Her Avenging Angel (Her Angel #7) by Felicity Heaton-Review, Blog Tour & Giveaway

Her Avenging Angel (Her Angel #7) by Felicity Heaton-Review, Blog Tour and Giveaway

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Her Avenging Angel
Her Angel #7
by Felicity Heaton
Genre: adult, contemporary, paranormal, fantasy, romance
Release Date: October 11, 2014

Her Avenging Angel

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Once a proud angel of Heaven, Nevar is now a servant of Hell, bound to a new master—the King of Demons. Consumed by darkness and driven to seek revenge, he set in motion a series of events that awakened the Great Destroyer, a force that will bring about the apocalypse. Now, he is the creature’s master and the fate of our world rests in the hands of an angel with only darkness in his heart.

Lost in the mortal realm without any recollection of how she came to be there, Lysia is only aware that she has survived a great battle. When she stumbles into a demon bar, she finds more than a chance to discover what happened to her—she finds a dark and deadly angel warrior who stirs fire in her veins and awakens soul-searing passion she cannot deny.

With the mounting threat of the Great Destroyer, the forces of Heaven and Hell against him, and a band of dangerous angels intent on capturing Lysia on his heels, can Nevar protect the beautiful woman who is light to his darkness and find the strength to save the world?

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REVIEW: HER AVENGING ANGEL is the seventh installment in Felicity Heaton’s adult, paranormal/fantasy Her Angel romance series focusing on the angels, fallen angels and demons from Heaven and Hell. This is former angel, and servant of Hell Nevar and Lysia’s storyline. Told from third person point of view, Her Avenging Angel can be read as a stand alone but for cohesion and detail it would be best to read the series in order. Felicity Heaton does an amazing job revealing background detail and information about the series and our hero, throughout Her Avenging Angel.

The focus of the story is on former angel Nevar who has been assigned as the guardian and Master of the Great Destroyer. When Nevar escapes to the human realm in search of food, he will meet a demon-a woman known only as Lysia-who calls to his soul. She is lost, without memory of who she is or from where she came. When Nevar is pulled back into Hell by his demon master Asmodeus he will discover the Great Destroyer has risen. Along with Asmodeus, and Alysia, Nevar goes in search of the beast thought to bring about the next apocalypse.

There is an immediate attraction between Lysia and Nevar, one brought about but a common language and need for blood. Nevar is protective of Lysia and guards her with his life, not quite understanding the pull towards the small but powerful female demon. It is only when four of Heaven’s most powerful angels demand Lysia’s imprisonment does Nevar realize whom it is that calls to his heart.

The world building continues as the search for the Great Destroyer continues throughout the series as well as the battles between Heaven and Hell; demons and angels. There is a reason that Hell is so filled with fallen Angels as the disposition and temperaments between good and evil are not dissimilar. The secondary characters include many of the previous storyline couples who come to Nevar’s aid. Nevar believed that when the dark side claimed his soul, he lost the love and friendship of all of his former friends and angels. With the inclusion of the previous storyline characters there is familiarity, cohesion and comaraderie to the flow of the story.

HER ANGEL series by Felicity Heaton takes an intimate look at Heaven and Hell; where angels fall in love with demons; where demons are tamed by emotions and love. Each of the storylines focuses on the impending war between good and evil, searching for a way to prevent the end -an apocalypse of epic proportion. There is action, suspense, mystery, romance and love. Each couple is matched together; their powers compliment one another; and in the end, love does conquer all.

Felicity Heaton blends mythology with Heaven’s fallen angels and Hell’s demonic possessions. But when the dark finds the light; when soul mates collide there is little to stop the impending crush of emotions and love. HER ANGEL series is passionate, breathtaking, imaginative and compelling. Everyone has a dark side-some more dark than others.

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Reviewed by Sandy

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Her Avenging Angel is available from Amazon Kindle, Kobo Books, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBooks stores and other retailers. Also available in paperback.

