Immortality – To Be or Not To Be?

Recently, I began to dig into editing revisions for the sequel to The Broken Vow. And, of course, in doing so, this led to a lot of reflections on my werewolf protagonist, Ethan Garraint, and the why of how he came to be.


Right after the resurgence of the vampire genre, or should I say reinventing of it, after the Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer, many paranormal writers were dipping their toes in the Twilight pool with either vampire or werewolf endeavors. I had already written several short stories involving the same werewolf character, so I decided to try my hand at a full novel.


Now, there were several problems I had jumping into the werewolf arena. One was that I wrestled with the issue of an immortal character. Immortality itself, I think, is a problematic trope. Ostensibly, the idea of living so long is sort of depressing with all your loved ones dying lifetime after lifetime. And there is also the problem of stagnancy. As a keen believer in esoteric philosophy, I have always believed that living is not without purpose. That everyone’s life is filled with lessons, obstacles, and experiences specifically tailored to them for the purpose of their spiritual evolution. So, the idea that someone could live thousands of years and not change did not seem viable.


And evolution, or rather what I’d term spiritual evolution, doesn’t take place on a time schedule. It takes place through experiences. In the novel, The Broken Vow, Etienne (renamed Ethan in subsequent years) encounters spiritual mentors in the Cathar people during his time with them at Montsegur in Southern France. Historically, Montségur fell to a siege and the Cathars a genocide led by Pope Innocent III during the Albigensian Crusade. But Etienne’s time with the Cathars, soaking in their esoteric philosophy, becomes pivotal in his evolution and key in the plot of that first book.


Another issue I had was that I wasn’t really interested as a writer in too deeply exploring the “werewolf” problem — the mechanics of the werewolf transformation. I was determined that the character in my books would have to be the key. Ethan Garraint had to be an interesting person who just happened to be a werewolf, not interesting because he was a werewolf. As far as I am concerned, being a werewolf is sort of like having a chronic illness or perhaps a peculiar talent; it’s just something you carry around with you.


So, the issues I was determined to sort out were how to make immortality engaging, showing growth with the character, and how not to have the werewolf aspect smother Ethan Garraint’s personality.


The seeds of the sequel to The Broken Vow were sowed long ago. It was actually a story for him that I’ve always had in mind. While The Broken Vow leans more in the direction of a paranormal thriller, the new book, The Story of Enid, is in many respects a paranormal romance. It involves themes of reincarnation and brings the idea of evolution and character growth up to close inspection. After all, how would you feel if you had to actually confront your younger self? Would that be a person you would even care to know? Something to ponder.


Well, back to work. My target date for publication of The Story of Enid is hopefully this summer. I’ll keep you posted.

The Broken Vow: Vol. I The Clandestine Exploits of a Werewolf

In the heart of every man there is a history. In the heart of every monster there is a story. In this first installment of “The Clandestine Exploits of a Werewolf,” Ethan Garraint is on a vendetta that begins in the heart of the Pyrenees with the fall of Montségur and leads him to the streets of New Orleans nearly five hundred years later. But the person he chases isn’t really a man anymore and Ethan has been a werewolf for almost a millennium. With the aid of a gifted seer, he is on a blood hunt that will culminate in a journey that crosses the line between heaven and earth and ends somewhere in between.

Ebooks at Cornerstone!!

Several of my ebook collections are now on sale at Cornerstone Publishers in an EPUB format.

To make books available to the largest number of ebook readers, Cornerstone is now offering downloadable EPUB files. These EPUB files can be loaded to almost any ebook reader platform. Changing your reader platform? It’s not a problem. The Cornerstone EPUB files can be transferred from platform to platform.

All you need to do is select the Cornerstone ebook you would like to read, buy it, download it from the link you will receive, and follow the included instructions to load the EPUB file into the reader of your choice.

The Cornerstone EPUB collection is new and growing. Many more titles will be added soon. All of my books are still available on Kindle and other ebook platforms. This is just a new and versatile option.


The Mystic’s Collection

Love is complicated, but even more so, if you are a seer, a psychic sensitive to the unseen world. The Mystic’s Collection is a box set of three haunting and unforgettable novels masterfully woven by paranormal author Evelyn Klebert, including:

A Quiet Moment:

Jacob Wyss is caught in a rut, in fact on the verge of being engulfed by it. After an excruciating and disillusioning divorce, his life as an artist at the foot of the Appalachian Mountains has become quiet, routine, and maddening in its predictability. On a wintry day, his deep restlessness drives him out in precarious conditions to a largely empty bookstore nearly devoid of another living soul, nearly.

