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Authors: Julia Barrett,J. W. Manus,Winterheart Designs
About the Author
J. R. Barrett writes romantic suspense, science fiction romance, paranormal romance, and the occasional contemporary. You can find her and her other works on Amazon under the names J. R. Barrett and Julia Rachel Barrett. For additional information visit her Website:
Julia Barrett’s World
The Soul Series
There is an underground stream in Judaism. One of the concepts in that stream is the transmigration of souls. The men who practiced Kabbalah believed a soul could migrate from one body to another, from one plane of existence to another. Hasidic Judaism has no issue with either reincarnation or the transmigration of souls.
Much of our folklore involves the reincarnated souls of our greatest saints and teachers. In both our written and oral tradition we tell stories of angels walking among human beings, speaking with human beings, guiding and protecting us.
As a child I heard countless
bubbe-mitzes
(grandmother’s tales) from my own Baubi, stories of angels, dybbuks (demons), ghosts and lost souls. Thus it was no great hardship to imagine my hero in
Incorporeal
,
Natan de Manua
, as a human being, a ghost and an unwitting guardian angel.
It took no great leap of faith on my part to picture an angel,
Ze’ev
(
Wolf
), my hero in
In the Flesh
, and feel his loneliness, his longing to experience the pain and the passion of a human being. It was easy to continue Ze’ev’s Pinnochio-like transition into a real man,
Lucas Jennings
, in
Stay
.
These are the three stories in
The Soul Series
:
Stay
Sara Wise is sick of ghosts. They’ve haunted her since she was a child, destroying her family, endangering her life. When an incorporeal being appears in her shower, she curses him soundly and orders him out, but this ghost is sticky. Not only does he invade her shower, he moves into her home, invading her dreams, sharing her bed. The reluctant Sara finds herself falling in love with a dead man.
Despite Sara’s objections, Natan de Manua isn’t permitted to leave. Protecting the woman is both his penance and his means to redemption. She’s not easy to protect, she fights him nearly every step of the way, except in her bed. Nathan may have come to regain his soul, but instead he risks losing his heart.
Lightning in the middle of a blizzard? Dr. Sydney Blake has read about it, but this is the first time in all her life she’s experienced it. Has her truck been struck? Blinded by the flash, she slams on the brakes and dives from the driver’s seat, right into a snow drift.
As a shivering Syd gropes to her feet, she keeps her eyes shut tight, praying she didn’t actually see what she thinks she saw in that flash of light… a golden giant standing smack dab in the middle of the road. No way. Not possible. Or is it?
Other Works
Writing as Julia Rachel Barrett
Captured
∗Winner of the 2011 Bookseller’s Best First Book Award∗
One Four All (a ménage)
Writing as J. R. Barrett
My Everything
∗Winner of the 2011 Lorie’s Best Published Single Title Mainstream Romantic Suspense∗
“You Might Just Get It”
(short story)
“The Artist”
(short story)
“Is It Spicy”
(short story)
“Liz and Me”
(short story)
Poems of Love and Hate
(poetry)