 Find all the links, a fantastic 6 chapter downloadable sample of the book, and also how to enter the giveaway and be in with a shot of winning a $75, $50 or $25 gift certificate at her website: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/her-avenging-angel-romance-book.php

Books in the Her Angel paranormal romance series:

Book 1: Her Dark AngelFREE in ebook at selected retailers

Book 2: Her Fallen Angel

Book 3: Her Warrior Angel

Book 4: Her Guardian Angel

Book 5: Her Demonic Angel

Book 6: Her Wicked Angel

Book 7: Her Avenging Angel

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It had been twenty-seven days, give or take a few, since Nevar’s master had bothered to show up for his duty and relieve him, taking his place outside the crystal chamber in which the Great Destroyer slumbered, deep in the bowels of the Devil’s fortress in Hell.

A destroyer that Nevar had awoken by spilling Asmodeus’s and Liora’s blood in the very chamber he now guarded, and had become the creature’s master, much to the annoyance of the Devil.

Twenty-seven days of mind-numbing silence and boredom.

Nevar was going out of his head.

Or at least more out of it than normal.

He was feeling honest enough with himself today to admit that he might have been out of his head before the guard duty had started, but doing such a thing was dangerous.

The darkness within him spread tendrils outwards, filling his mind with vicious hissed words that goaded him into finding Asmodeus, the wretched angel who had turned him into a monster, and satisfying his soul-deep hunger to make the bastard pay.

Nevar closed his eyes and practiced his breathing, filling his lungs from the bottom up and counting slowly to five on each long inhale through his nose and five again on each exhale out of his mouth. Liora had taught him it as a method of regaining control of himself and quashing his darker urges whenever they came upon him. It had been step one in his rehabilitation programme—taking control. He was still working on step two—taking responsibility.

He drew another deep breath and shut out the coaxing voice and the other one that liked to mock him.

Once a proud guardian angel serving Heaven and the protector of Erin.

Now a loathsome creature forced into a contract with an evil angel, filled with darkness and an endless unstoppable hunger for violence, and cursed with an unquenchable thirst for blood.

Euphoria addict.

Recovering alcoholic.

Whore.

Bastard.

The worst part was that he couldn’t even bring himself to lay the blame squarely on Asmodeus’s shoulders. Some of it kept slipping off and landing back on his. He had been the one who had sought the sorceress and asked her to inscribe the spell on his shoulders that gave him control over his wings, and more control over his own body, making it difficult for Asmodeus to command him and force his compliance.

He had been the one to repay that sorceress by fulfilling the dark urge to kill her.

And she had repaid him by cursing him with her dying breath to feel an overpowering, never-ending craving for blood.

He had been the one who had sought a way of escaping the haunting memories of all the mortals and angels he had brutally slain whenever the darkness growing within him had seized control.

That escape had come in the form of sweet oblivion, delivered to him by Euphoria, a potent cocktail of alcohol, demon toxin and blood designed with enslaving mortals in mind and giving them a high that would make them forget every wicked thing they did while temporarily under its influence.

Demon toxin was fatal to angels.

When it had only made him high, giving him the beautiful escape he had craved and couldn’t find in alcohol alone, he had realised that he was no longer an angel.

And he had thrown himself head first into a downward spiral of Euphoria, screwing every demon female who offered it to him in exchange for sex. In hurling himself into that addiction, he had blurred the line between the evil and the good within him. He had embraced the darkness and bore the evidence of it on his body in the form of permanent claws and black skin up to his elbows and his knees, a sliver of his other side shining through.

Oh how the mighty had fallen.

He hadn’t quite hit rock bottom at that point though. No. He had stepped a little closer to rock bottom when Veiron, a Hell’s angel now married to Nevar’s former ward, Erin, had found him in a grotty bathroom banging a demon in exchange for a fix, and had taken it upon himself to save him. When Nevar had found himself pinned to the floor of that bathroom, in a pool of the demon bitch’s blood, he hadn’t been able to stop himself from licking it off the grimy tiles.

He had finally hit rock bottom when he had decided to discover Asmodeus’s weakness and exploit it, and had abducted the woman his master had been falling in love with, Liora, and handed the witch over to the Devil. No questions asked.

And then when Asmodeus had been about to save her from the very chamber at Nevar’s back, he had snuck in like a shadow and tried to kill the bastard.

Liora had attempted to shield Asmodeus. Nevar had skewered both of them on the sword.