Aimee Marston isn’t like everyone else. On the surface, she lives a sedate life working as a writer for a small local newspaper. But just beneath, her existence is largely not her own. She is a sensitive, empathic psychic, guided by her calling to use her gifts
to help others.

A psychic call for help sends Aimee out on a freezing January morning, where her destiny and Jacob’s collide. Two lonely souls connect, not by accident but by design. Theirs is the intersection of spiritual paths, two lovers who must struggle to overcome the phantoms of a past life as well as the challenges of their inner demons to carve out a future together.

Sanctuary of Echoes:

Corey Knight has resigned herself to a quiet, reclusive life spent living out the rest of her days on the fringes of New Orleans’ French Quarter. But the unexpected specter of her deceased father plunges her into a mad quest for a missing supernatural weapon unearthed long ago. And unfortunately, her only ally is a lost love she once betrayed.

Iain Shaw returns to New Orleans, a city he abandoned a decade before while fleeing a devastating past. Here, he is forced to confront it again in the visage of the woman he once adored – one he is now determined to get back at any cost.

Treading on Borrowed Time:

For Julia Moreau, life seems complicated. Emerging from a failed marriage, she lives alone in her childhood home, where she communicates with the spirit of her Great Aunt Lilia. But Julia doesn’t have a clue what complicated is until she is thrust into being the key chess piece in a match between two powerful men of extraordinary abilities on the wild hunt for a mystical creature hidden in the heart of New Orleans’ French Quarter. Will Julia lose her soul to the karma of a devastating past life or her heart to the love of a man driven by dark forces?


New Orleans Paranormal Mystery Collection

New Orleans is a compelling, intriguing city filled with mystery — seen and unseen. Join the psychic Breslin family as they explore and battle elements of the supernatural within this mystical city in the boxed set of the first three novels of the New Orleans Paranormal Mystery series.


Gravier’s Bookshop: Caroline Breslin is determined to strike out on her own, and all is going well, except that she is under a devastating supernatural attack. The last thing Caroline wants is to run back to her family for help. What she really needs is a knight in shining armor or maybe just that guy that keeps haunting her dreams.
Max Gravier had no intention of becoming a recluse, but after his wife’s death, it seems his life is heading in that direction. That is until he answers a call, a cry for help that draws him into a fierce battle for a young woman’s soul.


The Hotel Mandolin: It’s opulent, classic, and one of the most renowned hotels nestled deep in New Orleans’ famous business district, but something is amiss at The Hotel Mandolin. PI Peter Norfleet is calling out the big guns to help him investigate a recent suicide at the famous establishment — his good friend Max Gravier, a formidable psychic, and his girlfriend, Caroline Breslin, a talented empath. But none of them can seem to scratch the surface of this puzzle, no one except Cassie Breslin, Caroline’s clairvoyant mother, who has somehow tapped into an unexpected connection with a tragic ghost from the turn of the century. And the more she uncovers, the more dangerous and malevolent the mystery becomes.


The House at Pritchard Place: Nothing is really wrong with the old Warrick House on Dante St., except that there most certainly is. Nothing is exactly wrong with its new mysterious owner except that Elise is sure something doesn’t add up. It isn’t obvious, but sometimes the most dangerous things aren’t. With the help of her very psychic sister and her children, the Breslin clan, Elise Ashford is about to embark on a wild rescue mission straight into another dimension that will land her squarely somewhere she doesn’t expect, right back into her past. She’ll land full circle in a childhood home whose memory still haunts her to this day — The House at Pritchard Place.


The Journey of the Adept

For the adept, the world is a different, more challenging place, and the unseen, the supernatural, is laid bare. Follow three fascinating heroines on their transformative journeys in this collection of paranormal novels by Evelyn Klebert.

The Lady in the Blue Dress
When she was a child, Mika Devalieur was introduced to her grandmother’s most precious possession — a priceless and mysterious painting that she simply called The Lady in the Blue Dress. Upon Adele St. Clair’s death, the painting is left in the care of her granddaughter with only one stipulation. Mika must hand over the family heirloom to a total stranger. Mika Devalieur desperately wants to deny her beloved grandmother’s last request, but she can’t. Torn between her Gran’s last wishes and her desire to hold onto the Lady, she ultimately journeys to rural Virginia, where an enigmatic man shows her that this painting is only the beginning.


What quickly becomes clear is that James Clairmont knows much more about her and the Lady than he is letting on. He begins to slowly unravel a powerful supernatural connection that spans three generations of her family. Mika finds herself desperate to uncover the entire truth before she falls in love with a man filled with so many secrets — secrets about him, about her, and most especially about The Lady in the Blue Dress.

Dumaine Street
A New Orleans paranormal and psychic romance.

