Scent by Jacqueline Paige: Character Interview

Scent

Animal Trilogy, Book Two

Jacqueline Paige

eBook ISBN: 9781629292588

Print ISBN: 9781629292595

Genre: Paranormal

Sub Genre: Romance

Novel of 79838 words

Heat rating: 3

Edited by Sally Odgers

Cover Artwork by Amanda Kelsey

Book Description:

Sometimes the answers you get aren’t what you asked.The world can tilt a bit and throw you off balance, just enough that you have to stop and make some adjustments. Kelsey comes home to find out her entire life and everything she thought she knew is a lie. When her world spins out of control and flips in more directions then she could ever count, she struggles to right it again.

Available at Eternal Press   Amazon

Author Bio

Jacqueline Paige lives in Ontario in a small town that's part of the popular Georgian Triangle area.  No one has ever heard of Stayner, so she usually tells people she lives near Collingwood and no, she doesn't ski at Blue Mountain or at all, in fact she's not even fond of snow.

She began her writing career in 2006 and since her first published works in 2009 she hasn't stopped.  Jacqueline describes her writing as all things paranormal, which she has proven is her niche with stories of witches, ghosts, physics and shifters now on the shelves.

When Jacqueline isn't working at her reality job or lost in her writing she spends time with her five children, most of whom are finally able to look after her instead of the other way around.  Together they do random road trips, that usually end up with them lost,  shopping trips where they push every button in the toy aisle, hiking when there's enough time to escape and bizarre things like creating new daring recipes in the kitchen. She's a grandmother to five (so far) and looks forward to corrupting many more in the years to come.

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Character Interview 

Please welcome Kelsey Jennings from Jacqueline Paige's Scent to Diane’s Book Blog. 


What is your full name? Do you have a nickname?

Kelsey Jennings.  The guys just call me Kel or Kels – Cooper has always called me Kitty-Kat … which now that I know what I do about myself makes more sense than it did when I was growing up. 

What is your hair color? Eye color? 

Everyone says it’s strawberry blonde, but I think it’s more of a pale orange – if that makes sense.

My eyes are a pale amber or washed out brown I guess, depending on how you like to look at things. (the picture on the cover is from when my hair was long, glad I did now that I’m back in the shop again – long hair and motor oil don’t mix well)

How old are you?

Twenty-three.

Where were you born? Where have you lived since then? Where do you currently call home?

Honestly, I don’t know. My parents died when I was a teen, but we moved quite a bit before that, so I don’t remember them ever talking about it. Since they died I lived with a family that were their friends until I went away to college.  I thought I was still looking for a place to call home, but ended up back there so I guess the vast North of rocks and trees is my home.

Who are the people you are closest to?

I guess I’m lucky having several people that are like family and close to. Gage’s mom is the only female in my life really, so I suppose that’s why we’re close. Although I preferred to spend my time in the shop with the guys so Jake and Blair became close friends. Cooper has always been like a treasured older uncle to me. 

What is your greatest regret?

That my parents died before I found out about our heritage. Having had my mother to see me through all of this would have made it so much easier.

Which talent would you most like to have?


To read minds. If I had that then my entire life wouldn’t have been masked with people lying to me.

This Ring by Jacqueline Paige Spotlight

This RingJacqueline Paige

Length: 23,700

Genre: Paranormal / fantasy romance

Book Description:

Attempting to pick up the pieces of her life and heart, Emma flees to an isolated cottage on a lake. Not knowing what to do or where to start, she needs time to decide on her new life.

An invisibility curse has given Bryce forty years to reflect on past mistakes. The arrival of an intriguing woman brings him someone to watch, who just might be the first to see him in decades.

Together they may find their chance to live again…

This Ring was previously published in 2011 as one of the stories in the Curses book

Excerpt #1

The most fascinating thing began to happen as the sun started to light the world.  It looked as if fog, or mist she supposed, was coming off the ground and shore, moving out over the water.  She sat there in awe, never having seen such a thing in her life.  It was both eerie and breathtaking all at the same time.  For a second she pondered on whether she should run back inside and get her phone to record it—but not knowing how long it would last she sat right where she was.

In no time the lake was covered in a blanket of mist that hovered and swirled just over the water’s surface.  Emma couldn’t take her eyes off the bright white layer over the water.  Birds were oblivious to it being there as some flew from the trees to land among the haze—only to vanish from her sight.  There was something else among the white vapor; she stood to get a better look in the low light, trying to decide what it could be. 

As her eyes focused through the misty dawn glow she dropped the cup to the sand beside her shoes.  It looked like a man; only he wasn’t quite solid looking.  Which, she knew was crazy.  Men didn’t walk out of the water.  She thought maybe he was on a boat that the fog hid, until it swirled clear around him and there was nothing but water beneath his feet. Snapping her mouth shut, she squinted and watched as he came towards the shore.  Having hallucinated more than enough, she turned abruptly and walked back towards the little cottage.  Clearly she still needed a lot more sleep.

Excerpt #2

All in all it had been a long tedious road to this point with no turns what so ever—until this morning when she had looked right at him with both disbelief and dismay on her face.  It may not have been a positive cosmic vibe but it was a hell of a lot more than he’d had in all the years he had been waiting and wandering.

Before he was filled with that woe feeling that plagued him daily, after all spending an eternity with no one but yourself got to you after a few years, he turned back to study her.  This hadn’t been a huge past time of his, most of the time when there were people around he wandered the other way.  After all they represented the one thing he wasn’t – there.  With her though it was different, she was somehow different than all the others.  What was it about her?

There wasn’t anything in particular that stood out about her.  She seemed to be an average height and build.  He pinned her age somewhere close to thirty that much about women hadn’t changed that he couldn’t guess an age range and be pretty close to right.  Her hair was a mousy brown, for lack of a better way to describe it, and she had it all chopped up like scissors had randomly been placed wherever and cut—he liked it, it was original.  Of course he didn’t know what the current in thing was, so it may not be all that original.  He wasn’t close enough to see her eyes, but thinking about when they were huge and staring in his direction, he was fairly certain they were brown.  So she was very much average across the scales—but what was it about her that just kept him sitting here on this rock, not that he felt his body against it, watching her.

There were choices here, at least a few.  He could sit here and continue doing what he was doing until night came, bringing morning closer.  That would get a few bits past boring if she went back inside again and didn’t return.  The second option was to go wander around the lake and pass the time with more speed than he was doing now.  Grinning, he shook his head—because making time go faster had worked out so well for him in the last decade, or two.

About the Author:

Jacqueline Paige lives in Ontario in a small town that’s part of the popular Georgian Triangle area.  No one has ever heard of Stayner, so she usually tells people she lives “near Collingwood” and no, she doesn’t ski at Blue Mountain or at all, in fact she’s not even fond of snow. 

She began her writing career in 2006 and since her first published works in 2009 she hasn’t stopped.  Jacqueline describes her writing as “all things paranormal”, which she has proven is her niche with stories of witches, ghosts, physics and shifters now on the shelves.

When Jacqueline isn’t working at her ‘reality job’ or lost in her writing she spends time with her five children, most of whom are finally able to look after her instead of the other way around.  Together they do random road trips, that usually end up with them lost,  shopping trips where they push every button in the toy aisle, hiking when there’s enough time to escape and bizarre things like creating new daring recipes in the kitchen. She’s a grandmother to four (so far) and looks forward to corrupting many more in the years to come.

Jacqueline loves to hear from her readers, you can find her at www.jacqpaige.webs.com , www.jacqpaige.blogspot.ca  or http://magicseasonsbooks.blogspot.ca