Their combined blood spilling in the chamber and soaking into the crystal had been the key to unlocking the prison of the Great Destroyer, and because his hand had spilled it, Nevar was now the creature’s master.

He sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose.

Liora would be proud of him.

Seven months of rehab and he had finally admitted that Asmodeus had started the ball rolling when he had forced a contract between them, but Nevar had kept on pushing the damn thing until it had picked up enough speed to do some real damage.

Damage being a nice way of saying that he had probably brought about the end of the world.

Nevar tipped his head back and stared into the darkness. Golden light from the two torches on the wall behind him, one either side of the broad door, held by gilded dragon bones, flickered across the ceiling. How many times had he lost himself in following the shifting ribbons of light? It was up there with his other favourite form of entertainment.

He turned around to face the huge black stone door.

His jade gaze slowly took in every inch of the carved surface that was now imprinted on his memory. It depicted dragons roaming the landscape of Hell in the upper portion of the door and a monster far larger than they were ravaging lands in the central section. That gigantic beast devoured mortal, demon and angel alike.

He ran his fingers over the beast to the figure of an angel being crushed under its front left foot and then drifted them back up to the other figure it clutched in the claws of its right.

The Great Destroyer.

He wasn’t sure what would happen when it finally rose from its slumber, or what his role was when it emerged, but he was sure it would be a hell of a lot more interesting than his current situation.

Would it be such a bad thing if it awakened?

The thought of standing guard in the cramped black antechamber for decades, centuries or more was an unwelcome one. He would rather the world went to Hell now than he be put through another month of loitering outside the chamber, alone and bored.

And tired.

Unlike his master, Hell wasn’t his home, and when an angel wasn’t in their natural environment, they had to eat and sleep.

Asmodeus never seemed to take that into account, or perhaps he did. Perhaps his wretched master was in his fortress halfway across Hell laughing about the fact that he was here starving to death and about ready to gnaw his arm off. Nevar resisted the urge to sink his fangs into his lower lip. It wouldn’t appease his hunger or do him any good. He couldn’t survive on his own blood. He had been living for the past seven months on regular doses of Asmodeus’s blood.

Saliva pooled in his mouth at just the thought of sinking his fangs into his master’s arm and sucking down his rich, thick blood.

Wonderful. Asmodeus and Liora’s fantastic rehab plan had now turned him into some sort of Pavlov’s dog, salivating at only the idea of being allowed to drink from his master.

He sighed again and traced his fingers down the ridged back of the beast carved on the door.

Maybe there was a reason Asmodeus had left him here alone for almost a full month.

Liora had told Nevar that now he had been weaned off demon blood, the next step was to wean him off blood entirely.

It would be typical of the bastard angel to decide the best way to do that was to ditch him here at the chamber and leave him for a month, knowing he was under orders not to leave it unguarded.

Did Liora know what her male was doing? He doubted the pretty little witch would approve of such a move.

Whenever Nevar had been at their fortress, watching her and Asmodeus attempting to rebuild it, she had stuffed him full of mortal food, telling him that he needed to keep his strength up. Of course, Asmodeus glared at him whenever the witch fussed over him, and Nevar had repaid him by drinking up her attention and coaxing her into giving him more of it, stealing it away from Asmodeus.

The mark on his chest pulsed, fire flashing over it, and his fingers tensed against the hindquarters of the beast on the door.

He growled and mentally commanded the breastplate and back plate of his violet-edged black armour to disappear, revealing his bare chest. Purple light traced over the circular mark directly over his heart. The size of his palm, it depicted a serpentine beast with a reptilian head armed with sharp fangs and six curved horns. Wings followed the sweeping arc of its scaly body and its barbed tail. In the centre of the mark, clutched in the dragon’s claws, was a perfect replica of Liora’s pentagram—the one he had destroyed.

The dragon’s wings shifted and he ground his teeth against the fiery pain that blazed like lightning across his pectorals in response. He pressed his hand to the mark, breathing through the agony, using the same technique he employed when trying to retain control.

The beast settled and his heart settled with it, slowing back to a normal rhythm.

It wasn’t the first time the mark had shifted. It moved from time to time, as if it was as restless as he was.

Nevar kept his hand over the mark and placed his other one on the carving on the door that was a perfect match. The Great Destroyer.