Voices in her head, catastrophic emotions, hallucinations — Rebecca Wells is more than convinced that she is losing her mind. And as a last-ditch effort, she contacts a self-professed counselor who seems convinced he can help.

Gabriel Sutton has abandoned the world of medicine to navigate a realm filled with psychic phenomena. Diagnosing Becca with extreme empathic abilities, he struggles to help her stabilize her gifts while trying desperately not to fall in love with his patient.

From the realm of vulnerability into a crusade to use their profound gifts to rescue others from peril on the other side of death, these two follow an astonishing and unpredictable path into each other’s hearts.

The Tethering: A Portent of Crows
Deborah Brandt’s beloved Aunt Gena always told her that she was special, a bit different, and would have to live her life, unlike other people. Of course, this she disregarded as the ramblings of her lovely but notably eccentric aunt. Although there were the things that Aunt Gena said that seemed true — like Deborah being sensitive to energy shifts, having potentially psychic impressions, and dreaming of a spirit guide — none of it could be real. But the most ridiculous thing that her Aunt Gena told her before she died was that someone special was out there for her. She said that he was an extraordinary man who was not only her perfect match but someone who she would learn from so that they could help the world in difficult times. How ridiculous! It sounds like a fairy tale, and no such person exists.

Daniel Wren is unique. He has been raised and trained from a young age to hone his psychic gifts. He lives in a world unimagined by most. And he has been waiting for years to contact his counterpart, soulmate, if you will. But the problem is that she is painfully unaware of the type of life that he lives and the life she would be entering into if they came together.

His dilemma becomes how best to proceed. How can he win her over and move forward before outside forces take that decision away from him? Now on sale for $4.99!!

New Orleans Paranormal Mystery Collection Box Set – Now Available

The eBook collection of the New Orleans Paranormal Mystery Series – Volumes 1-3 has just been released at Amazon and soon will be available on most online retail eBook platforms. This collection is presently on sale for $4.99, so scoop it up for a cozy spooky Christmas season in the grand old city of New Orleans. This compilation includes Gravier’s Bookshop, The Hotel Mandolin, and The House at Pritchard Place.

New Orleans is a compelling, intriguing city filled with mystery — seen and unseen. Join the psychic Breslin family as they explore and battle elements of the supernatural within this mystical city in the boxed set of the first three novels of the New Orleans Paranormal Mystery series.


Gravier’s Bookshop: Caroline Breslin is determined to strike out on her own, and all is going well, except that she is under a devastating supernatural attack. The last thing Caroline wants is to run back to her family for help. What she really needs is a knight in shining armor or maybe just that guy that keeps haunting her dreams.
Max Gravier had no intention of becoming a recluse, but after his wife’s death, it seems his life is heading in that direction. That is until he answers a call, a cry for help that draws him into a fierce battle for a young woman’s soul.


The Hotel Mandolin: It’s opulent, classic, and one of the most renowned hotels nestled deep in New Orleans’ famous business district, but something is amiss at The Hotel Mandolin. PI Peter Norfleet is calling out the big guns to help him investigate a recent suicide at the famous establishment — his good friend Max Gravier, a formidable psychic, and his girlfriend, Caroline Breslin, a talented empath. But none of them can seem to scratch the surface of this puzzle, no one except Cassie Breslin, Caroline’s clairvoyant mother, who has somehow tapped into an unexpected connection with a tragic ghost from the turn of the century. And the more she uncovers, the more dangerous and malevolent the mystery becomes.


The House at Pritchard Place: Nothing is really wrong with the old Warrick House on Dante St., except that there most certainly is. Nothing is exactly wrong with its new mysterious owner except that Elise is sure something doesn’t add up. It isn’t obvious, but sometimes the most dangerous things aren’t. With the help of her very psychic sister and her children, the Breslin clan, Elise Ashford is about to embark on a wild rescue mission straight into another dimension that will land her squarely somewhere she doesn’t expect, right back into her past. She’ll land full circle in a childhood home whose memory still haunts her to this day — The House at Pritchard Place.

The Witches’ Own – Just Released

Just in case you haven’t quite gotten Halloween out of your system, here is one more chilling tale for you. The newly revised edition of The Witches’ Own has just been released and is available at Cornerstone, Amazon, and most other online book and eBook retailers.

The Witches’ Own

On the surface, things seem quiet and serene in the picturesque coastal village of Kilmarnock, Virginia. But something unseen roams its lush forests as the past and present collide and the unthinkable begins to wreak its vengeance. Young Lucy Bonner is executed for witchcraft in the town’s distant and brutal past. Her death triggers an unholy chain of events which grasp at the restless heart of novelist Peter McQuade, spurring him towards a quest to uncover the dark and terrifying truth.