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Please welcome my guest, Carmen Stefanescu, with the cover reveal for her upcoming release, Till Life Do Us Part.

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Linda, thank you so much for having me as your guest today. You know my interest in anything odd – paranormal, myths, legends – all that is out of the normal boundaries. Reincarnation and chat with ghosts can be included, too.

I’m thrilled to be here, and excited to share the cover for my upcoming release.

Till Life Do Us Part
Publisher: Solstice Publishing
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Magic, Reincarnation, Mystery, Suspense
Release date: 9th June 2016

Blurb:

Barbara Heyer can hear voices of dead people. They whisper of their deaths, seek comfort for those left behind, and occasionally even warn her about future events. But when Barbara’s brother, Colin, is accused of murder, it will take more than her gift to prove his innocence.

Becoming smitten with the handsome investigator, Detective Patrick Fischer, is a serious complication given his assignment to her brother’s case. Barbara senses there is something far deeper—and perhaps much older—than the surface attraction between them. Could that be why she’s visited by a mysterious woman named Emma in her dreams? Could past life regression tie all the seemingly unconnected events together?

Barbara and Patrick must overcome heartache to find the truth to save Colin, and perhaps themselves.

Author Bio:

Carmen Stefanescu resides in Romania, the native country of the infamous vampire Count Dracula, but where, for about 50 years of communist dictatorship, just speaking about God, faith, reincarnation or paranormal phenomena could have led someone to great trouble – the psychiatric hospital if not to prison.

Teacher of English and German in her native country and mother of two daughters, Carmen Stefanescu survived the grim years of oppression, by escaping in a parallel world that of the books.

She has dreamed all her life to become a writer, but many of the things she wrote during those years remained just drawer projects. The fall of the Ceausescu regime in 1989 and the opening of the country to the world meant a new beginning for her. She started publishing. Several of her poems were successfully published in a collection of Contemporary English Poems, Muse Whispers vol.1 and Muse Whispers vol.2 by Midnight Edition Publication, in 2001 and 2002.

Her first novel, Shadows of the Past, was released in 2012 by Wild Child Publishing, USA.

Carmen joined the volunteer staff at Marketing For Romance Writers Author blog and is the coordinator of #Thursday13 posts.

You can stalk the author here:
Blog: http://shadowspastmystery.blogspot.ro/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Carmen_Books
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/carmens007/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Carmen-Stefanescu-Books/499245716760283
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6624397.Carmen_Stefanescu
Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/117216040843648957646/posts
Follow Carmen at her Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/Carmen-Stefanescu/e/B00APVDGAA/

Good luck with your new release, Carmen. It sounds fascinating. I love a good reincarnation story!

One of my favorite period TV series, Turn: Washington’s Spies, is starting season three this week, so Philadelphia seemed like a good topic for today’s Tuesday Travels. The series focuses on George Washington’s use of various spy rings to gain intelligence about the movements of the British army. Most of season one focused on New York and Long Island and the Culper spy ring, one of the most successful of the war effort. But in season two, some of the action moved to Philadelphia.

18th century Philadelphia town houses

I spent a week in Philadelphia some years ago, just as I was beginning to write romance fiction, and I fell in love with the historic area of the city. I learned how Washington’s spy master, Major Benjamin Tallmadge, arrived in Philly ahead of the British invasion to set spy rings in place, in the event the city was captured, as it was in Sept. 1777. This incident became the basis for my first attempt at writing a historical romance. Like most first novels, it will never see the light of day, but I still love this period.

Independence Hall

Philadelphia was the capital of the fledgling United States, so it was a tempting target for the British. The Continental Congress met at the State House, later dubbed Independence Hall. During the occupation, the British used upper floors of the State House as a prison for captured Continentals. The British soldiers were quartered in private homes, one of the practices mentioned in the list of complaints in the Declaration of Independence.

The Declaration of Independence and Constitution were debated and signed in this room.

If you ever have a chance to visit Philadelphia, don’t miss seeing the Liberty Bell.

Has anyone else been watching Turn? If so, what do you think of the show?

Linda McLaughlin/Lyndi Lamont

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