New Release! “Ghostly Interference” by Jan Sikes @JanSikes3 #WritingCommunity #newrelease #mustread #newage #runes #soldier #ghosts #romance @wildrosepress

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Jan Sikes is an author whose books I’ve read and loved! It’s no exaggeration to say I’m excited to have her here today to share her new release, “Ghostly Interference.” Please join me in welcoming Jan Sikes!

FINDING LOST FAMILY

Hi, Patty! Thank you for allowing me to take over your blog space to talk about my new book release. I am truly grateful. 

In Ghostly Interference, Jag Peters is close to his mom and has been his entire life. His dad passed away when he was in college, and although he’d provided well for them, he never gave Jag the attention or approval he craved.

Jag has always lived a settled conservative life, so you can imagine the shock of finding out the man who had raised him was not his biological father. I do not want to give away any spoilers here, but it becomes an integral part of the plot.

Rena Jett had one brother, Sam. Their mother died from a drug overdose when Rena was a baby and they were thrown into the foster care system, as no relatives could be located to take them. 

But Jag is a whiz on the computer. Look what he found!

EXCERPT

His thoughts were on Rena and the night they’d shared. She was more than he’d ever dared to hope or to find in life. Every time he closed his eyes, he could still feel her warm and willing body under him. Her skin like soft fine satin and her dark hair like silk drove him to the brink of madness.

He wanted to give her everything she’d never had…a family, love, and security. An overwhelming urge to look for any existing members of Rena’s family that might still be alive sent him to the search engine. 

Thank goodness, births and deaths were all public records and easy to access. It would be a starting place. He first visited the Travis County website and typed in, ‘Marjorie Irene Jett.’

Options popped up and he clicked on three different ones before finding the right Marjorie Jett. 

The website told him that for five dollars, he could get access to arrest records and other details about her. He immediately paid the money and held his breath while he waited for it to click over. 

There was a picture and even though it was a typical mugshot, other than the blonde hair, he could see an uncanny resemblance between the woman and Rena. The law enforcement record was long but predictable. She’d been first arrested for prostitution in 1975, then other arrests for drugs and theft. 

He scrolled down. 

The record showed three live births to Marjorie Irene Jett in Austin. 

Shock raced through him causing the hairs to stand up on his neck. That meant there was another sibling somewhere. He clicked on the next link that took him to birth records. 

On June 23, 1976, Marjorie Jett gave birth to a son, Riley Austin Samuelson. Odd that he didn’t have the Jett last name. No marriages were recorded for Marjorie. Riley’s birth certificate listed Marjorie as his mother and father, Justin Earl Samuelson. 

His heart pounded. This meant that Rena had another brother out there somewhere. It might cost more money, but he would do his best to track him down and let him know he had a sister.

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Have you ever known someone who discovered they had family they never knew? I can’t say that I have, but both of the characters in Ghostly Interference did. 

It was fun adding that in as a subplot. 

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BOOK BLURB

Jag Peters has one goal in his quiet comfortable life—to keep his karma slate wiped clean. A near-miss crash with a candy apple red Harley threatens to upend his safe world. He tracks down the rider to apologize properly. Slipping into a seedy biker bar, he discovers the rider isn’t a “he”, it’s a “she”, a dark-haired beauty.

Rena Jett is a troubled soul, who lives in a rough world. She wants no part of Jag’s apology, but even while she pushes him away, she is attracted to him. When he claims to see a ghost—her brother—can she trust him? And could her brother’s final gift, a magical rune stone with the symbol for “happily ever after” have the power to heal her wounds and allow opposites to find common ground—perhaps even love?

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59 thoughts on “New Release! “Ghostly Interference” by Jan Sikes @JanSikes3 #WritingCommunity #newrelease #mustread #newage #runes #soldier #ghosts #romance @wildrosepress”

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  10. Hi, Robbie. Thanks for stopping by and commenting. Wow! That would be quite a shock, but obviously Dean is a good man and loves you so as you say it didn’t matter at that point. Thank you for sharing!

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  20. Great post Jan. I did find someone I’d never met before after doing a DNA test. I found a first cousin and one of her aunts or uncles would be my grandparents. My dad was adopted. The funny thing was my cousin was a writer too. So I guess I found where that came from…lol.
    Thanks for hosting Patty!

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    • Thanks for stopping by, Denise! How cool to find long lost relatives. We were contacted by my husband’s cousin from the UK, someone he didn’t know existed until that point. He visited and it was surprising how many parallels existed in their lives.

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  29. I knew of a man whose father. His father was in WWI, fell in love and married a woman from England. She came to the states with him after the war. They had two children, a boy and a girl. The marriage didn’t last and the woman returned to the UK with the daughter. It was after the boy was grown that he discovered he had a sister.

    Enjoying Jan’s tour. Thanks for hosting today, Patty.

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  31. Hi Patty, Hi Jan,
    Yes, I do know several people who have sought their dads. Especially here in Germany, France, in fact of all of Europe, there are kids who were born from Soldiers who went back to their home country after their deployment and left their illegitimate babies behind them. I know of three cases. One is a woman who lives in my village. She misses that she doesn’t know who her father is. Another is a young man who was put in an orphanage. The parents that adopted him were people I got to know.
    I don’t think people realize the pain they leave in a baby when they desert them. That’s my opinion.

    Patty, thank you for hosting Jan.
    Jan, thank you that you didn’t say much about the subplot. I hate to read books when I already know what is going to happen. It takes the suspense away.

    You all have a nice fourth Advent.
    Shalom aleichem,
    Pat Garcia

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