Would it be such a bad thing if it awakened?

He could fight it or control it or something as its master.

It would beat the hell out of guard duty.

 

 

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Felicity HeatonFelicity Heaton is a New York Times and USA Today international best-selling author writing passionate paranormal romance books. In her books, she creates detailed worlds, twisting plots, mind-blowing action, intense emotion and heart-stopping romances with leading men that vary from dark deadly vampires to sexy shape-shifters and wicked werewolves, to sinful angels and hot demons! If you’re a fan of paranormal romance authors Lara Adrian, J R Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Gena Showalter and Christine Feehan then you will enjoy her books too.

If you love your angels a little dark and wicked, the best-selling Her Angel series is for you. If you like strong, powerful, and dark vampires then try the Vampires Realm series or any of her stand-alone vampire romance books. If you’re looking for vampire romances that are sinful, passionate and erotic then try the best-selling Vampire Erotic Theatre series. Or if you prefer huge detailed worlds filled with hot-blooded alpha males in every species, from elves to demons to dragons to shifters and angels, then take a look at the new Her Angel series.

If you want to know more about Felicity, or want to get in touch, you can find her at the following places:

Website: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk

Blog: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/blog/

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Her Wicked Angel by Felicity E. Heaton-Blog Tour, Interview and Giveaway

Her Wicked Angel by Felicity E. Heaton-Blog Tour, Interview and Giveaway

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Her Wicked Angel
Her Angel #6
by Felicity E. Heaton
Release Date: September 21, 2013
Genre: Paranormal, Romance

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The King of Demons and the Devil’s right hand man, Asmodeus is a dark angel born of evil and created for destruction. When his master orders him to venture into the mortal world and retrieve a female for him, he seizes the chance to leave Hell for the first time, uncaring of what the Devil has planned for her… until he sets eyes on the most beautiful woman he has ever seen—a female who awakens new feelings within his black heart, unleashing passion so intense that it controls him and desire he cannot resist.

He will not let his wretched master have her. She will belong to him.

Liora is a witch with a bad reputation and an obsession with fighting demons. A mission gone wrong sees her sent to Paris to cool off, but when a dark and deadly warrior with a gaze of golden fire lands in her life, she ends up burning hotter than Hell for the wicked angel. Nothing will stand between her and the immense, forbidding male. Not her cousin. Not Asmodeus’s sworn enemy and twin, Apollyon. And certainly not the Devil.

Caught up in a tempest of danger and soul-searing passion, can they survive against the odds and seize their forever after?

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Felicity HeatonTRC: Hi Felicity and welcome to The Reading Café. Congratulations on the release of Her Wicked Angel.

Felicity: Thanks for having me here.

TRC: We would like to start with some background information. Would you please tell us something about yourself?

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Felicity: Sure I can. I’m a paranormal romance writer, although I do also dabble in science fiction romance. I’ve been writing since 2005, and went indie in 2006, before all the cool kids were doing it. I’ve written over forty-five books in my career as a writer, and around forty of those are still available. I love to write passionate paranormal romances, with high-octane action, intense emotion, and heroes who will make your toes curl!

At the moment, I have two major series on the go and one I completed this year, and I have another series about to begin in December. The completed series is the Vampire Erotic Theatre series, with the delicious heroes of Vampirerotique, London’s premier naughty theatre for vampires. The ongoing series are the Her Angel series with my take on sexy passionate angels determined to protect their women from a terrible game between Heaven and Hell, and the Vampires Realm series I write as F E Heaton, which is packed with twisting plots, vampires to die for, and is a huge world encompassing ten books at present.

Her Wicked AngelTRC: HER WICKED ANGEL is the September 2013 release in the Her Angel series. Would you please tell us something about the premise?

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Felicity: Her Wicked Angel is the sixth book in my popular Her Angel paranormal romance series. It’s about Asmodeus, the wicked King of Demons and the Devil’s right hand man. He’s an angel born for destruction and evil, but beneath his cold and often cruel exterior there is a glimmer of good, a seed that he hides from his master and the three realms (Heaven, Hell and the Mortal realms) because in his world, good is a weakness.

