Welcome to Five on Friday. Today, I feature Carolina Montague. Learn about her and her books, then follow her on social media. AND, remember to always review the books you read!
Carolina Montague grew up in upstate New York and in the Bay Area of California. Her first novel, a medieval paranormal, was published in 2000, followed in 2002 by a short story in the Berkley Jove anthology Words of the Witches, and a dark angel novel, Sacred Guardian, with Wild Rose Press in 2010. Her recent releases are the first three books in her Wild Rose Press Forever and Ever vampire series, Forever Green (2015), Forever Hunted (2016), and Forever Endangered (2018).
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Kim Parker and Rakesh Alcourt shelter inside a decommissioned Titan missile silo, recovering from near-fatal wounds incurred in their battle with Kronos, the vampire creator of a virus that is depopulating humanity. While humans die by the millions, Kim and Rakesh search for cures and for Kronos. When they venture into nearby Denver, Kim is captured which sends Rakesh into a tailspin. Just three weeks ago, Kronos threatened to skin Kim alive.
While Rakesh desperately searches, Kronos takes Kim on his cargo-container ship and has his surgeon operate on her. Kim fears Kronos may have had something implanted inside her. After she is released, the secret within her body proves more perilous than anything she feared.
And the repercussions shake the very foundations of the love she shares with Rakesh.
https://www.amazon.com/Forever-Endangered-Carolina-Montague/dp/1509219730
Here are the five questions Carolina chose to answer.
What is your greatest fear?
I fear that we won’t take the necessary steps soon enough to prevent catastrophic environmental disasters. When I was talking to UC Berkeley scientists and taking classes there to give me background for the Forever and Ever series, a few of them said it may be too late now. Others were hopeful, but they all agreed that the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was only this high millions of years ago, when the planet was quite a different place, and more hostile to life forms.
Ann: This is another reason I don’t read the paper or watch the news. The less scary things I know about…the better!
What is your favorite thing to do during your spare time…besides writing?
That’s easy – I love to read. I had a countdown to retirement calendar when I was in the home stretch with only weeks until my last day at work. All the books I’d bought over the years but didn’t have the time to read were stacked all over my house, just waiting for me.
Ann: I know. There is never enough time to read all the books we’d like.
Do you have a secret? Something you’ve never told anyone…just answer yes or no.
Yes. Sad to say, yes.
Ann: Usually it’s the bad or sad things we keep secret.
What is the first book that made you cry?
The Diary of Young Girl by Ann Frank. I read it in Junior High School. She was so honest and real. I felt that I knew her. Even though I knew how her story ended, I still cried. Now I have a friend who is a concentration camp survivor. He was a young man when he and his family were rounded up. They all made it through. He told me this was because they were in Italy, not Germany.
Ann: I think that’s what makes a good book. One that can pull those emotions to the surface.
Where were you when JFK was shot?
I was in elementary school in Syracuse New York. The teachers let us go home early. It was a Friday and my brothers and I were looking forward to watching a science fiction all-weekend special on a local station in Syracuse. I felt weird that I was disappointed the special was cancelled. If someone could shoot and kill our young president, then anything could happen. My brothers were older and they already knew that life was fragile. I remember trying to keep an eye on my mom and dad and looked out the windows that weekend to see if anyone was out there, lurking with a rifle.
Ann: It just dawned on me it won’t be long until this question will no longer be relevant. Sad to think everyone alive at the time of his assassination will be gone. Time flies so fast, it will come sooner than we think!
