Guest Post & Giveaway: Spiritus - Dana Michelle Burnett

Good Morning! We have Dana Michelle Burnett with us today guest posting about her book, Spiritus, and giving away a copy. Help me in welcoming Dana to Cocktails and Books!

What If?

I think as a writer, I always start off creating my stories with the question of “what if”.  What if I was in love with a spirit from another time?  What if I was responsible for his undoing?  Oh, the beauty in the question of what if!

That was exactly the what if situation that guided me to write Spiritus.  What if ghosts were real?  What if we could talk to a ghost?  What if that ghost grew stronger the more we interacted?  What if that ghost had a reason to want revenge?  What if I fell in love with that ghost?

I built Spiritus around the possibilities of those questions and as I move forward with the series, I am asking that question again…What if?  Has there ever been a more beautiful question?  As a writer, I doubt it.  What if is a blank page just waiting to be filled in!  What if is all the books I have yet to write!  What if is magical!  What if is the reason I keep doing this!

Oh, what if…..





We're giving away a copy of Spiritus.  To enter, complete the Rafflecopter below and leave a comment about what you would do if you fell in love with a ghost.  The winner will be chosen, at random, on February 28, 2012.

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About the Book

A love that refuses to die…

“As I watched him vanish into a soft mist that faded away, I knew that he was no ordinary spirit…I knew that he was a dangerous entity that could be in some corner of another realm planning his revenge, but I also knew that I was hopelessly in love with him.”

When Becca moves into her ancestral home in Corydon, Indiana, her life takes a puzzling and thrilling turn when she meets the ghost haunting the halls. As the seductive spirit lures her closer and closer, she learns about her own past and starts to understand that some mistakes are meant to last.

Becca McAllister has always been different from other girls her age. Never part of the "in crowd", Becca never really fit in anywhere. When her mother dies and her father moves them to the small town of Corydon, Indiana, Becca didn't expect things to change.

But things do change when Becca accidentally makes contact with a one hundred and sixty year old ghost, Alastor Sinclair, that haunts the halls of her new home.

To Becca, Alastor is a seductive spirit that seems to see straight into her soul. To Alastor, Becca is what he was waited a century for--A second chance.

But the closer they get, the more Becca realizes that this isn't the first time she and Alastor have known each other. Worse still, is she the one responsible for his death so long ago? And if so, did he come back for love or revenge?  

About the Author

Dana Michelle Burnett spent most of her life writing short stories and sharing them with family and friends. Over the years, her work was published in numerous commercial and literary magazines  including Just Labs, Mindprints: A Literary Journal, Foliate Oak, and many more.  Her short story John Lennon and the Chicken Holocaust was include in The Best of Foliate Oak 2006.

In 2010, Burnett's first novel, Ghost Country, was released.  Based on her own Cherokee heritage, the novel marked her return to the literary world after a four year hiatus.  She followed that with the release of her first romance novel, Two Out of Three in the summer of 2011.

Spiritus is the first novel in her new  paranormal romance series by the same name. The second book, Haunted,  is expected in the spring of 2012.


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