When he is sent to the mortal world to retrieve a female for the Devil and sets eyes on the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen, a woman who challenges him at every turn and seems to have a mystical power over him, that sliver of good begins to grow and he realizes that he can’t let his master have her… because he wants her for himself.

Liora is a witch and has always known that angels existed, but she never thought she would meet Asmodeus. The glowering dark angel warrior with his black wings and golden eyes makes her burn hotter than Hell itself and she can’t resist the fierce attraction that blazes between them. He’s dangerous and deadly… and he might just be her only hope for survival.

TRC: The last three books appear to building up for a war within the series. Would you please tell us whose storyline is next and which direction will the story take?

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Felicity: I can admit that the next novel will feature Nevar as the hero and that it is going to be epic, but can’t say much more than that without giving away huge spoilers for both his book and for Her Wicked Angel. Nevar is very much an angel on the brink. He’s been through a lot since his first appearance in the fifth book in the series, Her Demonic Angel, and in his book, he’s going to have to come to terms with some things about himself and learn to deal with them, and in turn become more like the man he used to be.

TRC: What challenges or difficulties (research, logistics, historical, theological etc) did you encounter writing this particular series?

Felicity: I had a great time coming up with the series and didn’t really have any problems at all. It all sort of took shape during my regular walks to work when I was employed in London.

I was walking to work one morning and questioning a plot idea I had been writing down notes for. It was a vampire romance at the time but I wanted to see how I could make it different, and then for some reason I decided to see if it would work better with angels rather than vampires as the protagonists. It would. Because I started thinking about angels for that story, I started thinking about them in general too, and what it would be like to have an angel series where the angels weren’t all fallen and were still working for a higher power, but while they were messengers of God, they were their own beings too, able to make their own decisions and pursue their own passions without castigation. They’re all male and they’re passionate, frivolous at times, and like to bend the rules as much as they can without breaking the ones still in place, and they’re curious about anything that was previously forbidden, such as alcohol and other things, just like a human would be.

I wanted the first angel I introduced to straddle the line between good and bad. I wanted him to be dark, powerful, and alluring. I started to research angels and look for names for this hero forming in my head, and I came across Apollyon. There’s some debate about whether Apollyon is an angel or another name for the Devil. Either way, he’s cited as being the “Great Destroyer” and “King of the Bottomless Pit”. I thought he would be perfect as the hero I had wanted to write, and Her Dark Angel began to take shape in my mind and the series formed with it.

TRC: Have you ever had negative comments regarding the theological direction of Her Angel series?

Felicity: Never. Readers from around the world love the series and I’ve never had a negative comment about it from any of them. I had been concerned about it at first, and especially when Her Guardian Angel came out as that was all about an eternal game between Heaven and Hell, and let’s just say that good and evil isn’t white and black in that game. Both sides do some terrible things. The first three books have been translated into Spanish by a large publishing house there and have been well received, which really surprised me given that it’s a very religious country.

TRC: If you could virtually cast the leading characters in the series, which models, rock stars or actors would be represent your projected image?

Felicity: Someone once suggested that Bradley Cooper could play Apollyon and for some reason that has stuck in my head and every time I see him in a movie (especially if he has longer hair), I just see Apollyon. Other than that, I can’t honestly think of anyone I would cast in the roles of the characters. I’ve always said that if someone made a movie of any of my books, I’d want to cast people who really looked like the characters, and that would probably mean a lot of unknown or little known actors.

UnleashTRC: UNLEASH was the sixth instalment (May 2013) in your Vampire Erotic Theater. Would you please tell us something about the storyline?

Felicity: Unleash featured a very popular hero of mine, Snow. I don’t think I’ve ever written a hero who has captured as many hearts as he did from the very moment he burst onto the scene in the first book in the series, Covet.

Unleash begins with Snow in a bad place because of his bloodlust, a terrible affliction that means he loses control and he has to chain himself in order to protect others from his thirst for violence and bloodshed. He receives a visit from someone while he’s in the grip of his bloodlust and is roused by her singing to him, but she remains a mystery at first. When she reveals herself, Snow is enchanted by the beautiful, mysterious female. She awakens his protective streak and stirs dark desires to claim her as his female, even though he knows that he will ruin her if he does.

