Please welcome Daniel and Natalie-Nicole
Bates
Natalie-Nicole
interview Daniel Tremont from SEE ME
I’m thrilled to send some time with Daniel Tremont, hero of my
new paranormal romance, SEE ME, available from Leap of Faith Publishing.
NNB:
Daniel, it’s rumoured that you have eternal life. Can you tell me how this
happened exactly?
DT:
A long time ago, 1896, I was the unfortunate victim of a lumber mill fire—I was
burned beyond recognition. I don’t really remember much except for waking up on
an embalming table with the most beautiful brown eyes staring down at me.
That’s only the beginning of it all, though.
NNB:
Did you recognize these beautiful brown eyes?
DT:
Of course, it was Charlotte Hopkins, daughter of the local undertaker. She was
more than just a beautiful pair of brown eyes, she was…magic. What she did for
me that day, was love.
NNB:
Is it true that you are a Funeral Director?
DT:
I have been, and I will be again. I’m much better with the dead than the
living.
NNB:
So, you’ve been in love with Charlotte all of these years?
DT:
I always loved Charlotte—well, she’s Carly now—but it’s far
more complicated
than you can ever imagine. That day of the fire, I don’t think Charlotte knew
of her power, and when she resurrected me, well, she was more than just a
little bit spooked. She ran away and I never saw her again for a very, very
long time.
NNB:
How did you know you would never die?
DT:
I knew I was different after the fire, but to what extent I wasn’t sure. I knew
I was a healer, but I always tried to convince myself that I never really died
in the fire, that I was just very, very ill and imagined everything. When I was
forty, I thought I was just lucky. When I was fifty, I sort of knew. All of my
friends were aging and I looked the same.
NNB:
It must be very difficult to retain friendships when your friends are aging and
you’re not.
DT:
It’s definitely one of the worst aspects of being eternal. Through no real
fault of my own I have to walk away from friendships when people start asking too
many questions.
NNB:
In the past, have your friends asked one too many questions about your
uniqueness?
DT:
I live a much regimented life when it comes to dealing with people. There’s too
much of a chance of my getting tripped by questions about my past. I’ve learned
over the years to basically keep to myself.
NNB:
Have you ever resurrected anyone?
DT:
Almost…once. You need to understand that I have always loved Charlotte. But I
was extremely lonely as well. In the end, I didn’t do it, and I’d prefer not to
talk about it. That was a very dark time of my life.
NNB:
Understood. What can you tell me about Charlotte, who now goes by the name
Carly?
DT:
She is the love of my life. I will never be complete until I am with her
forever. And it will happen, sooner or later, one way or another.
NNB:
You sound very determined, very sure.
DT:
What I know, is what I know, that’s all. Until it happens, I’ll do what I must
to get by.
NNB:
Are there other eternals out there like you and Charlotte?
DT:
There’s an eternal named Xander Elliott. He also loves Charlotte, but he’ll
never have her. He’s cursed by his former lover, Embree. Embree, by the way, is
the eternal who resurrected my Charlotte. I’m sure there are others as well.
NNB:
There sounds like there could be more stories in the future involving Xander
and Embree.
Many thanks, Daniel, for trusting me enough to share
a tiny bit about yourself and your outlook.
To read more about Daniel and Carly, look for SEE ME, available
at Leap of Faith Publishing, or visit my blog at:
www.natalienicolebates.com
Bio for Natalie-Nicole
Bates
Natalie-Nicole Bates
is a book reviewer and author.
Her passions in life
include books and hockey along with Victorian and Edwardian era photography and
antique poison bottles. Natalie contributes her uncharacteristic love of hockey
to being born in Russia.
She currently resides
in the UK where she is working on her next book and adding to her collection of
19th century post-mortem photos.
Visit Natalie online
at www.natalienicolebates.com
Blurb for SEE ME by Natalie-Nicole Bates
Carly Anders is hearing voices in her head. Another one of
her kind is trying to contact her. She knows of the malevolent freaks—others who are eternal like her and seek out the
weak to inflict pain upon. For years, Carly has held up huge protective walls
to keep herself and her secrets safe. Now, physically and mentally exhausted,
Carly needs protection and rest.
