Thursday, March 18, 2010

Demon Possessed by Stacia Kane

Demon Possessed, the third book in the Megan Chase series, finds Dr. Megan Chase still alive and kicking, barely. Someone is still trying to kill her!

In this installment, the FBI visit Megan at her psychology practice. They offer her immunity if she will give them the details of the upcoming meeting of demon leaders. Of course Megan denies any knowledge of such an event, but is absolutely attending, along with her steamy fire demon boyfriend, Greyson Dante.

Megan has been under a lot of pressure lately in the demon community. They want her to let the little piece of demon nestling beside her heart take over, a rite that will make Megan a demon and unhuman. Megan likes being human and doesn’t want to go through with it, but she may end up dead before the issue is resolved.

To make matters worse (and what could be worse than several attemps on your life?), a local preacher man is stealing Megan’s patients. He has them believing they are possessed by demons and only an exorcism will make them whole again. Megan is probably one of the only humans on the planet that can tell if a person is possessed, and her patients are not. Something isn’t right, and Megan and Greyson aim to prove it.

Demon Possessed is a fun romp of epic paranormal proportions. Witty, sexy, and fresh, Ms. Kane is stamping her mark on the paranormal and urban fantasy genre. I highly recommend it and I look forward to the next in this offbeat and charming fantasy! Don’t miss the first two books in the series, Personal Demons and Demon Inside.


I found this on Stacia's website and wanted to share - it's great!

Top Ten Signs a Book was written by Stacia

1. Third person. I’m not a fan of first person and don’t write in it. My romances are, of course, written from third omniscient, but my urban fantasy is strictly from the heroine’s POV (= Point of View).

2. Absent Families. Either they’re dead or they’re just a bunch of jerks, but not one heroine I’ve ever written has had a warm family relationship. Fathers often sell their kids out. Mothers are cruel and distant.

3. Everybody drinks like they’re trying to keep up with Dean Martin. And they drink all sorts of things. The heroes might have a preference for Scotch, but basically, if you show a bottle of booze to a character in one of my books they’ll drink it.

4. Twist endings. Not all of my books have them, but the large majority does. Either the villain’s motives aren’t what they seemed, or the guy we thought was the bad guy isn’t. Even if it isn’t a major plot point (it usually is), at some point we’re going to be surprised.

5. Smoking. Yeah, I know. Not everyone smokes, but enough people do that it’s safe to say if you pick up one of my books chances are somebody, some time, is going to smoke a cigarette.
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6. Smooth dialogue, everybody is smart. Nobody is stupid (at least nobody we’re supposed to like), not even the characters who never had an education. They may not know algebra but they have agile minds, and their dialogue tends to be quick and clean. At least I try to make it so; dialogue is a big issue for me.

7. Manners/the man pays. Oh, yes. My characters use each others’ last names regularly and often wait to be invited to use firsts. My men open doors, believe in “ladies first”, prepare drinks, and always pay for meals (unless the heroine specifically does the inviting.) They get a little anal about it, too, sometimes. Even my poor uneducated men know how to treat a lady, and that’s how they see them, too—as ladies.

8. Everybody has great sex. Like I said, my heroes believe in ladies first.

9. Heroes are dark/heroines are slim. Both personally and physically. I’m another one who just doesn’t find blond men terribly appealing as a rule, so my heroes have dark hair and dark eyes. Most of them have Deep Secrets too, or if they don’t they’re just plain criminals. Also, my heroines tend not to be curvy. They’re slim, small-breasted, probably not particularly tall, and average pretty.

10. Violence/stuff explodes/car chases/infernos. Oh how I love action. People in my books are always running, away from the crazy guy with the knife or the evil spirit they don’t yet know how to defeat. They’re in the car breaking laws as bad guys shoot at them or hordes or vampires chase them. Fire is everywhere. Houses catch fire, warehouses, corpses, heroes are fire demons who can burn stuff to a crisp just by thinking of it—now that I’m thinking of it, if something isn’t burning yet in one of my books it’s probably at least been foreshadowed. Just give it time. Everything burns.

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