Aurora is tied to Snow, and has been since an event long in both of their pasts. When she sees him losing himself to his bloodlust, she breaks the rules to come to him and aid him, guiding him out of the darkness, but she can’t resist returning to him even when she knows she mustn’t. It takes a single forbidden kiss to unleash emotions she shouldn’t possess, leaving her torn between duty and desire… and then it’s a race against time to save Snow’s soul and maybe her own in the process.

TRC: Do you have any plans to continue this series? Novellas? Re-visits?

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Felicity: There’s a new series in the works that is set in the same world as the Vampire Erotic Theatre series. The Eternal Mates series is set in the wider world that Vampirerotique is only a tiny part of and features all kinds of paranormal species—from demons and witches, to dark elves, shifters, vampires and fae—as well as a demon hunting organisation. I will be releasing the first book in the series, Kissed by a Dark Prince, in December 2013 and the second book, Claimed by a Demon King, in early 2014. Both of those books will feature cameos by heroes and heroines from the Vampire Erotic Theatre series.

TRC: When writing a storyline, do the characters direct the writing or do you direct the characters?

Felicity: The characters always direct the story. I try to rein them in at times and make them conform to the plan we laid out, but sometimes they will go off on a tangent and I sit back and let them play.

TRC: Are you a plotter or a pantster?

Felicity: A plotter. I write outlines for all of my books, compiled from all the notes / scenes I’ve written down while working on other stories and then filling in the gaps. The outline for my current WIP is around 25,000 words! That just shows you how serious I am about plotting before writing. It really helps me work in any plot twists and misdirection if I plan it all out in advance.

TRC: Has there ever been one of your characters that you would have liked to re-written, perhaps change up the personality or characteristics-good or bad?

Felicity: None. I love all my characters and I wouldn’t change any of them.

TRC: Many authors bounce ideas and information with other authors or friends and family. With whom do you bounce ideas?

Felicity: Sometimes I bounce ideas off a fellow author who writes as Alexandra Marell / C A Nicks, and my husband is always there for those long sessions where I try to tie his brain into knots by talking about whatever series I’m writing at the time… I like to watch his eyes slowly glaze over and then give him a pop quiz at the end.

TRC: The mark of a good writer is to pull the reader into the storyline so that they experience the emotions along with the characters. What do you believe a writer must do to make this happen? Where do you believe writers fail in this endeavor?

Felicity: This is all about creating believable characters that readers can relate to and feel something for. I tend to do what I call “method writing” where I live the emotions my characters are experiencing at whatever given point I’m at in the book. I really pour emotion into my stories and craft characters in such a way that they’re imperfect, have pain in their past, and things they need to overcome. I feel with them. Laugh with them. Cry with them. When I’m writing a scene that is tearing them apart inside, then I’m feeling that too. I often cry when writing scenes in books and I’m not afraid to do very bad things to characters in order to pack a real emotional punch into the book. With Unleash, I cried every time I read certain scenes too, which was a first for me.

TRC: How do you keep the plot unpredictable without sacrificing content and believability?

Felicity: This is where writing an outline comes into play so beautifully. I can play with misdirection and layer in clues and hints, and lead readers on false trails. It’s all about those drip-fed clues and then a big reveal. Because I write paranormal romance, I can get away with some pretty big twists without sacrificing believability. It just sort of happens in a smooth manner that ties everything together and suddenly things make sense to the reader.

TRC: How do you handle the pressures and anxiety of deadlines?

Felicity: Not very well. I do my best to have a very clear schedule, complete with a wall planner in combination with one very busy diary, and also another calendar in a spreadsheet for my writing schedule, AND a series of Google calendars that tell me all the guest posts / interviews / giveaways / cover reveals / etc that I’m doing. My schedule is always hectic. My diary is always full. Each day is packed with everything I have to do—writing, guest blogging / tour posts, interviews, blogging, promotion, work on upcoming tours/cover reveals and work for current events like those, plus so much more. Sometimes the pressure can become too much and I just have to accept that I’ve tried to push myself too hard. It’s very easy to be unrealistic with deadlines but I’m trying to get better at allowing enough time.

TRC: If you could be a contestant on a reality television program, which program would you chose and why?

