As You Wish Reviews: Twin Flames by Debbie Christiana

My Guest ~ Debbie Christiana

Thank you, Julia, for having me as your guest today.

My debut novel, Twin Flames, released by Black Opal Books, is what I affectionately refer to as a paranormal love story rather than a romance. It was a story I carried around for many years and when I was finally ready to put it on paper, it flowed naturally and easily from me. It’s a tale of reincarnation, twin flame soul mates and of course, a playful ghost. My fascination with reincarnation began when I was about twelve years old, thanks to my mother, who handed me my first book on the subject. I was hooked.

When Marc and Natalia first meet one cold December night, it’s in a déjà vu moment. We’ve all had them, when we have the odd sensation that the present feels like the past. It may be when you meet someone for the first time or strike up a conversation or walk into a building you’ve never been to before. The scientific community says it has to do with memory processes. Memories of what? Many parapsychologists believe it’s a recalling of an experience from a past life. Whatever the reason, I like it when it happens to me. I struggle to keep the moment for as long as I can, trying to decipher what it all means, but in a flash, it’s gone.

Another concept of reincarnation I wove into the story was the notion of birthmarks. Many experts in the field of past life regression believe birthmarks are similar to ‘battle scars’ that we carry with us into each incarnation. Marc has a strange and unattractive birthmark on his left shoulder. Natalia draws it perfectly without ever seeing or knowing he has it.

The premise of twin flame soul mates dates back to ancient Greece when they believed the Gods created one soul, split in two. One-half female and one-half male. The two human beings the souls inhabited would never be happy until they found their ‘other half.”

I put all these ideas together and Marc and Natalia’s love story was born.

Twin Flames Blurb

The last thing forty-year old Natalia Santagario expected was to be sitting on a Manhattan barstool ogling a man she has never met, but swears she knows.

The mysterious dark-haired woman at the end of the bar stops twenty-eight year old Marc Tremonti in his tracks. His head assures him she’s a stranger, but his heart tells him otherwise.

Their attraction instant and enigmatic, they travel back in time only to discover they have spent hundreds of lives together as lovers and Natalia holds the secret to Marc’s puzzling birthmark.

But their reunion in this life is complicated by a kind, albeit confused almost ex-wife, an unfortunate accident and a temporary bout of amnesia. When a mischievous ghost from their past decides to help them, what could possibly go wrong?

Author Bio

Debbie Christiana would sit in her room as a little girl and write stories about ghosts, unexplained events and things that go bump in the night. She combined her love of the paranormal with her fascination of unusual love stories and decided to write paranormal romance. Her debut novel, Twin Flames, was released in 2011 with Black Opal Books. Her second book, Solstice, is a 2013 release. This year she’s had two short stories published. The Land of the Rising Sun, was one of ten included in the anthology BITES: Ten Tales of Vampires and The Thirteen Steps is featured in BELTANE: Ten Tales of Witchcraft. Debbie is a member of RWA and Secretary of the Romance Writers Chapter of Connecticut and Lower New York. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and three children.