Why
I Love Paranormal Romance
In honor of my recent release, Blood of the Demon, a
paranormal romance featuring four sexy, half-demon brothers, I
thought I’d talk today about some of the reasons why I love
paranormal romance.
I've been fascinated with the paranormal ever since my childhood
days of watching reruns of The Munsters on television. Tales
of vampires, werewolves, and witches thrilled me almost as much as
they terrified me. Even better were the less traditional horror
baddies like mummies, trolls, or goblin kings. There was something so
fun about being able to pretend that these beings actually existed.
That childhood fascination never died off for me. In the 80s it was
movies like The Lost Boys and Labyrinth. In the 90s
Ghost and The Mummy (still one of my all-time favorites).
I also loved the paranormal in books, going from Bunnicula to
Ann Rice (and yes, I know what a big jump that is).
Then I discovered romance, and a whole new love was born. Paranormal
creatures as heroes instead of villains? Swoon! I’ve been addicted
ever since. There’s something about taking a tortured supernatural
hero and giving him a HEA that I cannot resist. Maybe it’s the idea
that every being needs love—or the thought of everlasting love—that
makes this concept so irresistible to me. Whatever it is, my love for
paranormal romance (like so many of the genre’s heroes and
heroines) will not die.
I discover new and wonderful paranormal romance authors all the time,
but some of my current favorite are Jeaniene Frost (especially her
Night Huntress series, which features the most swoon-worthy hero I’ve
ever read about), Karen Marie Moning (her earlier Highlander series,
has some super-hunky Alpha heroes), and Larissa Ione (hot demons
running a demon hospital).
It
was my love of demons as heroes that led me to create my DEMONS OF
INFERNUM series. The demons in my world aren’t evil creatures from
Hell, but a race of beings from another dimension. And let me tell
you, they are super hot!
In
Blood of the Demon, Keegan lives to exact revenge on the evil
demon who sired and abused him. When his father devises a plan to
bring on the apocalypse, he and his three half-brothers,
interdimensional bounty hunters for the Elden Council, are charged
with capturing and delivering their father for punishment.
Art
gallery owner Brynn Meyers has no idea that her ability to read
memories embedded in objects and drain people of their life force
means she has demon ancestry. Unfortunately for Brynn, she’s also
the key to raising an ancient zombie army, which puts her on every
demon’s Most Wanted List.
And
no one wants her more than Keegan’s father.
Keegan
must protect Brynn from his father by any means necessary, but he’ll
have to learn to harness the other half of his genetics—the far
deadlier, uncontrollable half—when he starts to fall for the one
woman standing between him and the vengeance he so desperately seeks.
The one woman he’ll never be able to resist.
Find out more at
http://www.entangledpublishing.com/blood-of-the-demon
or at my website www.rosalielario.com.
Are
you a fan of paranormal romance? If so, what makes it so great for
you?
Rosalie Lario practiced law for five
years before finally admitting to herself that negotiating contracts
wasn’t nearly as fun as dreaming
up stories. The first book in her Demons of Infernum
series, Blood
of the Demon, will be released August 2011.
