As You Wish Reviews: Tour Stop / The Haret by Denise Daisy

Title: The Haret

Author: Denise Daisy

Presented by Nevermore PR

Length: 252 Pages

Why an Author?

One of my favorite quotes is from Donald Miller. He says, “It the way you live your life won’t make a story meaningful then it won’t make a life meaningful either.”

I became an author because I love telling stories and I love to motivate. My books are all suspense thrillers with a touch of supernatural fantasy woven in among the romance and spine tingling chills. They are exciting page turners to say the least but they are also words that make you stop and think about your own life. Several of my readers have said my books have them on the edge of their seats, laughing out loud one minute, crying the next and stopping to ponder their own life. I love that. In my book The Haret my main character Felicitas is having an argument with her mother. At one point she asks her mom, “When did you lose your wonder?” I noticed that quote was listed on Goodreads as someone’s favorite quote. That made my day…someone somewhere is contemplating if they have lost their wonder and if they have, I hope they work at discovering it again. I write because I love to entertain, to transport you to a world beyond the boundaries of this life. To show you excitement and thrills all while discovering great truths mixed in with unconditional love. Hopefully you can live vicariously through my characters and translate some of what they learn into your own life and before your own personal story ends…you will realize how very meaningful your life truly is..

Blurb

Felicitas’ life is thrown into chaos when she begins to have dreams of Raine Zadock. Not only has she never met him, but the intimate night in her dreams shows a positive result on her pregnancy test. She doesn’t dare tell her controlling father, Melvin Rebold, the town’s most prominent Baptist minister or her passive mother Sharon. The only person she can confide in is her grandmother Rosie, however her father forbids her to have anything to do with her, claiming she’s insane and speaks with the dead. But, before Felicitas can confess her secret, she mysteriously vanishes. During the search to find her, news of her pregnancy surfaces along with a cryptic Nocturnal Journal that cast an accusing finger on a secretive stranger.

A week later, she is found wandering the woods but with no memory of where she has been. An angry Detective, her boyfriend and her parents are furious with her and of course do not believe her story of becoming pregnant in a dream.

After her father threatens to send her off to County Mental Health, she runs away to her grandmother’s house, all the while haunted by her father’s continual warnings about the woman. True to her father’s description, Rosie seems a bit eccentric and shares wild mystical tales of dreams and other dimensions. Together Felicitas and her grandmother trace their roots back ten generations and make a disturbing discovery that someone very close to her is not who they seem.

Author Bio
Joining the ranks of best-selling authors, Denise Daisy is described as one of the purest storytellers of all time; pulling of romance, suspense and a touch of fantasy, all in the same piece. Denise’s novels include, The Secrets of Moonshine, Haytham The Secret in the Rubble, both books are a part of her popular Moonshine Series. The third installment The Storyteller’s Secret is due out in 2013.The Haret is the first book in The Haret Series, and, Thirteen for Dinner is a stand-alone suspense thriller.She lives in San Diego with her youngest daughter Journey. She free-lances as a hairstylist and make-up artist. She is very active in the community, directing and teaching for the national CYT, children’s theater. During her free time she enjoys hanging out with all four of her daughters, Autumn, Brittany, Kendall and Journey or taking a sail with her real life leading man Scott Dazey.