My latest release The Bride, The Groom, And The Ghost is a gothic paranormal thriller. Here I have weaved the paranormal tale around a very real humanitarian issue gripping the world silently. Humans across the globe united or divided, do remember you share this one world with all humans across the globe. Open your eyes today so you see all the discrimination your neighbors are facing. If you close your eyes to the problems, you won’t see when the problem you closed your eyes to has arrived upon your own doors. Ageism is one such discriminatory act we the humans must not ignore and help one another through. This act will come and knock on your doors soon as we all are traveling toward becoming an elderly person.
Ageism, the discriminating act, is not coming toward us but we are all walking into the camp of ageism if we do not act accordingly now. My gothic novel was created with this message as I believe fictional characters are not fictional anymore after they have awakened within the pages of a book.
As an author, I strive to find the connection between you the human and my soul as I pen to paper my novels.
My pen creates characters going through the obstacles we the humans walk through in our world. I walked upon the path you have found yourself lonely and struggling upon as I see your struggles through my characters. I place these characters in my gothic world as there they live eternally. I have created an immortal world where immortal beings are taking care of us the mortals. My latest release is one such story where a humanitarian crisis brews through a paranormal gothic tale. Today, let’s walk through my latest book The Bride, The Groom, And The Ghost.
An invisible thunderstorm brews through the world of The Bride, The Groom, And The Ghost. A world where lonely tears are spread, where the silent painful cries of a dead ghost bride go unheard by all. She asks why you fear the dead and not the living who did the wrong for not all dead are bad as not all living are good. In this book, you will fear the demon and realize even in the afterworld like in the living world, there is good and bad.
In this book, you will find hope.
You will see even when all is gone, the glitter of hope is still found. In my books, you will find the strong guiding hands are there to pick up the shaking scared hands. For where there is no hope, there we find immortal characters giving us hope, bringing a smile onto your face today and your grandchildren’s face in the future. Through the pages, you are all tied to one another eternally.
I have created characters who talk for you through different humanitarian crises.
Through paranormal gothic tales, I have penned immortal stories that will live on even beyond our earthly existence. In my gothic world, my immortal characters fight for human rights. They travel time to fix what went wrong. They help the departed travel through the tunnel of life to be reborn once again, to have a second chance in making right what they could not in one life. This is how and where my gothic thriller The Bride, The Groom, And The Ghost took birth.
Through the pages of this book, you will find yourselves in New Orleans, Louisiana, a city a lot of you had planned to travel to, yet could not afford, or make time to go there.
Now you can through this book. You will land in New Orleans, Louisiana. You will travel from 1864 to the present time. Hold on to your seats as you travel through the amazing city known also as The Big Easy, through a gothic paranormal thriller.
Walk into a Victorian house that sits overlooking the great Mississippi River. The blissful sight changes, however, as the thriller begins when the bride travels time from the nineteenth century and enters her past-life groom’s twenty-first-century house. Time changes and people change, yet the memories and the feelings the departed hold on to never change.
Even though time changed, the same house, the same landscape, and the same trees were still standing as the bride of the nineteenth century entered. Everything through the wheels of time moved on yet her groom was still facing discrimination that had touched him centuries ago. He was in another body facing not racial discrimination but ageism. The problem was he could not see her, nor did he remember her even though she still roamed around dressed as his bride!
She realized the beautiful house filled with flowering vines was sitting on the most haunted part of the great Mississippi River where her worst enemy, her worst nightmare, too was waiting for her as he too had been reborn as a demon.
A world has been created with the bride and the groom where they needed a third person to be there and see them both to be able to tie the separated couple, in a knot.
Yet how do a ghost bride and a living groom unite in a world where they are fighting ageism while their worst enemy, a dark demon, swims around their backyard, the great Mississippi River?
Three is not always a crowd as the couple find out when they meet Aurelius van Phillip, a son of the famous Kasteel Vrederic family. In my world of tales, the Kasteel Vrederic family members always arrive as within their world everything that is impossible is possible.
My fictional characters of the Kasteel Vrederic series are now not just characters but are immortal.
Come travel through this gothic thriller and I promise you too will believe everything is possible as long as we all believe in hope. The poem I have written at the end when one of the characters found himself lost as he never believed in any faith or religion. That’s when he found out it mattered not that he did not know who, where, or in which house God was as God says to him through this blissful poem, “NEVER FEAR, FOR I AM HERE.” The complete poem is in the book.
Read the poem and feel and know it matters not where or how you are for God knows where and how you are. Even though you have lost all hope, He has not lost hope in you or for you.
Through paranormal gothic novels, I have brought back to you all, hope. I have given you a book you will read and reread over and over again. This book will be immortal like my characters who are not only fictional characters as one of my readers just sent me the following note.
“Dear Ann Marie, I believe in the Kasteel Vrederic family members. They seriously make me feel like I actually belong too. I call them in my mind and ask myself what they would do or say if they were here. I go back to the books whenever I just need a break. They are real people, and I don’t like it when someone says they are fictional.”
That’s part of the letter, but I believe she is right and to the point, as my characters are real. As soon as my fictional characters are created, they forever become real and are immortalized through the pages of my books.
Now on the subject of ageism, I know this is a very serious situation a lot of our human family members have found themselves within.
If you are facing this as you are young or elderly, or middle aged, this is something we could all resolve by traveling through their shoes. For if you are young or old, you will travel through this stage through time. So do something about this and let’s in union fight to stop these discriminatory behaviors by saying no to the practice of ageism.
Remember the bride, the groom, and the ghost had to fight ageism even in their paranormal gothic world. Feel for them and be their friend as you become the helping hands and join in to end ageism.
Another reader of all my books just sent me a note saying she is going through the toughest time of her life. She could not read the book for this reason as she can’t focus on anything other than her current nightmare. However, she is reading the poem, “NEVER FEAR, FOR I AM HERE” a couple of times every day.
I pray you my dear, may you get the strength, courage, patience, and hope from this poem. I hope we the humans can unitedly pray for one another through our love for one another.
To all of you please be there for one another and let’s not create a distance through discriminatory acts but let’s all create the bridge of union through love and understanding for all humans across this world.
I hope you have now found yourself taking a break in the gothic world of The Bride, The Groom, And The Ghost!
This is a book you will gift a friend, for all tales become immortal and all characters come to life when you share it with a friend. I have brought my characters to life through my pen. Forever they will roam around the streets of New Orleans, as you too will enjoy them when you read this novel with a friend and then you can go travel through New Orleans, as you will then travel with the immortal characters of this book.
Enjoy the novel and know all the characters are just not a character but are as real as you and me through my pen and your reading experience. Your reading journey today will be immortal as you read the story today and your future generations read the book in the future. Your reading journey will create a bridge between you and them. Maybe leave a sweet note in the book for them to find your messages throughout time. Be immortal through your messages to them as you travel through The Bride, The Groom, And The Ghost.
Happy Reading!
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