Katherine Hastings

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They murdered the man I wanted. Now I have to stop him becoming a monster. I’m Annella Mackay. I don’t lose fights, and I don’t lose my heart. To the modern world, I’m a party girl with expensive tastes and a weakness for hot bartenders. To history, I’m Maighread Mackay, the original vampire warrior and the Werewolf Slayer. So yes, the irony is spectacular. Owen was meant to be a distraction, a gorgeous human with a voice like velvet and eyes that saw straight through my armour. Then my enemies decided to make a point. A rival clan murdered him just to send me a message. Only Owen didn’t stay dead. He woke up on my floor with my blood in his veins and a secret that turned my world inside out. Owen wasn’t human at all. He was born a werewolf, the sworn enemy of my kind. Now he’s something new. Something stronger. And he has no idea how to control the hunger raging under his skin. I have one job: teach the man I love how to curb his thirst before he destroys everyone I care about. If I fail, I’ll have to do the one thing that might actually break me. Eternal Light continues the Immortal Hearts series, a paranormal vampire romance. If you love a lethal, sassy heroine, forbidden love, vampire and werewolf twists, high-stakes danger, and a touch of humor, you’re in the right place. Written by USA Today Bestselling Author, Katherine Hastings. _______________________________________ Praise for the Immortal Hearts series: ????? “This book contained so much more than just a vampire romance.” ????? “All the characters were so unique that it made the whole series so gripping.” ????? “This story could have been a movie.” ????? “Love paranormal romance with a bit of humor and a lot of passion? Get this book now!” ????? “It was exciting, page-turning, sweet, and romantic, with a nice amount of drama, trouble, and emotions thrown in to keep you on your toes.” ????? “It was romantic, funny, and full of obstacles which made it an interesting read.”

I sold my blood for millions. I never expected to risk my heart. I’m twenty-nine, broke, and picking up the pieces after a marriage that left me with crushing debt and worse instincts. Working nights at a Chicago club, I spot Aiden in a shadowy booth—designer suit, ice-blue eyes, and a gaze that won’t let go. When I get fired, the mysterious stranger offers a lifeline. Five million dollars for five years of my life as his live-in blood donor. The catch is simple: I move into his secluded estate. It’s meant to be professional and temporary, a clean transaction that fixes my future. Until I learn what Aiden really is. No capes. No coffins. Just ancient laws, ruthless enemies, and a world that closes ranks when a human knows too much. Aiden isn’t the monster I thought a vampire would be. He’s sharp, dangerously protective, and far too easy to talk to. The banter comes fast, the chemistry hits hard, and the pull between us feels less like choice and more like fate. But this bargain wasn’t made for romance. It was made for survival, and danger is already circling the estate. Will this deal save me… or bind me to a vampire’s world for good? Into the Light launches the Immortal Hearts series, a paranormal vampire romance. If you love billionaire bargains, forced proximity, and fated-mates chemistry, plus a touch of humor and a refreshing twist on vampire lore, you’re in the right place. Written by USA Today Bestselling Author, Katherine Hastings. ______________________________________________ Praise for the Immortal Hearts series: ????? “This story could have been a movie.” ????? “If you want a vampire romance that will touch you, make you laugh, and make your heart race from all the passion, then this is your next must-read romance novel.” ????? “Love paranormal romance with a bit of humor and a lot of passion? Get this book now!” ????? “From page one, this book drew me in.” ????? “This book contained so much more than just a vampire romance.” ????? “I absolutely loved this book!! I couldn’t put it down! It had me laughing, smiling, and even crying!” ????? “It was exciting, page-turning, sweet, and romantic, with a nice amount of drama, trouble, and emotions thrown in to keep you on your toes.” ????? “It was romantic, funny, and full of obstacles which made it an interesting read.”

Set in a vibrant American city, this paranormal cozy mystery blends FBI crime scenes, heavenly hijinks, and spectral sleuthing in a race that stretches from the mortal world to the gates of Heaven. Death was not supposed to derail their fun. Mabel and Millie have been causing havoc together for decades, and they are not about to let a little thing like death stop them. Bored with Heaven’s endless perfection, these two lifelong troublemakers hatch a plan to sneak back to Earth for some good old-fashioned haunting. But their spectral shenanigans take an unexpected turn when they stumble straight into an FBI investigation for a vicious serial killer. Enter Sarah Sadler, a brilliant but struggling FBI agent who can see and hear them thanks to a recent near-death experience that almost wrecked her career. As the body count rises, Millie and Mabel realise that solving crimes is far more interesting than causing trouble, especially when they have unique ghostly talents to help Agent Sadler crack the case. With time running out and lives on the line, this unlikely trio must learn to work together across the boundaries of life and death to catch a murderer before they strike again. Perfect for fans of Mary Janice Davidson’s Undead series and the sharp humour of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum series, this afterlife mystery blends laugh-out-loud mischief, female friendship, and fast-paced serial killer suspense with a supernatural twist.

