Facebook is still good for something! It reminded me that Said The Demon To Little Miss Eva is eight whole years old. Eight! Walking to school by itself and doing homework and watching Hollyoaks. Please don’t ask me where the time has gone!
Said the Demon was my first foray into horror! I’ve been obsessed with the supernatural ever since I visited the Tower of London and was told that Anne Boleyn’s ghost wanders the corridors at night. I’d haunt the fuck out of the Tower of London too if my husband accused me of incest and treason because I had the temerity to give birth to a girl... anyways! The frisson of fear; the kiss of cold on the back of one’s neck, the rake of icicles inside your stomach... all those sensations have been my theme park, my rollercoaster (let’s be honest Thorpe Park ain’t cheap!) I remember seeing The Blair Witch Project and having a job interview with Topshop the next day. I. Had. Not. Slept. Safe to say my wife, red eyed distress did not earn my a job. Probably best as retail was not my best work! I’ve always had an affinity for what goes bump in the night and nothing to do with bump n grind. I suppose it comes from being taught from an early age that demons are real and they will test you if you wander the desert for forty days.
It’s not for the faint of heart - there is an actual demon in this story. Eva Mensah is freakin’ haunted out of her home! Eva is an empath and that ability is probably conversely one of the most human and most draining ability to have. To feel and understand every emotion, as if you experience it yourself and to get through day to day... it would not be me. I have to have some empathy in my day job (I’d be a robot otherwise) and it can be so overwhelming. Imagine having nowhere to put those feelings and becoming a beacon to evil. Not what you want in your first home in London overlooking the Thames.
I gave Eva a happy-ish ending (I’m a romance author it’s gonna have a happy ending so not a spoiler!) but the ending I gave her didn’t ring complete which is why she got a sequel. We all know babies don’t solve things. As an empath, having a baby would only make Eva an even bigger beacon to evil. So it felt absolutely natural to give Eva and her man Gabriel a second go.
I never say never, as there’s nothing stopping baby Elijah from becoming teenage Elijah and causing yet more demonic shifts (that’s so Raven vision taking over me!!!!!) so don’t be surprised if Miss Eva pops up again. If you’ve never given her the chance because horror isn’t your thing - romance is my thing. Give it the old college try. See if you fancy a buy!
Last in this ramble is a thank you to Evangeline. She helped me exercise my own ghost in the telling of these tales and I feel all the better for letting that madness go. Couldn’t expect any more from a true empath!
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