My life can best be described as chaos. I have a full-time job, a family, and I’m also pursuing higher education so I’m a part-time student too. In addition to furthering my education, I signed myself off for work training to increase my chances of moving up the ranks in the company I work for. So, I feel like I have three full-time jobs instead of one. I’m constantly on the go, barely have time for myself, and I’m surviving on five to six hours of sleep every night. This doesn’t include any after-school activities the kids might have on a weekly basis, plus all the errands I usually run during the week.
Time management is my best friend right now. The only way I can keep track of everything is by keeping notes on my calendar and determining how many hours of training, homework, studying, and writing I can pull off in between work, family, and other responsibilities. It’s not easy by any means, but I don’t put too much thought into what needs to be done. I just do it. Because thinking about what I have to do becomes extremely overwhelming sometimes. I have an hour-long lunch break, and you’ll usually find me catching up on homework or writing after I inhale my lunch.
I don’t slow down much, but when I do it’ll be to just enjoy family time with the kids. We will play a board game or watch a movie and just enjoy each other’s company.
Rovena Silvex
Book One
Kristy Centeno
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Date of Publication: May 12, 2022
Number of pages: 441
Word Count: 128000
Cover Artist:Ammonia Book Covers
Book Description:
Her special abilities can save lives, but so can they kill.
Rovena Silvex has hunted and eliminated dozens of demons throughout the ten years since her initiation as a hunter. Possessing supernatural skills only makes her job a lot easier.
When she’s asked to visit the county morgue to look over a deceased victim and find out what demon killed him, the body rising from the dead is the last thing she expects.
Now Rovena is stuck with a walking corpse and no answers as to how he managed to return to the world of the living. However, the victim has changed and the more time she spends with him, the more she realizes that what crossed over might not have been the soul of the dead man but something much worse.
Complications arise when her new assignment is targeted by demons hell-bent on making sure he stays dead for good.
Killing demons has always been a piece of cake. Keeping one alive however, is a whole new ballgame for her. If she fails, she risks setting in motion a war between heaven and hell. But if she succeeds, she could trap a powerful Lord in a world he doesn’t belong in, forever.
Excerpt
Rovena reached out again, hoping
more contact would provide more insight. It didn’t happen often, but sometimes
she got another glimpse into the victim’s life when she prodded further. It was
the only tool she could make good use of now, and she was desperate enough for
answers to try again. Even if reliving his death was the last thing she wanted
to do. Or see.
She extended her fingers, dreading
touching the cold skin but determined to do it just the same.
A cool breeze behind her ceased her
progress. She froze with her fingers midway to their destination as goosebumps
broke across her skin. She whirled around, expecting to find someone or
something standing there.
The space behind her was empty.
Tiny tremors pulsated across her
palms. Not the usual response when a demon was nearby but an alarm that warned
her something otherworldly was at work.
Something otherworldly that she
couldn’t envision.
Thank the heavens for her built-in
danger detector. Not many in her field were blessed with the same, and hers
always came in handy, even if she couldn't always find what hunted in the
shadows.
The inability to see what had
momentarily entered the room suggested it wasn’t a demon. But whatever it was
had moved on as quickly as it appeared.
She turned back to the corpse in
front of her and nearly jumped out of her skin.
His eyes were wide open and staring
right at her.
What the actual fuck.
Rovena had seen some crazy shit in
her life, but this was bizarre even for her.
Fast as a cobra, he struck, aiming for her
throat. She had no time to react before his hand closed around her windpipe.
Glowing red eyes glared up at her while long, lean fingers tightened
dangerously around her neck. The man forced her back as he sat up and slid off
the gurney. The blanket covering the lower half of his body fluttered to the
floor and pooled at his feet. He stepped over it as he pushed her toward the
wall behind her, his grip narrowing as he moved.
Kristy Centeno loves to spin tales of creatures that go bump in the night, with a sprinkle of romance to top them off. Her passion for writing stems from a lifelong enjoyment of reading and the pleasure derived from the magical worlds created by authors like her. She prefers her female leads strong, independent, and stubborn who will stop at nothing to save their loved ones and protect those they care for.
Kristy currently resides in Pennsylvania with her five kids, a quartet of noisy parakeets, and a spoiled puppy. When she’s not working or writing, she juggles her free time between raising a handful of minions and pursuing other career goals.
2 comments:
Thank you for featuring my book.
Thank you for sharing your guest post, bio and book details, I appreciated you sharing the details of your busy life and remember the time when I was working three jobs (mom, student and employee, lol) Tale of a Body Thief sounds like a great story and I am looking forward to meeting Rovena
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