Edited with an Introduction by Katherine Hastings Devreaux Baker Ellen Bass Elizabeth Bradfield Janine Canan Maxine Chernoff Susan Cohen Elizabeth J. Coleman Gillian Conoley Lucille Lang Day Sharon Doubiago Susan Kelly-DeWitt Camille T. Dungy Iris Jamahl Dunkle Sandy Eastoak Terry Ehret Annie Finch Molly Fisk Miriam Bird Greenberg Judy Halebsky Elizabeth Herron Brenda Hillman Jane Hirshfield Jodi Hottel Maya Khosla Lynne Knight Danusha Lam ris Kathleen Lynch Mary Mackey Colleen McElroy Jane Mead Toni Mirosevich Rusty Morrison Gwynn O'Gara Connie Post Kim Shuck Hannah Stein Melissa Stein Jennifer K. Sweeney Julia Vose Laura Walker Gillian Wegener Arisa White Toni Wilkes Leonore Wilson Kathleen Winter Pui Ying Wong

Katherine Hastings' poems play with consciousness on many levels. Nature, literature, and human experience catch memorably within the threads of their dense and startling webs. Annie Finch Shakespeare and Stein Walk into a Bar is animated by the two most rewarding and replenishing of poetic forces: dexterous formal diversity and a fierce, unflinching searching. "Where to go from here?" the book begins, lifting us through "the world we've left to ourselves" and singing us at last to the still point where "We, too, dissolve" with "all of it finding its way - somewhere." Shakespeare and Stein Walk into a Bar is more than a collection of poems; it is a quest fulfilled by destination. Malachi Black Dear William Shakespeare, an heiress has appeared Historians can't trace the Bard's descendants too far after his daughters, but a Shakespearean sonneteer has mysteriously reappeared in the form of Katherine Hastings and her wildly compelling sonnets. What eloquence What originality And what poems for the ages " Lee Slonimsky Whether she is exploring memory or embracing loss or love, Katherine Hastings so fully inhabits these poems that the reader is allowed to surrender to her deft use of language and embark on a journey of the soul, filled with a radiance of spirit that transcends the everyday routines of life, "..last night in moonlight, long fingers/of trees signed their language/ the way deaf women sing...", and "There is nowhere to go/but here on a corner with the unblessed/supplementing Social Security, /our shadows merged on hard pavement..." Finally, these are poems that offer a luminous stillness, mysterious yes, but filled with exquisitely articulated moments that are pitch-perfect. Devreaux Baker

If there's such a thing as fierce Buddhism, Katherine Hastings' Nighthawks finds it. Here is nature in minutely observed, embroidered detail, juxtaposed with terse and stark observations keyed from Rexroth's "holiness of the real." Hastings is unafraid: she writes fearlessly of subjects such as the slaughter of children at an elementary school in Connecticut, the death of a young black man in a subway station, and opens a brave and unblinking lens on a lover's cancer. In backdrop, though, always: the steadiness of nature flourishing: brilliant colors amid the unanswered questions. Gerald Fleming Rooted in what Hastings calls the "momentary forever," these marvelous poems, so rich with detail and so full of duende, explore the paradoxes of transience. Yes, the poet reminds us: "The alarm is set and ticking" for each least thing in the living world: "A boy made in the image of Lorca; turkey vultures...with wings like shredded violins." Still, the "eyes of the world" (eyes of the poet ) "are always hungry..."; so the poet must read every "...tune placed in her] beak// where the lust of one tear holds/ every note of joy, of sorrow/ trembling under the stars". And these new poems do insist on inhabiting hard realities-a beloved's cancer diagnosis; the public murder of an innocent young man by a police officer-but also, in "Perseid From a Park Bench," two lovers wish on a meteor falling through the night sky, and Hastings reminds us: "We humans do this, place hope on a ball of dust passing through a comet's tail." Susan Kelly-DeWitt These poems capture a double exposure where earth and sky meld to map what is close and what is seemingly out of reach. Hastings' horizon shifts from the reality of earth bound oceans to the celestial ocean where we swim in a sea of stars. Like ancient astronomers, she sees connections often missed by the casual eye. She becomes in effect a soothsayer of stars and taps into the music of their stillness as they witness the coincidental paths we take in our lives, the stars above us "an angel apiece/burning so far out of reach". Colleen McElroy

How refreshing to come across a book like Katherine Hastings' marvelous Cloud Fire, rich and verdant in formal experiment and range. Mixing lyrics, narratives, curses, blessings, spells, and unabashed love poems, the work is hard-won and honest, generous and rigorous. In poem after poem Katherine Hastings casts her ever-vigilant, observing eye, sharp as it is poignant. Her deepest concern seems our perilous locale and planet: "My city whose streams are rock doves and parrots/ whose bright arm is a spring board for love and suicides" and yet "we breathe here better than anywhere, distressed." Gillian Conoley Lovely... it's your veiled history. Lawrence Ferlinghetti For Katherine Hastings, "The mirror is a lake of longing." Her poems are told us by "a woman with a moon in her chest"; their surprising images embrace close observation, deeply dramatized love and losses, and have the power of crossing boundaries of spirit to reveal truths otherwise unseen. Daniel Hoffman, U. S. Poet Laureate, 1973-74 Katherine Hastings is a poet whose words embody light; she is the ambassador of luminescence to American poetry today. It is no wonder that clouds catch on fire in this magnificent and transformative collection. In poems like "Whittenberg", where an atmosphere of light invades and reshapes, "Pushing off from the Wall", where white cells of water, jewel-lined/undulate amoeba-shapes, and "Twister" clear blue prophecy is proclaimed. In "Bird. Song. Knife. Heart" (No one saw her glide among the lake or river/a radiance wrapped in flame), and "Mother" ("Light transfers from the formless/smatters across the given/world"), and so many others, Hastings truly succeeds in evoking a continent of light on radiant pages ... There is no voice like hers I wholeheartedly recommend Cloud Fire, poems that will illumine your consciousness both while reading and long, long afterwards. Lee Slonimsky