Release Date: 23 March
2015
Summary:
Gryffine Toulunnet is cursed to steal life with her
kiss. Repressed and miserable, she is free of her curse but once a year, upon the heady
death-festival of Rollows. Until her curse marks dashing barman Jessup Rohalle as
her soulmate in a single night of passion. Destined to meet again, Jessup finds
Gryffine and opens her restricted life into pleasure, causing Gryffine to fight her
curse's isolation. But Gryffine's dark draw to kill is shared by another, a man bitterly
cursed like she, a secret that Jessup can never know. And only her dark lover
understands her suffering.
Potential Triggers: Menage a trois,
murder
~Excerpt
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~About the Author ~
~ Other Books in This Series ~
Jessup chewed his lip a moment. “Some of the old
stories are true, Gryffine. And I think yours is one of them. Though I admit… it’s a
very strange version of what I traditionally hear.”
Gryffine frowned. “What have you
heard?”
“The tale of the Boy and the Bones. It’s the
traditional story of Rollows. A young boy touches some bones and is cursed with the
Kiss of Death, with which he kills his own mother. It’s where the Rollows toast
comes from.”
“I’ve heard the story.”
Jessup looked at her oddly. “You
have?”
Gryffine nodded. “The evening we first met. I was
with my mother at the Gypsun market that afternoon, and I heard an old raglady
telling it to a group of youths at one of the bonfires.”
“So you know how it
goes.”
She nodded again. “But I’m a woman. And my curse
didn’t start from touching some old bones.”
He shrugged. “Other than that… don’t you think the
story describes your situation perfectly?”
Gryffine lifted an
eyebrow.
“Come on.” Jessup pinched out the incense and
stood. “Let’s have dinner in the Gypsun Quarter. I’ll take you to Aeshe and then we
can find Rennet and talk to him about your manse.”
Gryffine took his proffered hand and stood, then
made for the outer door of the sepulcher. “This way. I’ll show you the backyard
before we go.”
They pushed through the heavy stone door and into
the sunlight, flooding down on what was turning out to be a perfect spring afternoon.
The air was moist and refreshing after the dry musk of the sepulcher, and Gryffine’s
mood lifted to the radiant sun and the bright-tempered man at her side. They shoved
the stone door shut and traipsed the gravel walk through the verge to the back porch.
She was already tripping up the steps with a much lighter heart when a small pull
came at her hand from Jessup.
“Hold on a tic. What’s
that?”
“What?” Gryffine glanced over, then followed his
gaze to a small fenced-off area with a wrought-iron railing that contained a fixture of
the manse she had come to accept as one of its many oddities. Inside the railing, upon
an extra side-swath of the stone back porch, sat an ancient wrought-iron coffin, its
vellum gone and the bones inside long turned to dust under the protection of the
gables and eaves. But as Gryffine glanced at it, she, too, noticed something about the
coffin that made the hair of her neck stand on end.
Within the confines of the wrought-iron, right where
a corpse’s chest would once have been, grew a single, perfect yellow day-flower,
nodding its sunburst head to the light spring breeze.
Gryffine blinked.
Jessup grinned at her. “Should I sneak through the
bars of the railing and go touch it?”
But a rush of alarm went through Gryffine just then,
and she hastily gripped Jessup’s arm, drawing him back. “No! Leave it
alone.”
“It’s just a day-flower. They probably grow there
every spring.”
Gryffine shook her head. “There have never been
any flowers there. Mother tried every spring to grow some. She hated the coffin but
was too superstitious to move it. She sprinkled lenou-seeds in the bone-dust, flush-
horn seeds, pennybright. Everything she could think of. Nothing ever
grew.
“Huh. Must have sprinkled day-flower seeds at some
point and one finally took.” But even Gryffine could tell that Jessup’s teasing tone
had gone to one of wary caution. “I’ll speak to Rennet about getting that whole thing
off the porch and putting it in the sepulcher where it
belongs.”
Gryffine swallowed and nodded. “That would be best,
I think.” She tore her eyes away from the nodding yellow flower and tugged him up
the porch, trying to put it from her mind.