Felicity: I’m going to admit now that I really don’t watch reality TV. I can’t even think of a program name.

TRC: On what are you currently working?

Felicity: I’m currently working on Claimed by a Demon King, which will be the second book in the Eternal Mates series. After that, I’ll be working on the first Guardians of Hades book.

TRC: Would you like to add anything else?

Felicity: Only that it was great to be here today and I hope readers will check out the rest of the Her Wicked Angel tour, and that they can visit my website to learn more about the series and download long samples of the books.

Readers can learn more about the Her Angel series at: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/ebookseries.php?series=Her%20Angel

Readers can follow the tour (and enter the grand giveaway) at: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/her-wicked-angel-book-tour.php

FREE EBOOK: Want to get a free taste of this series? You can download the first book, Her Dark Angel, for free at selected ebook stores (and two other free paranormal romance ebooks too). Find all the links at: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/paranormal-romance-ebook-offers.php

LIGHTNING ROUND

Favorite Food – Anything with cinnamon in it.

Favorite DessertAnything with cinnamon in it – yes, I love it that much.

Favorite TV Show – Several… The Vampire Diaries, Game of Thrones, Agents of SHIELD (so far), Once Upon a Time, Lost Girl… the list goes on.

Last Movie You Saw – In the cinema, it was White House Down. At home, it was a really terrible sci-fi rom-com called Earthbound that I would like to erase from my memory.

Dark or Milk Chocolate – Dark all the way!

Favorite Flower – Purple and white tulips.

Last Vacation Destination – The wilds of Scotland, but that was a family visit. Last non-family visit was Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Pet Peeve – When people spell piqued wrong (and other words).

Secret Celebrity Crush – Hugh Jackman and Chris Hemsworth all the way!

Thank you Felicity for taking the time to answer our questions. Congratulations on the release of Her Wicked Angel and Unleash. We wish you all the best.

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Be sure to follow this fantastic tour to learn more about the passionate heroes and sassy heroines! You can also find yourself in with a chance to WIN a $50 or $25 Amazon Gift Certificate if you follow the tour. More details, including how to enter and a full list of stops, are available at the Her Wicked Angel Virtual Book Tour page: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/her-wicked-angel-book-tour.php

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All of the books so far in the series are available in paperback, and in ebook from Amazon Kindle, Apple iBooks, Kobo and Barnes and Noble. Excerpts are available for all of the current releases in the series, so you can get a taste of these paranormal romances.

Read more about Her Wicked Angel below, and visit my site for links to all the retailers and a 6 chapter excerpt:

Her Wicked Angel (Her Angel Romance Series Book 6)
by Felicity Heaton
Books in the Her Angel romance series:

Her Dark Angel (Her Angel romance series book 1)

Her Fallen Angel (Her Angel romance series book 2)

Her Warrior Angel (Her Angel romance series book 3)

Her Guardian Angel (Her Angel romance series book 4)

Her Demonic Angel (Her Angel romance series book 5)

Her Wicked Angel (Her Angel romance series book 6)

Find out more about the Her Angel series at Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/series/54822-her-angel

About Felicity Heaton:

Felicity Heaton writes passionate paranormal romance books as Felicity Heaton and F E Heaton. In her books she creates detailed worlds, twisting plots, mind-blowing action, intense emotion and heart-stopping romances with leading men that vary from dark deadly vampires to sexy shape-shifters and wicked werewolves, to sinful angels and hot demons!

If you’re a fan of paranormal romance authors Lara Adrian, J R Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Gena Showalter and Christine Feehan then you will enjoy her books too.

If you love your angels a little dark and wicked, Felicity Heaton’s best selling Her Angel series is for you. If you like strong, powerful, and dark vampires then try the Vampires Realm series she writes as F E Heaton or any of her stand alone vampire romance books she writes as Felicity Heaton. Or if you’re looking for vampire romances that are sinful, passionate and erotic then try Felicity Heaton’s new Vampire Erotic Theatre series.

In 2011, five of her six paranormal romance books received Top Pick awards from Night Owl Reviews, Forbidden Blood was nominated as Best PNR Vampire Romance 2011 at The Romance Reviews, and many of her releases received five star reviews from numerous websites.

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