She accepts the invitation to visit an internet
friend who needs help appraising a collection of antique photographs. The situation is not ideal, but Carly hopes a
male presence in her life will deter the determined suitor who haunts her
thoughts and dreams.
Daniel Tremont is not what Carly is expecting.
The former funeral director has a secret of his
own. Not only is he eternal like Carly, he is her creation from all those years
before—her abomination she thought she killed.
Daniel has been searching for Carly for years.
He knows she is the piece of his life that he has been missing for so long. Now
that he has found her, he has no intentions of letting her go.
He waved a hand in front of her face, but
she didn’t blink. The lights are on, but
no one’s home.
“Carly, my angel,” he whispered and cupped
her cheek into his palm. He revealed in the silkiness and warmth of her skin.
Still, she didn’t react. She was almost…a zombie.
His own body jerked in reaction to the
fear she was emanating. She was clearly sleepwalking and in the throes of one
hell of a nightmare, yet she didn’t cry out any longer. It was all now playing
out inside her mind.
“Charlotte, see me,” he implored.
Her lips twitched at the mention of her
real name.
“See me,” he repeated.
Suddenly, her body gave way and she
collapsed. Catching her, he lifted her into his arms and carried her to the
bed. As he laid her down, her breathing became ragged. He placed a hand over
her heart as it raced, and passed healing calmness through his hand, feeling
the energy pulsate against her skin. Beneath his hand, he would feel her
heartbeat slow to a normal rhythm.
“Daniel?” Her voice was mere caress.
“I’m here, my angel. You’re having a
nightmare. You’re frightened. It’s okay now, I’m here, and I will never leave
you,” he promised.
“Everyone leaves, Daniel. You can’t
understand, you can’t…” Her body started to tremble.
He climbed onto the bed and straddled her
body. Leaning close to her face, he said, “Carly, let go of your fear. I can
take it. Let go and see me,” he commanded.
Her breath came out in a whoosh, and a
wall of fear and resistance hit him like a blow from above. It wasn’t exactly
painful, more startling than anything else.
His vision flip-flopped, and he could see
an image from inside her mind of two souls forever entwined as the result of
one act. It made perfect sense. She was reliving the day their souls became
one. The day of the fire.
He then saw black, suffocating water. She
was reliving her own death, as well.
As the visions left him, he was consumed
with the mishmash of fear, loneliness, and resistance within her.
He had to make her understand that it was
over. “I will never leave you, Carly. That is my promise to you,” he insisted.
A flicker of life ignited in her eyes. Her
hands came up to his face, and to Daniel’s surprise, tears bubbled from his own
eyes. He was releasing the pain and fear he had absorbed from his beloved.
“I’m so sorry, Daniel, so sorry,” she
murmured.
“There’s nothing to be sorry for, my love.
It’s over. It’s time to move forward now.”
“You don’t understand what I am, Daniel.”
“I do understand, Carly. I am what you
are. See me for what I am.”
In his mind, he could see the moving
clockwork gears of her thoughts once again as she tried to process what he was
telling her to be true.
“Just accept it, and let’s move forward.”
She drew his face to hers and her lips
parted beneath his. Time blurred and he drank in the essence of his Carly. Her
soft, barely covered curves molded themselves against his the hard planes of
his body. Her hands were under his t-shirt, her fingers stroking him.
If he pressed on, he knew she wouldn’t
refuse him. But in her vulnerable state, he wouldn’t let anything progress
further that night. Carly needed time to process everything that happened.
There was plenty of time to pursue a physical relationship. They weren’t going
any where…he hoped.
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ReplyDeleteI hadn't heard of it before, but this book sounds really interesting. I will definitely check it out. Daniel sounds like a great guy who isn't afraid to show his feelings.
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Thank you so much, Jen! xx
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