~About the Author ~
Jean Lowe Carlson is a
writer of dark supernatural romance and epic fantasy fiction, but her novels vary
widely into dystopian fantasy and even into supernatural westerns with some erotic
content. Jean writes genre-bending and genderqueer fantasy, mixing a keen and gritty
blend of epic, romantic, erotic, dark, supernatural, and dystopian fantasy. Her sensual,
raw worlds remind one of Jacqueline Carey, Clive Barker’s Imajica, Anne Rice, and
Robin Hobb. Jean holds a doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine from Bastyr University
in Seattle, and as a doctor, she has a keen awareness of psychology, energy, nature,
and human behavior. She currently practices Esoteric Buddhism (tantra), yoga, Reiki,
and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Jean pulls from this knowledge to paint
vivid and emotionally complex characters, set amidst the broader scope of nations in
turmoil or societies with riveting secrets or supernatural elements. Not afraid of
exploring all kinds of relationships, including LGBTQ and BDSM, her novels are
exciting, passionate, challenging, and lush.
You can contact her at:
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dreads | B
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~ Other Books in This Series ~
ABOUT THE SERIES - Three Days of
Oblenite (3 novels)
This darkly romantic, gothic paranormal
fantasy series is rife with superstition, piety, and the devious nature of the mystic. The
three novels take place in a dark version of Victorian-era Paris, and feature three
characters cursed with the gifts of a dead saint. Swept up in the torturous
undercurrents of their desperate curses, their lives collide in desire, lust, power,
obsession, addiction, fervor, desperation, and death.
“Breath” features a young woman cursed to celibacy and unable to
find love because her kiss kills, all except one night a year.
“Tears” tells the story of a young man cursed to feel bliss when he is
whipped, and the religious conflict he feels as he finds himself in a relationship with
the man who brings him release.
While in “Blood”, a brilliant surgeon cursed with blood that heals
descends into a desperate underworld, addicted to working miracles. And in the seedy
Gypsun Quarter at the edge of the Saints Commons, there is no blessing that can save
those cursed to depravity, darkness, and permission. They can only save
themselves
Series: Three Days of Oblenite #2
Release Date: 4 May 2015
Summary:
Pious half-Gypsun Phillip d’Auvery is tortured. His soul is pledged to his god, but Phillip’s life has a darker aspect that drives him to the scourging lash of the Padrenne of Saint Sommes Cathedral year after year. For Phillip’s curse is a bliss that can only be found when pain smites him until tears are shed. His blissful curse alienates him until Phillip discovers a man who understands pain and power, the stern Oruthane d’Iver. As Phillip’s love for his dominant lover grows, the two are exposed, and danger begins to follow them. But there is no greater danger than the dark secret smoldering in Phillip’s heart, which will threaten everything dear to him.
Potential Triggers: intense BDSM with whips.
Pious half-Gypsun Phillip d’Auvery is tortured. His soul is pledged to his god, but Phillip’s life has a darker aspect that drives him to the scourging lash of the Padrenne of Saint Sommes Cathedral year after year. For Phillip’s curse is a bliss that can only be found when pain smites him until tears are shed. His blissful curse alienates him until Phillip discovers a man who understands pain and power, the stern Oruthane d’Iver. As Phillip’s love for his dominant lover grows, the two are exposed, and danger begins to follow them. But there is no greater danger than the dark secret smoldering in Phillip’s heart, which will threaten everything dear to him.
Potential Triggers: intense BDSM with whips.
Series: Three Days of Oblenite #3
Release Date: 26 June 2015
Summary:
Brilliant surgeon Aulen Gregoire discovers by an accident of fate that his blood causes patients to survive death. His ability to steal patients from death's clutches turns into obsession, and the blessing becomes a curse as his own vitality is ripped away, craving the bliss of saving lives like a drug. Unleashed like a howling creature, his vast addiction drags him down to the deadly blue lights of the city's most desperate, where Aulen becomes the Angelus of the Catacombs. And before his need is through, it will cost him everything; his position, friends, family, and his life.
Potential Triggers: male rape, sexual coercion
Brilliant surgeon Aulen Gregoire discovers by an accident of fate that his blood causes patients to survive death. His ability to steal patients from death's clutches turns into obsession, and the blessing becomes a curse as his own vitality is ripped away, craving the bliss of saving lives like a drug. Unleashed like a howling creature, his vast addiction drags him down to the deadly blue lights of the city's most desperate, where Aulen becomes the Angelus of the Catacombs. And before his need is through, it will cost him everything; his position, friends, family, and his life.
Potential Triggers: male rape, sexual coercion
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