Welcome to 31 Days of Halloween Reads, where A Well Read Woman Blog will be presenting horror and dark fiction novels, book reviews, interviews, guest posts, and more with dark fiction and horror authors, daily!
Today’s featured Author is Pete Barber!
Born into a blue-collar family in Liverpool, England, Pete immigrated to the US in the early 90s and settled in North Carolina.
After surviving near-death experiences at ages six and eighteen, he led a haphazard life, putting bread on the table as a plumber, computer programmer, salesperson, marketing executive, hotel operator, real-estate developer, and llama farmer.
Pete writes fast-paced fiction that makes people think–what if?
Pete’s debut thriller–NanoStrike–has over 300 5-STAR reviews on Amazon US. Love Poison, a suspenseful romance was published September 2014. When A Warrior Comes Home followed in March 2015. MAYA, November 2016… more to come!
If you like your dark fiction with a touch of sci-fi, check out Maya: Symbiogenesis Book One! I love the book cover of the young girl with the haunting violet eyes. — (Her eyes actually inspired a published story of my own with a clan of witches who all share violet eyes, from when I beta read an early draft of Maya!) Like the young girl in the story, there is something intimidating about her stare. It almost follows you…
Check it out:
Hours before doctors plan to switch off her premature daughter’s life-support systems, Lauren risks all and injects her baby with a stolen experimental drug. The last-resort treatment transforms Maya’s genetic fingerprint.Â
While Lauren struggles to disguise the reason for her daughter’s miraculous recovery, Maya develops unique abilities that may signal a new, more hope-filled future for humankind, or perhaps sound its death knell.Â
Book Details
MAYA, SYMBIOGENESIS BOOK ONE
Kindle Edition, 228 pages
Maya and Joshua’s mother, Patsy, was beaten and left for dead, her two unborn twins assaulted before leaving their mother’s body. In a last ditch effort by Aunt Lauren to save Maya who is moments away from being taken off life support, Lauren injects her niece with a stolen, unregulated experimental medication, and hopes for the best.
Maya, Symbiogenesis Book One, is a fantasy science fiction novel about a medical anomaly, a miracle child, and a woman’s love and devotion for her family. Boiled down, Maya is about medical advances and their consequences.